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I'll disagree somewhat - it depends on what the folders are. &nbsp;If you're talking about user folders, then a simple script could potentially do the trick. &nbsp;If the user names match... if the... You get the idea - you haven't provided a lot of potentially necessary information to know if you could do this in an automated way.<br />
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Indeed, I think to some extent it doesn't matter - you can use tools to read the existing permissions and match up the accounts (especially if the account names match).
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I'll disagree somewhat - it depends on what the folders are.  If you're talking about user folders, then a simple script could potentially do the trick.  If the user names match... if the... You get the idea - you haven't provided a lot of potentially necessary information to know if you could do this in an automated way.

Indeed, I think to some extent it doesn't matter - you can use tools to read the existing permissions and match up the accounts (especially if the account names match).

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Account names match. &nbsp;Folders are not user folders but network shares in a lot of different folders with &nbsp;specific access (some to just certain sub folders).
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Account names match.  Folders are not user folders but network shares in a lot of different folders with  specific access (some to just certain sub folders).

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I need to join a legacy 2008R2 server to a domain. &nbsp;There are many folder/file privileges on that legacy server. &nbsp;Is there anyway to automate changing (migrating) those folder privileges from legacyServer\UserAccount to domain\UserAccount?
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I need to join a legacy 2008R2 server to a domain.  There are many folder/file privileges on that legacy server.  Is there anyway to automate changing (migrating) those folder privileges from legacyServer\UserAccount to domain\UserAccount?

Joining server to domain

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Active Directory

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