Version History

• 4.2.4
  • Bug Fixes
• 4.2.3
  • Added Cmdlet Get-FileHash2
  • Bug Fixes
• 4.2.1
  • Added the cmdlets Get-NTFSHardLink, New-NTFSHardLink, New-NTFSSymbolicLink
• 4.2
  • Added cmdlets Move-Item2 and Copy-Item2
  • Remove-Item2, Move-Item2 and Copy-Item2 now support the WhatIf and Confirm
• 4.1
  • The Attributes parameter for Get-ChildItem2 works the same like he one on the standard cmdlets Get-ChildItem as requested
  • Remove-NTFSAccess can no remove access from existing Access Control Entries. The old behaviour is still available using the -RemoveSpecific switch parameter
• 4.0
  • The NTFSAccess cmdlets can now work on Security descriptors to allow bulk processes
  • Code cleanup for better performance and maintainability
    Bug Fixes
    * 3.2.3
  • Fixed a bug in GetInheritedFrom that resulted in “Invalid Path” or “Path not found” errors
• 3.2
  • Bugfixing managing auditing
  • Fixed various Bugs reported on CodePlex
• 3.1
  • All cmdlets have the prefix NTFS now. There are aliases for backward compatibility
  • The new version of Get-NTFSEffectivePermission uses AuthzAccessCheck instead of GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl
  • Previous Get-NTFSEffectivePermission cmdlet has been renamed to Get-NTFSEffectivePermissionOld
  • Added FileSystemAuditRule2 to the PowerShell formatters
  • Added InheritedFrom information to FileSystemAuditRule2
• 3.0
  • This version leverages the AlphaFS (http://alphafs.codeplex.com) to work around the MAX_PATH limitation of 260 characters
  • This requires new *-Item commands to be able to discover items with a log path
  • GetChildItem2 (dir2)
  • Get-Item2 (gi2)
  • Remove-Item2 (del2, rm2)
  • For inherited ACEs the InheritedFrom is displayed
  • Generic access rights are supported
  • Performance Improvements
  • Bug Fixes
• 2.4
  • Remove-Access did not remove Deny ACEs when using the pipeline (for example: Import-Csv .\access.txt | Remove-Access)
  • Add-Access did not remove Deny ACEs when using the pipeline (for example: Import-Csv .\access.txt | Add-Access)
  • The parameter Account was undiscoverable when using the pipeline
• 2.3
  • The module now makes full use of the Backup, Restore privilege and TakeOwnership so as an administrator you can edit permissions on objects that you do not have explicitly access to. Privileges are enabled by default if the value ‘EnablePrivileges’ is true in the NTFSSecurity.psd1. The new cmdlets Get, Disable and Enable-Privileges are for manual control.
  • The Path parameter now works consistently
• 2.1
  • Fixed bugs with Set-Owner
  • Added support for also managing auditing (SACL)
• 2.0 Beta
  • A bunch of new commands: Get-SimpleAccess, Get-SimpleEffectiveAccess, Show-SimpleAccess, Show-SimpleEffectiveAccess, Copy-Access
  • All cmdlets are now written in C#
  • Fixed a number of bugs
• 1.3
  • Fixed an issue with parameter handling
  • Now works with PowerShell V3
• 1.2
  • Fixed some issues with path validation
    vFixed documentation bugs
• 1.1
  • Fixed the issue with square brackets in paths
  • Performance improvements
• 1.0
  • Last tests did not reveal any issue. PowerShell has a problem handling files that have square brackets in the file name. Therefore this module inherits the issue.
• 0.9 (Beta)
  • Fixed some bugs
  • Updated documentation
• 0.8 (Beta)
  • Initial Release