The scenario:
I have a template folder on our file server in a shared folder called Projects. This template folder has all the NTFS security permissions configured for the template folder and subfolders and inheritance is turned off. The idea being when I needed to create a new project, I would copy the template and rename it. All the subfolders below would then be correctly configured with the right NTFS permissions. This worked great until recently, when I copied the template for two new projects and was running into issues of users only being able to open the files read-only. Upon investigation I found that my copied folders are no longer keeping the NTFS permissions from the template, they are instead being replaced by the NTFS permissions from the root shared folder (Projects) and inheritance is automatically turned on. I've searched for a few hours now as to why this would suddenly be happening, but can't figure it out. Hopefully someone could point me to an article explaining it and what I can do to fix it.
And just to be clear, this did work until recently... not sure what has happened.
EDIT: I used robocopy with the /sec and /e switches, which accomplished what I want to do, but I would still like to know why copying and pasting no longer works as it did previously.
Server: Windows SBS 2008
Thanks,
Doug