PowerShell – List All Directories With Users Who Can Access

Maybe this is a one-off type of thing, but if you need to see every folder within a directory and get the list of who can access that folder, it can be done using PowerShell. The output is tab-separated and can easily paste into an Excel sheet.

cls
cd \\DIRECTORY_NAME\CHANGE_THIS

$items = get-childitem -R | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer -eq $true}

foreach($item in $items)
{
    $access_list = $item|get-acl; # gets access list
    
    foreach($user in $access_list)
    {
        $user_names = $user.Access
        foreach($user_name in $user_names)
        {
            Write-Host $item.Fullname "`t" $user_name.IdentityReference
        }
    }
    
}