{"id":290,"date":"2014-11-23T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/11\/23\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-if-folder-inherits-from-parent\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:36:59","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-if-folder-inherits-from-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-if-folder-inherits-from-parent\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find If Folder Inherits from Parent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to determine if an NTFS folder inherits from its parent folder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine if an NTFS folder inherits from its parent folder?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the <b>Get-NTFSAccessInheritance<\/b> cmdlet provided by the NTFSSecurity <span>module<\/span>, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-NTFSAccessInheritance -Path C:\\Windows<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\">Or if you want to query multiple folders:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">dir -Recurse | Get-NTFSAccessInheritance | Where-Object { -not $_.InheritanceEnabled }<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to determine if an NTFS folder inherits from its parent folder. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine if an NTFS folder inherits from its parent folder? &nbsp;Use the Get-NTFSAccessInheritance cmdlet provided by the NTFSSecurity module, for example: Get-NTFSAccessInheritance -Path C:\\Windows Or if you want to query multiple folders: dir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to determine if an NTFS folder inherits from its parent folder. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine if an NTFS folder inherits from its parent folder? &nbsp;Use the Get-NTFSAccessInheritance cmdlet provided by the NTFSSecurity module, for example: Get-NTFSAccessInheritance -Path C:\\Windows Or if you want to query multiple folders: dir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}