If you don't want to touch anything else, just change the command as
follows:

icacls "\\fileserver\ShareA\*" /grant DOMAIN\FullAdmins:F /T

Then, you'll add the necessary group either explicitly or via inheritance
as appropriate.










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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Eugene Lipsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a fileshare that I'd like to add a new security group to and give
> it full admin rights to all the subfolders/files without changing any of
> the existing permissions. So far I've been attempting to do this via the
> following icacls command:
>
> icacls "\\fileserver\ShareA\*" /grant DOMAIN\FullAdmins:(OI)(CI)(F) /T
>
> My issue is that a lot of the folders and subfolders (hundreds, multiple
> levels deep) have inheritance disabled and so permissions do not propagate
> down to those folders and their subfolders requiring running the same
> command on the level of those folders. I'm sure others have run into
> similar situation and I'm guessing may have developed scripts to parse all
> subfolders in a share with inheritance disabled to run a command against.
> If anyone has something handy or other suggestions besides having to
> re-design the fileshare I'd appreciate it.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Eugene
>

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