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Domain Admin can not take ownership of files

Server Fault Asked by Myles Rowley on December 20, 2021

I have a very strange issue where a domain admin can not see the permissions of a file i.e. has no read permissions. This means I can not use takeown or icacls (even running as administrator) to alter permissions and ownership because access is always denied.

File Permissions

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Having looked at google I can not see a way round this issue, any suggestions are very welcome

2 Answers

In my case it was Sophos Central Server Lockdown that was denying me to take ownership of certain files. I could delete most files in the folder but 4 files refused to let me take ownership until I unlocked the Server in Sophos Central.

Answered by maximdj on December 20, 2021

so I know this was asked a long time ago, but I had the exact same issue. I found that clearing the open files within compmgmt.msc > Shared Folders > Open Files for the affect folder(s) resolved the issue.

Answered by Jake O on December 20, 2021

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