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suren424
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Sep 24, 2020
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Powershell script to enable inheritance for the folders created in NTFS share

Hi,   We have a NTFS Share folder wherein we are creating all the users' homeDirectories (homefolder) within the enterprise using Oracle identity management tool. Homefolder creation is working goo...
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    farismalaeb
    Sep 30, 2020

    suren424 

    You can use this example

     

    $x=Get-ItemProperty -Path C:\MyFolder\123\456
Write-Host "The Parent is " -ForegroundColor Green -NoNewline
$x.Parent.Name

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farismalaeb
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Sep 24, 2020

suren424 

Regardless,

The Modules are make to ease and make common tasks easier and possible.

Have you tried the code I wrote,

Give it a try on a test folder and see the result, I test it from my side and its working fine, this is a native code, so no need for any module or anything, just copy and paste and thats it.

Replace the Value or the $Path with any folder and give it a try. if it work (and should) you can add it with a foreach loop. Just try the code on a test folder and post the result back

 

 

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suren424
Copper Contributor
Sep 25, 2020

Thank you  farismalaeb

 

When i tried the below script , it didn't set enable inheritance for the child items in 'OIMShare' folder.

 

$path='\\WINDOWS-2S9Q\OIMShare\'
$Permission=get-acl -Path $path
$Permission.SetAccessRuleProtection($False,$true)
Set-Acl -Path $path -AclObject $Permission

 

 

But, it worked when i ran this script.

 

$path='\\WINDOWS-2S9QPLV\OIMShare\abc\'
$Permission=get-acl -Path $path
$Permission.SetAccessRuleProtection($False,$true)
Set-Acl -Path $path -AclObject $Permission

 

We have lot parent folders like 'OIMShare' (OIMShare1, OIMShare2,....) which many child items in it.

 

Thanks in advance.

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    farismalaeb
    Iron Contributor
    Sep 25, 2020

    suren424 

     

    Yes sure it wont work in all folder as its not part of a loop

    This is the full code

    $allFolders=Get-ChildItem -Path C:\MySource -Directory -Recurse
    foreach ($Folder in $allFolders){
    $Permission=get-acl -Path $Folder.FullName
    $Permission.SetAccessRuleProtection($False,$true)
    Set-Acl -Path $Folder.FullName -AclObject $Permission
    }

    You only need to modify the path of the root and the script will do the same

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      suren424
      Copper Contributor
      Sep 25, 2020

      Thank youfarismalaeb

       

      Your script worked. I tried improvising your script to include multiple shares, but it's throwing below error(attached screeshot).  Am i missing anything in the script ?

       

       

      Script :

      $the_shares = ('\\WINDOWS-2S9QPLV\OIMShare\', '\\WINDOWS-2S9QPLV\OIMShare1\')
      $allFolders=Get-ChildItem -Path $the_shares -Directory -Recurse
      foreach ($Folder in $allFolders){
      $Permission=get-acl -Path $Folder.FullName
      $Permission.SetAccessRuleProtection($False,$true)
      Set-Acl -Path $Folder.FullName -AclObject $Permission
      }

       

       

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        farismalaeb
        Iron Contributor
        Sep 26, 2020

        suren424 

        The error is stating that the path not found.

        Make sure that you have the access to that directory and/or its really exist \\Windows-2S9QPLV\OIMShare1

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