Powershell script to enable inheritance for the folders created in NTFS share

Thank youfarismalaeb for all the help and guidance.

suren424 

Everything seems fine, and I always recommend trying things before applying it in production, what might seems to be fine might not be OK with you, so its always better to try 🙂

and yes you can get the current permission by running the following 

Get-Acl -Path C:\AttendanceReport\ | select path,access -ExpandProperty Access

there is a more complicated way, which will provide a cleaner output, but you just need this for reference, so enjoy you day and the script

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Thanks

Thank you farismalaeb.

The script worked. I was able to get the parent for the child items and set the permissions.

-- Does the below script looks good. As the permissions section is in a loop, just wanted to make sure, i am not redoing the same thing again and again.

-- Is there a way to print the permissions before and after enabling the inheritance to know what permissions have changed ?

 $the_shares = ('C:\OIMShare\abc\', 'C:\OIMShare\abc1\','C:\OIMShare1\def\','C:\OIMShare2\ghi\')
$allFolders=Get-ItemProperty -Path $the_shares
Write-Host "The Parent is " -ForegroundColor Green -NoNewline
$allFolders.Parent.Name
foreach ($Folder in $allFolders){
$Permission=get-acl -Path $Folder.FullName
$Permission.SetAccessRuleProtection($False,$true)
Set-Acl -Path $Folder.FullName -AclObject $Permission
}

Thank you very much for all you guidance

Thank youfarismalaeb 

It worked. Can i print what permissions is this script setting and what were there on the child folder before ?

And does this below script looks fine or am i missing anything?

I am trying to get the parent folder for the child item and inherit the permissions. Just wanted to make sure, i am not redoing the same thing as it is in the for loop.

Script :

$the_shares = ('C:\OIMShare\abc\', 'C:\OIMShare\abc1\','C:\OIMShare1\def\','C:\OIMShare2\ghi\')
$allFolders=Get-ItemProperty -Path $the_shares
Write-Host "The Parent is " -ForegroundColor Green -NoNewline
$allFolders.Parent.Name
foreach ($Folder in $allFolders){
$Permission=get-acl -Path $Folder.FullName
$Permission.SetAccessRuleProtection($False,$true)
Set-Acl -Path $Folder.FullName -AclObject $Permission
}

Thanks in advance.