I am writing a script to review files on our servers that have been archived. The files in question have the Offline Attribute.
The command I am running is;
Get-Childitem \\Server\Share -recurse | Where-Object { $_.Attributes -like '*offline*' } | Select DirectoryName, Name | Export-CSV C:\Output.csv
All is good until I hit a directory that I do not have access to. I am a Domain Admin but someone must have changed security on that folder taking away Domain Admins.
When this access denied occurs I get the error in the command window.
What I would like to do is capture the directory name and output it to an error file that can be reviewed and these directories can be changed.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. TIA
Capturing Access Denied Errors
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Capturing Access Denied Errors
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Re: Capturing Access Denied Errors
Hi Dan,
Well I tried that and I still get the access denied error in the command window.
Here is what I have in the program;
Try
{
Get-Childitem command
}
Catch
{
$_ | Out-File C:\Scripterrors.txt
}
Am I missing something? The Out-File is not even created.
Thanks..
Well I tried that and I still get the access denied error in the command window.
Here is what I have in the program;
Try
{
Get-Childitem command
}
Catch
{
$_ | Out-File C:\Scripterrors.txt
}
Am I missing something? The Out-File is not even created.
Thanks..
Re: Capturing Access Denied Errors
I am not a System Admin, but I do manage shared drive folders for around 1,400 sites for around 100,000 people around the U.S.waynecierkowski wrote:I am writing a script to review files on our servers that have been archived. The files in question have the Offline Attribute.
The command I am running is;
Get-Childitem \\Server\Share -recurse | Where-Object { $_.Attributes -like '*offline*' } | Select DirectoryName, Name | Export-CSV C:\Output.csv
All is good until I hit a directory that I do not have access to. I am a Domain Admin but someone must have changed security on that folder taking away Domain Admins.
When this access denied occurs I get the error in the command window.
What I would like to do is capture the directory name and output it to an error file that can be reviewed and these directories can be changed.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. TIA
When I encounter a folder for which my access has been removed, I needed to annotate that folder so I can go back to the Server Admins and have my access restored. I created the following to record only those folders where I don't have permissions:
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gci C:\users -recurse -errorvariable OOPS -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
If ($OOPS -ne $null)
{
add-content -value $OOPS c:\outputfiles\DENIED20150708.TXT
}
Endif
Access to the path 'C:\users\John.Q.Public' is denied.
Maybe you can incorporate this code to record the permission denied entries and continue processing the rest of your script, or you can run this code before to identify and correct those permissions issues before running your script.
Re: Capturing Access Denied Errors
Just a note:
To clean up the error file we can do this:
$OOPS|%{$_.Exception.Message} | Out-file access_errors.txt
if $OOPS is empty then the file will not be created.
To clean up the error file we can do this:
$OOPS|%{$_.Exception.Message} | Out-file access_errors.txt
if $OOPS is empty then the file will not be created.
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