Hello all, I am trying to determine what others in the industry are doing for managing folder structure with broken inheritance and or modified inherited permissions. I am struggling with the proper way to manage this. One scenario is to created a new folder structure where permissions would have to be different from the parent which would scale out vertically and create a large folder structure. The other is to manage the folder structure in place but this at time leads to someone accidently forcing permissions down. The bigger issue I see is the reporting aspect and the concept of data owners validating the permissions within their hierarchy. Personnally I have been struggling with the expanding of the folder structure since NTFS grants the technical abilitiy for granular security within the folder structure. I am curious to know if more people are using granular security or managing folders on inheritance basis only. Thanks PaulPaul Glickenhaus

Hi, Please refer the following articles: Changing inherited permissions http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758122(v=WS.10).aspx Icacls http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525(v=WS.10).aspx An Introduction to Security in Windows 7 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.05.win7.aspx?pr=blog#id1000062 Hope this helps! Best Regards Elytis Cheng Elytis Cheng TechNet Community Support