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Change Folder Permissions in Bulk

Hello.

Currently I am in a W2K3 Enviroment.

On one of our shared drives we have a list of Jobs, each which have a folder called COST. I need to reset permissions on that COST folder, but can't push it down via inheritance. Is there any way by a gui tool or script I can make those changes.

An Example of the structure is:

\\root\JobFiles\JobNumber1\Cost

Therefor I would like to script something that rests the permissions for these folders

\\root\JobFiles\JobNumber1\Cost
\\root\JobFiles\JobNumber2\Cost
\\root\JobFiles\JobNumber3\Cost

and so forth.

Hypercat (Deb)

You could use the cacls.exe command line tool and then script the changes that you need to make. You can get the applicable switches for the command by running cacls /? at the command line, if you're not familiar with it. You'd still have to identify each folder individually in the script, but at least you could cut and paste the folder paths.
There's also an enhanced tool for Win2K3 SP2, which I've never used:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919240

AaronIT

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So keeping with my example above...

What would my command be

cacls \\root\JobFiles\JobNumber1\Cost /T

How do I set it to inherit?

Can I also add a group vice a user?

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