XCACLS: XCACLS or Extended Change Access Control List tool, is an advanced version of CACLS, the difference being that we do not have to answer Yes/No prompts in XCACLS. CACLS and XCACLS are tools which are used to modify the ACLs (Access Control Lists), by which in turn we are modifying the folder permissions for users in windows. CACLS is installed in all users machine in System32 folder. Icacls.exe: This article describes the Icacls.exe command-line utility. You can use this utility to modify NTFS file system permissions Icacls is a better option than LockPermission Table. This command can be run through command line or from CA too. The reason why many people use cacls.exe instead is because using the "lockpermission table" is for some reason often unreliable, and simply doesn’t work always Another reason people mention why cacls should be used instead, is because there is a risk that the "lockpermission" table applies only the permissions in th...
This blog describes some of the packaging standards. Also contains methods to silently install different applications or handling their configuration for mass deployements.