Security Explorer 9.9

Quest® Security Explorer® has a robust interface that adapts to the explorer module you select so you are able to focus on the task at hand. In this chapter, you will find information about the overall user interface, such as menus, icons, and adjusting the display.

Topics:

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Starting Security Explorer

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Customizing the view

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Completing a process

Starting Security Explorer

To start Security Explorer

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Click Start, point to All Programs | Quest| Security Explorer, and choose Security Explorer.


	NOTE: Users who are not local administrators can start Security Explorer, but the functionality is limited to actions that do not require local administrator rights.

The first time you open Security Explorer®, the Browse tab opens to display three panes. The Navigation pane on the left contains the tree from which you can drill down to objects on your system and the Security Explorer modules available to you. The Objects and Permissions panes are used to further drill down to view the permissions of objects.

Topics:

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Using the Navigation pane

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Using the Objects pane

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Using the Permissions pane

Using the Navigation pane

The Navigation pane on the left contains the tree for the selected module. You can browse the tree and select an object. You can select objects from the local computer, or browse the Network Neighborhood or Active Directory®. You can also group objects into Favorites or Enterprise Scopes. See Managing Favorites and Managing Enterprise Scopes.


	NOTE: NTFS Security only. If you select a network share for which you have no rights to read any resource in that network share, you are presented with a dialog to enter custom credentials. You can save the custom credentials to Windows® Credentials. If you do not save the custom credentials, Security Explorer® uses them until you log off.

The Navigation pane has five tabs.

Table 1. Navigation pane tabs
Tab	Description
Tasks	Display the Home Page for the selected module. You can browse the tree and select tasks from the Home Page, Tool Bar, or Menu Bar. NOTE: The Tasks tab is hidden by default. To view the Tasks tab, select View \| Tasks tab.
Browse	Display the Browse tab where you can view the Navigation tree. Some options on the Tasks tab automatically open the Browse tab.
Reports	When displaying All Management Targets, the Reports tab lists reports available for all modules. You also can select a specific module and select reports from shortcut menus.
Search	Create search criteria to locate specific permissions. Search becomes available when a module is selected. See Using the Browse tab to search.
Status	Display status of current processes. The information is also available on the status bar, which is hidden by default. See Using the status bar.

Security Explorer is organized around modules: NTFS Security, Share Security, Registry Security, Printer Security, Service Security, Task Management, Group and User Management, SharePoint Security, SQL Server Security, Exchange Security, and Active Directory Security. For example, click the Share Security button to manage share permissions or click the Printer Security button to manage printer permissions.

Other components of the main window are optional and can be hidden from view. The Menu Bar and Tool Bar provide options and icons to perform functions in Security Explorer. The Loading Progress Bar displays the progress of loading permissions and allows you to stop the load if necessary.

Using the Objects pane

The Objects pane in the Browse tab displays the contents of the item selected in the Navigation pane. The path to the object displays in the Path box.


	NOTE: If you see in the tree in the Navigation pane, the item was loaded from the cache, which is also indicated by CACHE in the status bar. You can disable the cache indicator by clearing the View indicator when items loaded from cache check box on the Tools \| Options \|Advanced tab. See Setting advanced options.

Table 2. Objects pane tool bar
Button	Description
	Go up one level in the tree displayed in the Navigation pane.
Go	Go to the path displayed in the Path box. SharePoint Security module only. Add the URL displayed in the Path box to the Favorites list.
Set	Set the root node in the Navigation pane based on the path or URL displayed in the Path box.
Reset	Reset the path to the default selection.
Show All	NTFS Security module only. You can filter the list to show only folders or files, show both folders and files, or show no folders or files.