Get-SPWeb : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Question

In a system, when I run

Get-SPSite | Get-SPWeb

It shows the error:

Get-SPWeb : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

But if I run

$sites = get-spsite ;
foreach ($site in $sites)
{
    Write-Host 'Processing ' $site;
    get-spweb $site.Url
} 

Everything works fine.

Anyone knows what can cause this issue?

UAC is Off, obviously, the account has permission to run the cmdlet, what else it can be? Any idea?

Thanks

Answer 1

When you do

Get-SPSite | Get-SPWeb

You will get a collection of all SPSites in the farm, and then you try to pass this array as an argument to get all SPWebs. The pipe | is only valid if you pass a single object (one SPSite) to the next operation. And that is exactly what you're doing in your second example. To get the first statement to work, you have to pass only one SPSite to get its SPWebs.

You need to type:

Get-SPSite -Identity https://MySiteCollectionURL | Get-SPWeb

In your second attempt you're only getting the root SPWeb which has the same URL as the Site Collection. You're not getting all SPWebs in that SPSite.

Answer 2

Please refer to the below link https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263291.aspx

which says..................... Farm Administrators group Members of the Farm Administrators group have Full Control permissions to and responsibility for all servers in the server farm. Members can perform all administrative tasks in Central Administration for the server or server farm. They can assign administrators to manage service applications, which are instances of shared services. This group does not have access to individual sites or their content. ................................

So, you have to grant user policy for each web app (full read). regards, Nicholas A. Souza