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So, first post on this site and I thought I’d start things off with a little bit of PowerShell. Until recently I’d managed to make use of other means for modifying ACLs however thanks to some recent work with System Centre Orchestrator I thought I’d try to push myself down the Powershell route.
For my particular needs I simply required the ability to provide a new ACL and apply this to the root of a user’s home folder. Many guides on working with ACLs and PowerShell suggest starting with the Get-ACL command, however in my case I wasn’t interested in finding the existing information but starting from scratch.
Let’s create a new ACL and give it the variable name of $HomeACL: