Greetings Powershell Gurus and beginners,

I am reaching out to you all because I have a question concerning the takeown command. I am trying to change the owner of a home folder and all sub folders for users on the network, but I am getting stuck on how to specify a security group within the command. Lets say I am trying to add a security group called:  "battleship". Below is the following command that I use:             

takeown /f  "H:\Home Folders" /a /r

I can run the above command successfully, but the problem is this will give the domain admin ownership of the folders while I am trying to add "battleship" as the owner. How would I add the security group into the above command to successfully give ownership to all home folders on my network? Any comments and/or suggestions is greatly appreciated.

You are asking a question about a Windows utility command in a scripting forum.  Perhaps you should ask in the Windows forum for the OS you are working with.

You might also try to read the help for the command.  That is usually where a technician would start.

My apologies, I thought I was in the Windows Server 2012 section. I did use the "takeown /?" command in powershell and it was helpful in showing me how to type the command correctly with the options that were presented to me.

Hi Ceddy,

To change the owner of folder with specific user account in powershell, Please check the Set-Owner function in this article:

http://learn-powershell.net/2014/06/24/changing-ownership-of-file-or-folder-using-powershell/

If there is anything else regarding this issue, please feel free to post back.

Best Regards,

Anna

Anna,

Thank you for the link as it was very helpful. I now understand how to use the function. I do have another question though. How would I go about combining both the takeown command and the set-owner command. I was told that this could be a achieved as a one line command?

Hi Ceddy,

Based on my research, the takeown command can't specify the owner account:

Enables an administrator to recover access to a file that previously was denied, by making the administrator the owner of the file.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753024.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Anna