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Asked: 2014-08-13 07:26:43 +0800 CST

I am unable to set the owner of a folder back to the user from my bat file

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The following bat file is being used to fix permissions for Users in our organization. Everything works perfectly until we try to set the owner back to the user.

takeown /F F:\Users\First.Last /R

icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /grant:r system:(oi)(ci)f /t /c /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /grant:r "Group admins":(oi)(ci)f /t /c /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /grant:r "Domain admins":(oi)(ci)f /t /c /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /grant:r "CREATOR OWNER":(OI)(CI)F /T /C /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /grant:r First.Last:(oi)(ci)f /t /c /Q

icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /remove:g "everyone" /T /C /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /remove:g "administrators" /T /C /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /remove Everyone /T /C /Q

icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /setowner First.Last /c /t /Q

Here is the line that doesn't work in a bat file. It works perfectly fine when typing it into a Command Prompt:

icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /setowner First.Last /c /t /Q

doesn't work in my bat file.

Is there another way to remove myself?

I applied fix Fix201044 from Microsoft's website and same result.

I am comfortable with using VBScript, PowerShell, Bat.

I am not comfortable with having to install 3rd party software that requires reboot or beta software.

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windows-server-2003

1 Answers

  1. $HomeDir = "F:\Users\First.Last"
$objUser = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount "DOMAIN\first.last"
$ACL = Get-Acl -Path $HomeDir
$acl.SetOwner($objUser)
Set-ACL -Path $HomeDir -AclObject $ACL

    This should set the Ownership for you using Powershell. I'm assuming this is in a domain environment

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