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Update-BrokenInheritance

SYNOPSIS

Finds and fixes users with broken inheritance.

SYNTAX

Update-BrokenInheritance [[-SearchBase] <String>] [[-Identity] <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION

Will search Active Directory for users that do not have permissions inheritance enabled and then fix the inheritance.

EXAMPLES

EXAMPLE 1

Update-BrokenInheritance -Identity "CN=Joe Snuffy,CN=Users,DC=wstools,DC=dev"

Will fix the broken inheritance on the user Joe Snuffy.

EXAMPLE 2

Update-BrokenInheritance -SearchBase "CN=Users,DC=wstools,DC=dev"

Will fix the broken inheritance on all users in the Users OU.

PARAMETERS

-Identity

Specify a user to fix the inheritance on. Can use sAMAccountName or distinguishedName. If no user is specified it will find all users with broken inheritance.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 2
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-SearchBase

Specify the OU to search using the distinguishedName of the OU. If not specified it searches the whole domain.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 1
Default value: (Get-ADDomain).DistinguishedName
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

CommonParameters

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

INPUTS

System.String

OUTPUTS

System.String

NOTES

Author: Skyler Hart Created: Sometime before 2017-08-07 Last Edit: 2022-09-05 23:40:29 Other: Requires: -Module ActiveDirectory

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