Category: Windows Servers

When i visit a lot of company’s i see many times that the home folder directory have not the right rights. To fix this that’s al lot of work. Sow it time to write about it. I wrote a nice powershell script to fix it and save me and you a lot of time.

Three steps :

1.  Set Share Permissions for the Everyone group to Full Control.

2.  Use the following settings for NTFS Permissions (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443):

• CREATOR OWNER – Full Control (Apply onto: Subfolders and Files Only)
• System – Full Control (Apply onto: This Folder, Subfolders and Files)
• Domain Admins – Full Control (Apply onto: This Folder, Subfolders and Files)
• Everyone – Create Folder/Append Data (Apply onto: This Folder Only)
• Everyone – List Folder/Read Data (Apply onto: This Folder Only)
• Everyone – Read Attributes (Apply onto: This Folder Only)
• Everyone – Traverse Folder/Execute File (Apply onto: This Folder Only)

Pay attention when configuring the home directory or folder redirection policies.  If you enable the setting to give the user exclusive access to the folder, you will override the inherited permissions and need to reset the ACL

3. Run the Following script Repair-HomeFolderPermissions.ps1

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#########################################################################
# Script: Repair-HomeFolderPermissions.ps1
# Author: Ward Vissers    http://www.wardvissers.nl
# Date: 20/11/2014
# Keywords:
# Comments:
# Pre-Requisites: Full Control over destination folder.
#
# +————+—–+———————————————————+
# |       Date | Usr | Description                                             |
# +————+—–+———————————————————+
# | 20/11/2014 | WV  | Initial Script                                          |
# |            |     |                                                         |
# +————+—–+———————————————————+
#
#   1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443
#
#   2. Set Share Permissions for the Everyone group to Full Control.
#  
#   3.  Use the following settings for NTFS Permissions:
#
#   CREATOR OWNER – Full Control (Apply onto: Subfolders and Files Only)
#   System – Full Control (Apply onto: This Folder, Subfolders and Files)
#   Domain Admins – Full Control (Apply onto: This Folder, Subfolders and Files)
#   Everyone – Create Folder/Append Data (Apply onto: This Folder Only)
#   Everyone – List Folder/Read Data (Apply onto: This Folder Only)
#   Everyone – Read Attributes (Apply onto: This Folder Only)
#   Everyone – Traverse Folder/Execute File (Apply onto: This Folder Only)
#
#
# DISCLAIMER
# ==========
# THIS CODE IS MADE AVAILABLE AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE ENTIRE
# RISK OF THE USE OR THE RESULTS FROM THE USE OF THIS CODE REMAINS WITH THE USER.
#############################################################################

$dirpath = “D:\Data\user”

# get list of all child directories, in the current directory
$directories = dir $dirpath | where {$_.PsIsContainer}

# iterate over the directories
foreach ($dir in $directories)
{
# echo out what the full directory is that we’re working on now
write-host Working on $dir.fullname using $dir.name

# setup the inheritance and propagation as we want it
$inheritance = [system.security.accesscontrol.InheritanceFlags]“ContainerInherit, ObjectInherit”
$propagation = [system.security.accesscontrol.PropagationFlags]“None”
$allowdeny=[System.Security.AccessControl.AccessControlType]::Allow

# get the existing ACLs for the directory
$acl = get-acl $dir.fullname

# add our user (with the same name as the directory) to have modify perms
$aclrule = new-object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule($dir.name, “FullControl”, $inheritance, $propagation, “$allowdeny”)

# check if given user is Valid
$sid = $aclrule.IdentityReference.Translate([System.Security.Principal.securityidentifier])

# add the ACL to the ACL rules
$acl.AddAccessRule($aclrule)

# set the acls
set-acl -aclobject $acl -path $dir.fullname
}

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