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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...
enable inheritance
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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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suren424
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Oct 01, 2020

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

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farismalaeb
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Oct 06, 2020

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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    suren424
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 11, 2020

    Thank youfarismalaeb for all the help and guidance.

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