Managing NTFS File and Folder Permissions
Every file and folder in an NTFS filesystem has an Access Control List (ACL). The ACL contains a set of Access Control Entries (ACEs). Each ACE defines permission to a file or folder for an account. For example, you could give the Sales AD global group full control of a file.
NTFS also allows a file or folder to inherit permission from its parent folder. If you create a new folder and then create a file within that new folder, the new file inherits the parent folder's permissions. You can manage the ACL list to add or remove permissions, and you can modify inheritance.
There's limited PowerShell support for managing NTFS permissions. PowerShell does have the Get-ACL and Set-ACL cmdlets, but creating the individual ACEs and managing inheritance requires using the .NET Framework (by default). A more straightforward approach is to use a third-party module, NTFSSecurity, which makes managing ACEs and ACLs, including dealing with inheritance...
