Home Folder Permissions on Windows Server 2022

A small office running Windows Server 2022 kept hitting permission errors on its users' home folders, and administrators were getting locked out of folders users had created.

Root cause: three things combined. File Explorer on the server added one-off permissions every time an admin opened a folder, Active Directory made each user the owner of their folder with Full Control, and folder-by-folder changes had left inheritance broken.

What I did: wrote a step-by-step fix in PowerShell and icacls: back up the current permissions, take ownership as Administrators, reset one clean permission set on the root, give each user Modify rights on only their own folder, and map every user's H: drive to a hidden share through Active Directory.

Result: each user sees only their own folder, administrators keep full access with no prompts, and new folders inherit the right permissions automatically.