Home Folder NTFS Permissions When Folders Already Exist!

[jabellamy]

Home Folder NTFS Permissions When Folders Already Exist!

 

Hi Everyone!

 

Does anyone know of a quick way to populate "home folders" with the users correct NTFS permissions when they already exist?

 

For instance:

 

user1 home folder does not currently have his ntfs permission set to user1-Full Control. He needs this and when trying the %username% command in AD, It errors saying the folder already exists and doesn't implement the user1 NTFS change.

 

I could do it manually, but for over 1000 users it'll take time. The current folders already include over a TB of data, so to recreate them and migrate will take time too!

 

Any help would be GREATLY received...... HELP!

[Gaz]

I used a program called Ad Infinitum to do this. You could also do it by writing a script I believe, but I couldn't script my way out of a wet paper bag.

AD Infinitum Active Directory network administration multiple user manager tool for Windows 2000 and NT4

 

EDIT:

 

Actually I think you can only do this with creating users, but if the users are already there it will only update the information, so it may or may not work.

Edited January 31, 2012 by Gaz