Hello,
I am pretty new to Microsoft File Services and File/Folder Ownership has been a little painful so far. We have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Server setup with File Services using NTFS permissions. We have about 1 TB of shared data to various users and groups. We have student and staff polices set so they can't modify the Security Tab via Windows Explorer but we continue to see Staff members and Students somehow change Ownership of the files and folders. We notice the ownership changes mostly whenever we make NTFS permission changes we will get hundreds of pop-ups complaining that we do not have sufficient rights to make the changes on certain files and folders. I have cleaned some of them up by re-taking ownership and reseting rights via the cmd line like so:
takeown /F folder1 /r /d y & ICACLS folder1 /reset /T
Is there a way to prevent File/Folder Ownership changes that remove access for the Administrator or is there a Super Administrator that doesn't lose access?
Is there a way to find these files and folders that the Administrator has lost rights too because of the Ownership?
Any ideas on how they are changing File/Folder Ownership to prevent the Administrator without the Security Tab in Windows Explorer and no cmd line?