SwitchRight SwitchRight - SwitchRight application represents a simple command-line file permission replacement utility for Microsoft Windows
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SwitchRight application represents a simple command-line file permission replacement utility for Microsoft Windows. Large network filesystems will often have an extensive and complex set of file permissions. Major structural changes such as a new Windows file server, a new domain, or a major corporate reorganization may require those permissions to be reset or re-established from scratch. This process can be more than time-consuming: errors while setting permissions can result in critical information being inaccessible, or worse, sensitive information accessible to the wrong people! SwitchRight allows these changes to be made quickly and easily in an automated, rule-based fashion. When using the Microsoft-recommended permission structure (AGLP or UGLP), NTFS permissions are assigned to local groups. Even if a filesystem is transferred to a new system with permissions intact (by restoring from backup or with a utility like Robocopy), the differing local account SIDs will invalidate the permissions. SwitchRight provides a simple two-step solution to this problem by automatically translating local permissions between systems for local groups with the same name. SwitchRight can also simplify any basic permission translation, switching the permissions for any user or group with any other user or group through an entire directory structure.

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