Re-ACL

When you are planning a migration of user accounts between domains one task always pops up pretty quickly: reassigning the permissions of the users in the source domain to the corresponding users in the target domain, in other words reACLing the file server.

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. When administrators migrate user accounts between domains, they typically re-ACL those server resources users have access to. In plain English: they copy or move the permissions from the accounts of the old domain to the corresponding accounts of the new domain. There are various ways to do that. In this article, I present a simple way to re-ACL roaming user profiles.