I created an external content type in SharePoint 2013 and now I’m trying to read the data from my external list using PowerShell. I am connecting to a SQL Server Database and I am getting the following error:
An error occurred while enumerating through a collection: The shim execution failed unexpectedly – Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Data.OracleClient, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′ or one of its dependencies. Either a required impersonation level was not
provided, or the provided impersonation level is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070542)..
Something isn’t right here.
So first I’m loading the SharePoint addins
function Load_SPAddin()
{
$ver = $host | select version
if ($ver.Version.Major -gt 1) {$host.Runspace.ThreadOptions = “ReuseThread”}
if ((Get-PSSnapin “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell” -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null)
{
Add-PSSnapin “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell”
}
}
Load_SPAddin
Then I’m loading the web, the list and the items
$siteUrl = …
$web = Get-SPWeb $siteUrl
$UserList = $web.Lists[“External Users”]
Write-Host “The user list contains” $UserList.Items.Count “items”
$eitems = $UserList.GetItems()
The above getItems gives me the above error. until…. I run my PowerShell as Administrator and things are starting to work.
Then I’m walking through all the items
foreach ($eitem in $eitems)
{
… some code here …
}
And I’m getting another error:
Exception calling “GetItemById” with “1” argument(s): “The shim execution failed unexpectedly – Proxy
creation failed. Default context not found..”
All I have to add to the script before loading the web are the following 2 lines: :
$ctx = Get-SPServiceContext $siteUrl
$scope = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPServiceContextScope $ctx
And my items are read in without any problem.