Archive for February, 2010

Understanding Windows 7 and 2008 R2 UAC and permissions

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

If you’ve worked with Windows 7 or Server 2008R2 for any length of time, certainly you’ve run into situations where you find you don’t have permission to read, modify, or delete files and folders, even though you’re an Administrator.  With this article I hope to explain (in very basic terms) why this happens and more importantly, how you can provision things to ensure you always have permission, along with a simple script to set these permissions. (more…)