Case Study: South West Nova District Health Authority achieves easier Active Directory and file permission management with Visual Click Software

South West Nova District Health Authority Uses DSRAZOR for Windows to Manage Multiple Active Directory Domains

South West Nova District Health Authority, one of nine district health authorities in Nova Scotia, needed a better way to manage Active Directory domains and file permissions after migrating from Novell to Microsoft Windows. With more than 1,300 staff serving 62,000 residents across three counties, administrators were spending hours auditing security and couldn’t easily see file system rights in one view. Visual Click Software’s DSRAZOR for Windows was brought in to restore the permissions tracking and reporting capabilities they had lost.

Visual Click Software implemented DSRAZOR for Windows to automate AD and NTFS security audits, stale account cleanup, and file-system reporting. The result was faster permission management, reduced server-space waste, and less risk of human error during tasks like consolidating two file servers into one. South West Nova District Health Authority also reported major time savings by avoiding manual scripting and Excel work, and Visual Click support could deliver custom reports in as little as 30 minutes.

South West Nova District Health Authority

Twila Hillier

Network Analyst