Clone NTFS Permissions

I have done this before when moving log file locations in Exchange and it’s well cool and make life very

In this example the two directories you created already have the same permissions because they were created in the same folder. I get the following error when i attempt too run this script against two existing folders with different permissions

Set-Acl : Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.

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+ set-acl  <<<< $home\Test $sd

That example works and the folders don't have the same permissions, because you will manually assign correct permissions to sample folder before you apply them to target folder. Code could be a little simpler using pipeline:

md $home\sample

# manually assign correct permissions to folder "sample"

md $home\newfolder

Get-Acl $home\sample | Set-Acl -path $home\newfolder

It appears to work in the office, but on the home system the code failed with the above error. I had permissions to both folders. I'm and admin on the system and I was the owner. The folders were on two different drives, but that shouldn't matter as the code you just supplied worked across the network.

Thank you for the help.