function make-ParentFolder
{
        Param
        (
                $inFolderArray
        )
        $parentFolder = get-datacenter $datacenter | get-folder "VM"
        foreach ($thisSubFolder in $inFolderArray)
        {
                if (!($parentFolder | get-folder $thisSubFolder -noRecursion -erroraction silentlycontinue))
                {
                        $ParentFolder = $parentFolder | new-folder $thisSubFolder
                }
                else
                {
                        $ParentFolder = $ParentFolder | get-folder $thisSubFolder -noRecursion
                }
        }
        $ParentFolder
}

$ErrorActionPreference="SilentlyContinue"
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$ErrorActionPreference = "Continue"
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$directory = "e:\scripts\vcenter7"
$datacenter = "DC1"

$directory = $directory.trim("\") #" fix the gistit syntax highlighting

$vCenterHost = "servername.domain.net"
Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenterHost


#Rebuild Permissions

        $allPermissions = import-clixml $directory\$($datacenter)-permissions.xml
        $i = 0
        foreach ($thisPermission in $allPermissions)
        {
                write-progress -Activity "Creating Permissions" -percentComplete ($i / $allPermissions.count * 100)
                $target = ""

                Write-Verbose "===============================" -Verbose
                Write-Verbose "adding permissions $thisPermission" -Verbose
                Write-Verbose "===============================" -Verbose

                if ($thisPermission.type -eq "Folder")
                {
                        #permission is assigned to a folder, use make-folder to get the precise folder
                        $target = make-Parentfolder -inFolderArray $thisPermission.entity
                }
                elseif ($thisPermission.type -eq "VirtualMachine")
                {
                        #permission is assigned to VM
                        $target = get-datacenter $datacenter | get-vm $thisPermission.entity
                }
                elseif ($thisPermission.type -eq "Datacenter")
                {
                        #permission is assigned to Datacenter
                        $target = get-datacenter $thisPermission.entity
                }
                elseif ($thisPermission.type -eq "ClusterComputeResource")
                {
                        #permission is assigned to Cluster
                       
                        $target = get-datacenter $datacenter | get-cluster $thisPermission.entity
                }
                elseif ($thisPermission.type -eq "VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitch")
                {
                        #permission is assigned to vDS
                       
                        $target = get-datacenter $datacenter | get-VDSwitch $thisPermission.entity
                }
                elseif ($thisPermission.type -eq "StoragePod")
                {
                        #permission is assigned to Datastore Cluster
                       
                        $target = get-datacenter $datacenter | get-DatastoreCluster $thisPermission.entity
                }
                else
                {
                        write-error "Unexpected permission target, $($thisPermission.type)"
                }
                
                if ($target)
                {
                        $target | new-vipermission -role $thisPermission.role -principal $thisPermission.principal -propagate $thisPermission.propagate
                }
                else
                {
                        write-error "Unable to find permission object $($thisPermission.entity)"
                }
                $i++
        }

        Disconnect-VIServer $vCenterHost

        Stop-Transcript