Completely about UAC. Disable UAC or use the File Server / Shares MMCs (elevated, of course) instead of Windows Explorer.
Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 8:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive How are you creating these VMs? This doesn't sound like normal behavior... -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Feb 21, 2011 8:20 AM, "Paul Hutchings" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Just starting to roll out some 2008 R2 based VM's. > > I've created a couple of new partitions on one of them, and thought I'd > lock the permissions down to the local Administrators group and SYSTEM, > but I'm finding that logged onto the server console with an account that > clearly is in the local Administrators group I can't access the root of > the newly created drives, I simply get "Access Denied". > > Of course because the account is in the Administrators group it can > format the drives and access them quite happily with the default > permissions in place. > > > > I suspect I'm missing something obvious but I'm not sure exactly what - > any suggestions please? > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > -- > MIRA Ltd > > Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England > Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 > VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 > > The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of > the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it > and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, > forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
