I have come across a domain I need to migrate from Win2k ==> Win2k3 but before we do that we have come across a big problem with the current file server. It has not been maintained properly and the permissions are randomly assigned all over the place..... & not documented either. Some places groups have been used some places users...etc...also within shares permissions have been shared out to random users and map drives manually to some shares...The customer is also not at all happy with the file structure and the Directors have been complaining about it since 1 year.
So the File server has turned out to be a big problem for now & both parties feel this is the right time to invest in a few man days and get it sorted.... The domain is in such a mess that both parties have agreed it is not worth migrating and they are starting from scratch on the new domain i.e. Win2k3. The plan is to simply export the users and send them to HR for approval and once done we will import them to the new domain i.e. this will result in ensuring only valid users are created. They have 12 Administrator accounts currently out of which 5 users don't even work for them any more and the accounts are still enabled !!! But for File server what has been agreed is we need to export all the permissions [ Share + NTFS ] dump it to an excel file for each folder [ i.e. even if they are not shared ] within the file structure. Once this audit is complete we need to than present this information to the IT manager and restructure the data in correct shares with new set of drive letters and get this problem sorted using groups as opposed to individual users. So what I am looking for a script / tool of some kind which will dump this data to a excel file with information as follows.... user name / group name *** folder / file location *** permission assigned *** Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you all all in advance for taking th Stu ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
