Question : Windows 2003/2008 NTFS permissions

I have this directory structure on one of my network shares. I must have like 50 subfolders inside the "RootFolder". Right now, all domain users have modify permissions to the root and all subfolders. However, as per new company policy, domain users cannot create files and folders in the root. They can only create files and folders *inside* the 50 or so subfolders. I am trying to set it up at a test lab first but cannot seem to get the permissions right.

I am trying to do this with the least admin effort. I dont want to go into each of the 50 or so subfolders to disable inheritance from the parent and set permissions for each subfolder.

RootFolder
>>>SubFolder1
>>>SubFolder2
>>>SubFolder3
>>>...

Answer : Windows 2003/2008 NTFS permissions

well, you could change the security on the root folder, in advanced, make it so your users have modify on "this folder only"

then, if all 50 subfolders get the same security as the other subfolders, you can select all the folders at the same time, right  click properties, security - it will ask you if you want to make them all the same, say yes.... then adjust from there...  advanced, uncheck inherit from parent, give them their modify permissions here and include subfolders

if they need different security from each other, then, you're going to have to do each subfolder individually...  but you -might- be able to get someone in a scripting category here to write you a batch file that you can run in the root folder, which captures a (dir /b) listing, pumps it thru a loop that runs cacls.exe over each result, using if/then for directory names, but that's going to be harder than just doing it by mouse.