Grant an account rights to read and modify files in all Redirected Documents folders?

Question

We have set up redirected Documents folder with the default recommended permissions that does not grant Administrators any access to the folders.  If an administrator needs access to a folder, they take ownership of the folder, grants themselves permissions
and does whatever they need to do with the folder such as delete it or give access to a new person.  This is rarely needed so it is not a big deal.
However,  we  now need to import everyone's Outlook PSTs (stored in their redirected MyDoc's so they are backed up) into their new  Exchange Archive mailboxes.  We will also need to be able to verify all PSTs are gone from the file server
once the contents are imported into their archive mailbox.  We also need to be able to run reports showing which users are storing music and video files in their folders and how much.
When I tried to run Windirstat against the share containing the redirected MyDocs folders to see what file types where taking up space, I got very incomplete results even with using psexec running as system account due to inadequate permissions on the user's
folders.  
We also need  the PST Capture Tool to have rights to read into their documents folders and move any psts found into the users archive mailbox.
Rather than having to go to each user's redirected documents fiolder one by one and take ownership to change permissions, is there a more efficient way to have an account running the PST Capture Tool and WindirStat have access to read and change files in
the user's redirected documents folders?
I thought of just removing the option in the GPO that says "Grant the user exclusive rights to My Documents," but I don't think that will work on pre-existing
folders that already have permissions set.

Answer 1

Hi,
Based on my research, if you already have a bunch of existing redirected My Documents folders set up with the
Grant the user exclusive rights to My Documents check box selected, the only documented way to regain access to the folders is to take ownership of each individual folder and manually edit the permissions to give the Administrators group full
control.
We can use powershell script to help regain access to the folders, for more details, please go through the below link:
http://mypkb.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/how-to-restore-administrators-access-to-redirected-my-documents-folder/
Regards,
Yan Li
Regards, Yan Li