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craigbowens
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Feb 17, 2022

Script to change permissions on multiple folders

I am involved in a project to migrate users H: drive data to OneDrive.  After we migrate their data to OneDrive, we want to change their H: drive folder and files to read-only.  I have found a cacls ...
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    Harm_Veenstra
    Feb 18, 2022

    craigbowens You could try something like using c:\temp\users.txt as input with a username per line. Not tested this, but I think it should work...

     

    foreach ($user in get-content c:\temp\users.txt) {
cacls.exe "k:\$($user)" /T /E /C /P "$($user):R"
}

     

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Harm_Veenstra
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Nice, please mark my answer as solution to mark it as solved
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--karthik
Copper Contributor
Feb 12, 2023

Harm_Veenstra 

 

Hello - Thanks for that script as I was looking for the same. It worked. Can we have the same with icacls instead of cacls?

 

Can you also add a script that can give modify access only to one particular subfolder pls? subfolder name is the same for all users. 

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      --karthik
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 14, 2023

      Harm_Veenstra 

       

      Hi Thank You for your answer.

       

      There will be one folder for each user (with their own names as folder name) under one main directory. They will have their own personal files in their folders. All such user folders will have their own content plus one folder with common name and this is created by IT for some application access.

       

      I hope the below example explains it. 

       

      ex:

      p:\username1\operations

      p:\username1\schedules

      p:\username1\commonfoldername

       

      p:\username2\AccountsPayable

      p:\username2\AccountsReceivable

      p:\username2\commonfoldername

       

      I can try NTFS security but I am not a great scripter and I am going to take time to figure it out.

       

      Immediate help from an expert will be great. So, please.

       

       

       

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