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I'm looking for a simple Powershell way to set NTFS permissions on a specific folder.

Get-Acl "\\fileserver\c$\Program Files\Target" is not even working for me. Any ideas?

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What you want to do is use get-acl and save it to a variable. Then, you can modify that variable and push it to the file/folder in question using set-acl

There are some good examples here and even more examples here.

If that's too complicated (it can get a bit messy at times), you can always just call icacls.exe from your PowerShell script and do it the old-fashioned way.

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