Recursing through long list of shares with get-acl

 Hi folks. First post here.  I'm working on an inventory script based that gets a number of items from a given remote server, including the File Shares and their Permissions using wmi calls.

The script creates several worksheets in Excel with one being a "Shares" list that shows the servername, share name, path, desc, and permissions.

I can use gwmi win32_share -computer computername and it returns the shares. This works fine.

However, when I run the script against a file/print server that has 755 file shares,  and the script  tries to read the permissions for the shares, the "gwmi win32_share" piece works and returns all 755 shares.  But when I try to get the permissions and other details from the results, some of them disappear.   

In the code that I have, I take the results of the “gwmi win32_share”  and start other loops to read each share and get it’s permissions.  In the loops some of the shares that list via the “gwmi win32_share” code don’t show up in the sheet.  Some are randomly being dropped.  So if I get 755 in the gwmi win32_share call, the loops may only provide 720 of the shares with details.

Is anyone aware of a memory or other kind of issue that I’m overlooking that may be causing some to get “lost” from the list when you have a list of items that contains 755 shares or more?

Thanks

Don K

Code snip as it stands now for the share piece is below –

TOP OF CODE:

$StrComputer = Read-Host "Enter Computer Name "

$StrComputerDelim = “\\” + $strComputer

$ShareItems = gwmi Win32_Share -Comp $StrComputer

..

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LOOP TO GET THE SHARE AND WRITE THE DETAILS

#Populate Shares Sheet

Write-host "Populating Share Information for $strComputer" -ForegroundColor Green

       foreach ($objItem in $ShareItems)

    {

$ShareAceName = $strComputerDelim + "\" + $objItem.Name

 $ShareAceDetails = get-ace -path $ShareAceName

  foreach ($ShareAce in $ShareAceDetails)

        {

        foreach ($UniqueShare in $ShareAce)

            {

       $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 1) = $StrComputer

       $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 2) = $objitem.Name

       $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 3) = $objItem.Path

       $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 4) = $objItem.Description

       $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 5) = $UniqueShare.FullName

       $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 6) = $UniqueShare.Account.sid

$Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 7) = $UniqueShare.Account.AccountName

       $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 8) = $UniqueShare.AccessRights.ToString()

      $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 9) = $UniqueShare.AccesscontrolType.ToString()  

       $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 10) = $UniqueShare.InheritanceEnabled

       $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 11) = $UniqueShare.InheritanceFlags.ToString()

      $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 12) = $UniqueShare.IsInherited

       $Sheet7.Cells.Item($intRowShare, 13) = $UniqueShare.PropagationFlags.ToString()

        $intRowShare = $intRowShare + 1

         }

      }

    }

Thanks for any advice!

Don K