File Expiration Task - User rights lost

Question

Hi 
I created a File Expiration Task on Windows server 2008 R 2. And the job is running successfully.But all the user rights of those expired files are lost after they has been moved...There is no option I
can find and I dont wanna use "Custom File Management Tasks".  How can I move the expired files without losing the user rights?

Answer 1

Hi,
As you said there is no specific options for "keeping" or "not keeping" original permissions. So if file permissions are inheriting the destination folder, we cannot change it.
I have 2 possible workaround.
1. Custom (which you would like to avoid). Sample could be found in this article:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2009/05/11/customizing-file-management-tasks.aspx
2. Use Robocopy to move files older than n days. See the following parameters:
/MAXAGE:n :: MAXimum file AGE - exclude files older than n days/date
/MINAGE:n :: MINimum file AGE - exclude files newer than n days/date
/MAXLAD:n :: MAXimum Last Access Date - exclude files unused since n
/MINLAD:n :: MINimum Last Access Date - exclude files used since n.
             (If n < 1900 then n = n days, else n = YYYYMMDD date).
You could schedule a task to run this command.
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