Yesterday I posted a function to create a summary report of ACL information using Windows PowerShell. I posted this in response to a question in the Ask Don and Jeff forum at PowerShell.com. I received an appreciative followup. The next step for this IT Pro it seems is to get a detailed list of the…
Tag: Get-ACL
Get ACL Information with PowerShell
I got a question in the “Ask Don and Jeff” forum on PowerShell.com that intrigued me. The issue was working with the results of the Get-ACL cmdlet. The resulting object includes a property called Access which is a collection of access rule objects. Assuming you are using this with the file system, these are System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule…
Creating ACL Reports
I saw a tweet this morning that was a PowerShell one-liner for capturing folder permissions to a text file. There’s nothing wrong with it but it’s hard to be truly productive in 140 characters so I thought I would take the idea and run with it a little bit. Here are some ways you might…