Resetting SACL Tree May Disable Inheritance (269012)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

This article was previously published under Q269012

SYMPTOMS

If you click to select the Reset auditing entries on all child objects and enable propagation of inheritable auditing entries check box on the Auditing tab in Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe), the child's Allow inheritable auditing entries from parent to propagate to this object check box is cleared.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date     Time    Version        Size     File name
   -----------------------------------------------------
   8/14/00  7:12PM  5.0.2195.2103  139,536  Regedt32.exe

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, manually set the Allow inheritable auditing entries from parent to propagate to this object check box.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

Note that this issue does not occur in the NTFS file system.

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	9/26/2005
Keywords:	kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kbfix kbWin2000PreSP2Fix KB269012