removing old users from folder security

[jjohnsoncantell]

Greetings,

 

Is there any easy way to remove a user from all security permissions on nested folders? I have users in folder permissions who were manually added as opposed to part of a group and this has been done on multiple folders. I would like to remove that user without affecting any other permissions or inheritance. Is this possible?

 

Thanks

James

[SHimmer45]

icalcs can do this without damaging the existing permissions and it has a backup feature in case there is a problem.

[jjohnsoncantell]

I dont believe ive used that before, please could you point me in the direction of where I can find it. Im assuming it would have usage instructions?

 

Thanks

[SHimmer45]

on my win8 pro machine at the command prompt typing icacls /? give the basic help

 

or the Technet page

Icacls

[jjohnsoncantell]

I didn't even realise it was part of windows, it worked a treat thanks.

[SHimmer45]

goodo there are some hidden gems already built into the CLI in windows/powershell