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Import Windows Shared Folder

CA GovernanceMinder's customers are often interested in mapping privileges at a finer level of granularity than that provided by most IdM tools. That is below the level of groups and or profiles. This converter provides this granularity for Windows environments by scanning Windows servers for shared folders, and mapping access rights for those shares to the relevant domain groups and users.

The converter relies on CA GovernanceMinder's Active Directory (AD) converter to bring in AD groups, possibly from multiple AD servers and domains, and users. The converter uses agent-less Windows WMI technology to scan a range of Windows computers and import their shares as resources. It then links them to the above AD users and AD groups (imported as CA GovernanceMinder roles).