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The following bat file is being used to fix permissions for Users in our organization. Everything works perfectly until we try to set the owner back to the user.

takeown /F F:\Users\First.Last /R

icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /grant:r system:(oi)(ci)f /t /c /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /grant:r "Group admins":(oi)(ci)f /t /c /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /grant:r "Domain admins":(oi)(ci)f /t /c /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /grant:r "CREATOR OWNER":(OI)(CI)F /T /C /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /grant:r First.Last:(oi)(ci)f /t /c /Q

icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /remove:g "everyone" /T /C /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /remove:g "administrators" /T /C /Q
icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /remove Everyone /T /C /Q

icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /setowner First.Last /c /t /Q

Here is the line that doesn't work in a bat file. It works perfectly fine when typing it into a Command Prompt:

icacls "F:\Users\First.Last" /setowner First.Last /c /t /Q

doesn't work in my bat file.

Is there another way to remove myself?

I applied fix Fix201044 from Microsoft's website and same result.

I am comfortable with using VBScript, PowerShell, Bat.

I am not comfortable with having to install 3rd party software that requires reboot or beta software.

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  • didn't you ask this same question last week? I don't see it but I could've sworn it was already asked. And why do you care who the Owner is of the files/folders? It's perfectly acceptable for the Owner to be "Administrators" or similar.
    – TheCleaner
    Aug 12, 2014 at 15:38
  • It's the policy for my work. I did ask last week but details were left out so I had to delete the question and I reworded it as per ServerFault admins. Aug 12, 2014 at 15:43
  • You state that the /remove:g domain\admin.account is the line failing but your error pic shows the /setowner failing. Is it both that are failing?
    – TheCleaner
    Aug 12, 2014 at 15:49
  • both are failing Aug 12, 2014 at 15:58
  • Why not set the owner as the first line and then remove the other permissions? Also, are you logged onto the server as a local account or a domain account? I'm also curious why the Home folders are like this...using the Profile tab in ADUC will automatically grant them full control and everyone else would have no access other than Domain Admins and Local server admins. I have no way to test your script without building up a test VM, just trying to help think it through.
    – TheCleaner
    Aug 12, 2014 at 17:45

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$HomeDir = "F:\Users\First.Last"
$objUser = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount "DOMAIN\first.last"
$ACL = Get-Acl -Path $HomeDir
$acl.SetOwner($objUser)
Set-ACL -Path $HomeDir -AclObject $ACL

This should set the Ownership for you using Powershell. I'm assuming this is in a domain environment

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