Change NTFS permissions on all objects in a folder without using inheritance
Question:
I have a file share with approximately 500 folders and I am looking to make the NTFS permissions on all of the folders consistant. However, I don’t want to change the root folder’s permissions to allow inheritance to it’s subfolders. Is there a way to automate the process of changing ownership of all the folders in the share with using inheritance or do I manually have do it on each folder?
Solution:
1) Set Administrators on the root as FC
2) create dirs. folder above
3) run the command to turn off inheritance and copy: now, admins are FC on all
4) Open an excel spreadsheet
5) Put the DIR names into column B and D
6) put:xcacls.vbs c:\(rest of path, minus username) into A
7) put “/g domain\” into column C
put “:f” into E
So, if Bob is a user (and the DIR name)
xcacls.vbs c:\users\ bob /g domain\ bob :f
Drag/copy columns A / C / and E to fill out the spreadsheet for as many users as you have.
copy this, and paste into notepad
In notepad, do a search/replace so that there is no space between \users\ and bob,
and so that there is no space between domain\ adn bob and :f
(replace domain with your domain name of course)
save as .bat, and run.
Done!
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