Welcome to DatAnywhere Powershell Module

All, welcome to this powershell project dedicated to Varonis DatAnywhere http://www.varonis.com/products/datanywhere/.

A few month ago, my company decided to buy Varonis DatAnywhere to allow our users to access shared folders from anywhere. The big advantage od DatAnywhere, compared to competitors, is that fact that the data remains on the file servers or on the NAS ! There is absolutely no need to copy the data into a second system that will allow the sharing.

However, allowing users to share their data needs configuration for everyone. As I'm working in healthcare, not every user has the computer knowledge to do such configuration. So, as IT department, we decided that we would configure DatAnywhere parameters for the users.

Even if the task is quite easy with the web interface of DatAnywhere, we needed a tool to be able to automate the things. Hopefully fo us, Varonis provides a CLI interface for their product.

So the first version of this powershell module is a wrapper that leverages the DatAnywhere CLI. This version is available in the download section. Even if it is a working script, it requires all the DatAnywhere CLI files, and the performances are not very efficient.
You can test it. Presently, we use it in production. But you should consider it as a Proof Of Concept.
Indeed, I'm working on a second version of the script that will be based on the REST APIs. This second version already showed an amazing increase in performances.

I'll keep you informed of the evolution of this second version...