<https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5fm9lg/windows_equivalent_of_umask/>: Q: What is the Windows/ Windows Storage server equivalent of a umask? A: I'm not aware of a direct equivalent; NTFS permissions are hierarchical in general, so you should be looking at changing the ACLs on the parent directory, possibly involving CREATOR_OWNER depending on what you want to do. A: There is none. In Windows, new files and folders will inherit the permissions of the directory that they are originally created in. A: The equivalent would be inheritance. Set the permissions on a parent folder.