SharePoint Rest API Giving "Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))" Error

Question

SharePoint Rest API Giving "Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))" Error

https://{tenant}/sites/{sitename}/_api/web/roleassignments?$expand=Member/users,RoleDefinitionBindings

The same API works on different site collection.

Below is the Permission on site 1 :

Permission on site 2 :

Answer 1

Hi @Anonymous
Full Control, Limited Access is just how SharePoint displays permissions. It means that the user has permissions to an object with custom permissions. At the same time, the user is a member of a site group or possesses individual permissions that provide full control permissions. SharePoint will provide the user with the least-restrictive permission set available for that object. In the two site, the Full Control, Limited Access might have different permission level. So one of them will return Access is denied. Please try to remove the user from the site first and grant the user permission again.

Here is the details for limited access
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/SharePoint/sites/user-permissions-and-permission-levels?redirectedfrom=MSDN

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Answer 2

Hi Ray,

I have already removed and readded the user to the effected site but it still gives the same error.