How To Configure a PowerShell Custom Action that Grants Permissions to Administrators and No Other Users

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Summary:

This article discusses how to configure a PowerShell custom action that grants permissions to Administrators and no other users.

Solution:

1. Configure a PowerShell custom action that calls the following PowerShell cmdlet:

Invoke-Expression -Command:"icacls 'C:\Program Files\Permission' /inheritance:r /grant Administrators:F"

2. Set In-Script Execution to Immediate Execution.

3. Sequence the custom action in the Install Exec Sequence After InstallFinalize with the following Install Exec Condition:

NOT REMOVE~="ALL"

See the attached sample project for more details. In this case, the PowerShell custom action sets the permissions on INSTALLDIR.

Additional Information:

Click here for the official Microsoft documentation, an introduction to PowerShell.

Click here for the official Microsoft documentation about the Invoke-Expression PowerShell cmdlet.

Click here for the official Microsoft documentation about the icacls Windows command called by the PowerShell custom action.

UpdatedWorkingSampleProject.zip