Christopher Dargel's Exchange and Windows Blog

Hey Folks,
here is an example to easy set ACLs on a Windows fileserver by importing path an permissions from a CSV file:

$Permissions = Import-Csv e:\permissions.csv -delimiter '|'
ForEach ($line in $Permissions)
{
 $acl = Get-Acl $line.Path
 $acl.SetAccessRuleProtection($True, $False)
 $rule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.
FileSystemAccessRule($line.Group,"Modify","ContainerInherit, ObjectInherit",
 "None", "Allow")
#-------------------------------------------------------------
# The above line can be edited like the reference at the end.
#-------------------------------------------------------------
 $acl.AddAccessRule($rule)
 Set-Acl $line.Path $acl
 }

The CSV has to look like this:

Path|Group
e:\folder1\subfolder1|domain\group1
e:\folder1|subfolder2|domain\group2
e:\folder2|subfolder1|domain\group3
e:\folder2|subfolder2|domain\group4

Reference Table:

Source: http://powershell.nicoh.me/powershell-1/files-and-folders/set-folders-acl-owner-and-ntfs-rights

Cheers, Chris