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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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    Thanks

     

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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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      suren424
      Copper Contributor
      Sep 30, 2020

      Thank you farismalaeb .

       

      The script worked after changing the path from '\\Windows-2S9QPLV\OIMShare1 to C:\OIMShare1.

       

      Quick question :

      Is there a way to identify the parent folder if we provide the child items in the script. 

       

      Actually, we will provide the child items ('C:\OIMShare1\abc1\') in the script and it has identify the parent folder ('C:\OIMShare1\') and the child items need to inherit all the permissions for the parent.

       

      Thanks in advance

      • farismalaeb's avatar
        farismalaeb
        Iron Contributor
        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

        if the answer fulfill your needs, please don't forget to click on Best Response and give a like 🙂

        Thanks

         

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