Folder security in SSRS

Question

We our migrating our reporting services to a new server. The current reporting services folder security is setup incorrectly and I have to change the security for EVERY FOLDER (hundreds of them). I have to go to the drop down > Security >
Revert to Parent Security for every single folder on our SSRS!
Is there not a way to set all sub folders to inherit security? Like on Windows folder security you just "Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object" on the parent folder and it applies all the permissions
to every child folder.
SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence edition.

Answer 1

Hi Kelvin.uk,
According to your description, you want to set all folders which exist in report manager to inherit security in a batch, right?
In this scenario, we can use Windows PowerShell script to achieve your requirement. Using the script, we should get all folders in the report manager, then check if the folder inherit security. If not, set the folder inherit security again. For your requirement,
you can execute the script below:
$ReportServerUri = "http://<ServerName>/ReportServer/ReportService2010.asmx";
$Proxy = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $ReportServerUri -Namespace SSRS.ReportingService2010 -UseDefaultCredential ;
#check out all members of $Proxy
#$Proxy | Get-Member
#http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/reportservice2010.reportingservice2010.listchildren.aspx
$items = $Proxy.ListChildren("/", $true);
foreach($item in $items){
if($item.TypeName -eq "Folder")
write-host $item.Name
$inherited = $true
$itempolicies = $Proxy.GetPolicies($item.Path,[ref]$inherited)
if (-not $inherited){
$Proxy.InheritParentSecurity($item.Path)
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best regards,
Qiuyun Yu
Qiuyun Yu
TechNet Community Support