PowerShell Change owner of files and folders

Question

Searching the web, I found 2 scripts that are able to change the owner of files and folders. When testing this, it functions perfectly in PowerShell 1.0. Now I\'m trying to comb

Answer 1

You can use the SetOwner() method for folders, just like for files.

# Define the owner account/group
$Account = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Principal.NTAccount -ArgumentList 'BUILTIN\Administrators';

# Get a list of folders and files
$ItemList = Get-ChildItem -Path c:\test -Recurse;

# Iterate over files/folders
foreach ($Item in $ItemList) {
    $Acl = $null; # Reset the $Acl variable to $null
    $Acl = Get-Acl -Path $Item.FullName; # Get the ACL from the item
    $Acl.SetOwner($Account); # Update the in-memory ACL
    Set-Acl -Path $Item.FullName -AclObject $Acl;  # Set the updated ACL on the target item
}