How to work effectively with your ACLs and ACL groups

An aclEZ best practices webcast

Learn about aclEZ best practices in discovering, analyzing and resolving issues with your ACLs and ACL groups. This includes:

• ACL management on steroids (mass-editing and deployment of ACLs)
• How to quickly overview server-wide ACL security and find & resolve problems on the spot
• How to clean up your ACLs to ensure a well-organized and easy to oversee environment
• How to work with roles on a mass scale
• Deep diving in ACL groups to get an understanding of who can access what on your server
• Dissecting your NAB group structure to understand any key user and group policies in place
• Cleaning up the NAB groups to ensure their members are relevant and up to date within your organization
• Managing global ACL settings like Administration server, enforcement of consistent ACLs, etc…

Outline of presentation

ACL Management

• Main Grid (00:05:02)
• Check & change Default Access (00:08:10)
• Add new ACL entries to multiple databases (00:11:10)
• Example: deploying generic ACLs in Marketing (00:14:20)
• Looking at mail files for inconsistencies (00:15:38)
• Old server & Admin names in mail file ACLs (00:20:15)
• Analyzing entries for patterns and differentiating between different kinds of entries
• Example: changing mailbox owner access (00:23:10)
• Restriction System & Key Depository Database, or how to make some aclEZ features available for certain members of a team (00:27:45)

Working with ACL Groups (Nested Groups)

• Group Expander Button (00:30:40)
• Expanding Nested Groups and understanding the main Grid (00:33:30)

NAB Group Navigator

• Tree layout (00:43:41)
• Example: integrating a NEW Chilean subsidiary (00:47:17)
• Grid layout (00:49:30)
• Red-coloured entries & NAB Presence Checker (00:56:05)
• Assignment of Group Memberships (00:60:48)

Role Management and other features

• Managing roles on the entire server (00:63:00)
• Roles panel
• Example: assigning a new role in all Sales Forecast databases (00:66:45)

Global ACL properties (00:69:00)

• ACL History (00:69:20)
• Administration Server (00:62:29)
• Mail Owner (00:69:46)