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pwcaldwell
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Dec 05, 2019

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)
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      pwcaldwell
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      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.GetSite

       

      So 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.

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