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pwcaldwell
Dec 05, 2019Copper Contributor
Get-SPOSite authority error
Starting today between 8:30am and 9:30am PST, the Get-SPOSite powershell command started giving authority errors when trying to use it. I'm a global admin and I can connect to my SharePoint Online environment using Connect-SPOService. I've been able to run a Get-SPOxxxxx command that works (Get-SPOExternalUser to be specific). However, when I try Get-SPOSite or Get-SPOUser they fail with authority errors. I've already opened a support ticket. Has anyone else had this behavior starting today??
- I'm not aware of any problems with SPO cmdlets...yesterday I was doing some stuff at a customer tenant with no problems (Also using Get-SPOSite)
- pwcaldwellCopper Contributor
jcgonzalezmartin I have a scheduled job which uses this command every hour. It stopped working between 0830 and 0930 PST. I did it manually again this morning and it still failed:
PS C:\temp> Connect-SPOService -Url https://xxxxxxxxxx-admin.sharepoint.com
PS C:\temp> Get-SPOExternalUser
Email : azzzzzzzzz@yyyyyyy.com
DisplayName : Angela Zzzzzzzz
UniqueId : 10032XXXXXXXXXX
AcceptedAs : Azzzzzzzz@yyyyyyyy.com
WhenCreated : 12/3/2019 10:43:11 PM
InvitedBy :PS C:\temp> Get-SPOSite
Get-SPOSite : Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-SPOSite
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-SPOSite], ServerUnauthorizedAccessException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerUnauthorizedAccessException,Microsoft.Online.SharePoin
t.PowerShell.GetSiteSo we can see that I did login via Connect-SPOService so I'm a global admin. I did a command and got data back from SPO. Then, the Get-SPOSite command fails.