How to change the permissions for hundreds of thousands of files and sub-folders (file shares)

November 18th, 2007 § 1 Comment

I recently had a client decide to take the route of putting martial law on their file shares in order to force SharePoint adoption for document storage and management. So in case you’re ever asked to do the same, here’s an easy way to change the permissions on all the files and folders of a network drive:

Use CACLS! (It’s a command line thing)

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