ACL inheritance is one of key concept in Active Directory delegation of control. It allows ACEs set on a parent container gets inherited by its child objects. It simplifies access management significantly as it allows the management to be done on the container level rather than on individual leaf objects...

Active Directory Powershell implements two Powershell Provider cmdlets specifically for access control management in Active Directory: Get-ACL and Set-ACL. This blog series is to give a few examples on how to use them. Note that it is not intended for a detailed explanation of access control and delegation...