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+# Run this script to prepare read only and write locked site collection for Adaptor crawling.
+param (
+    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
+               HelpMessage="Please provide a URL pointing to your SharePoint Web
+Application root.")]
+    [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
+    [string]$VirtualServer,
+    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
+               HelpMessage="Please provide the username the connector will use
+to crawl SharePoint. Do not include the domain name here.")]
+    [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
+    [string]$Username,
+    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
+               HelpMessage="Please provide the password the connector will use
+to crawl SharePoint.")]
+    [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
+    [string]$Password,
+    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
+               HelpMessage="Please provide the domain of the user the connector
+will use to crawl SharePoint.")]
+    [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
+    [string]$Domain
+)
+
+Add-pssnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell -ErrorAction silentlycontinue
+
+function Make-SiteDataRequest {
+    Param ([String]$siteUrl)
+    $url = $siteUrl + "/_vti_bin/sitedata.asmx"     
+    $siteDataClient = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($URL)
+    $siteDataClient.Headers.Add("SOAPAction", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/GetContent");
+    $siteDataClient.ContentType = "text/xml"
+    $siteDataClient.Accept = "text/xml" 
+    $siteDataClient.Method = "POST"
+    $siteDataClient.Credentials = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential($Username, $Password, $Domain)
+    $requestBody = "<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?><soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"" 
+    xmlns:xsd=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"" xmlns:soap=""http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/""><soap:Body><GetContent xmlns=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/""><objectType>SiteCollection</objectType><objectId>null</objectId><folderUrl></folderUrl><itemId>null</itemId><retrieveChildItems>true</retrieveChildItems><securityOnly>false</securityOnly><lastItemIdOnPage>null</lastItemIdOnPage></GetContent></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>"
+
+    $bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($requestBody)
+    $siteDataClient.ContentLength = $bytes.Length         
+    [System.IO.Stream] $outputStream = [System.IO.Stream]$siteDataClient.GetRequestStream()
+    $outputStream.Write($bytes,0,$bytes.Length)  
+    $outputStream.Close() 
+    try
+    {
+        [System.Net.HttpWebResponse] $response = [System.Net.HttpWebResponse] $siteDataClient.GetResponse()     
+        $sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader($response.GetResponseStream())       
+        $responseText = $sr.ReadToEnd()
+        Write-Host "CONTENT-TYPE: " $response.ContentType
+        Write-Host "RESPONSE: " $responseText
+        return $true       
+        
+    } catch [Net.WebException] { 
+        [System.Net.HttpWebResponse] $resp = [System.Net.HttpWebResponse] $_.Exception.Response
+        $sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader($resp.GetResponseStream())       
+        $responseText = $sr.ReadToEnd()
+        Write-Host "ERROR - RESPONSE: " $responseText
+               
+        Write-Host $resp.StatusCode -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Yellow       
+        Write-Host $resp.StatusDescription -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Yellow       
+        return $false
+    }
+}
+
+function Enable-AdaptorAccess {
+  Param([String]$siteCollectionURL, [String]$lockMode)
+  $canMakeRequest = Make-SiteDataRequest $siteCollectionURL
+  if ($canMakeRequest) {
+    "No need to process [$siteCollectionURL]. Adaptor user can make site data call."     
+     return;    
+  }
+  #Adaptor user can not make request to Site Collection
+  $siteCollectionURL + " is ReadOnly. Unlocking it for Adaptor user."
+  Set-SPSite -Identity $siteCollectionURL -LockState "Unlock"
+  $unlockedSite = Get-SPSite -Identity $siteCollectionURL
+  if ($unlockedSite.WriteLocked) {
+    Write-Host "[$siteCollectionURL] is still WriteLocked. Need to handle manually." -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Yellow    
+    $unlockedSite.Dispose()
+    return;
+  }
+  $unlockedSite.Dispose()
+  $canMakeRequest = Make-SiteDataRequest $siteCollectionURL
+  if ($canMakeRequest) {
+    "Success. Adaptor user can make Site Data call for [$siteCollectionURL]."
+  } else {
+    "Failure. Adaptor user still can't make Site Data call for [$siteCollectionURL]."
+  }
+  #Revert back LockState
+  Set-SPSite -Identity $siteCollectionURL -LockState $lockMode
+
+}
+
+function ProcessLockStateSites([string]$virtualServer,[string]$lockState) {
+    $sites = @(Get-SPWebApplication $virtualServer | `
+               Get-SPSite -Filter { $_.LockState -eq $lockState} | `
+               select Url, Name, ReadLocked, ReadOnly, WriteLocked)
+
+    if ($sites -eq $null -or $sites.Count -eq 0) {
+        "No $lockState Site Collections were found"
+        return
+    }
+
+    foreach($site in $sites) {
+        $siteCollectionURL = $site.Url
+        if (-not $siteCollectionURL) {
+            "Unable to get URL for Site Collection $($site.Name)"
+            continue
+        }
+        Write-Host ("Site URL[{0}] ReadOnly [{1}] ReadLocked [{2}] WriteLocked [{3}]" -f $site.Url,
+            $site.ReadOnly, $site.ReadLocked, $site.WriteLocked)
+        Enable-AdaptorAccess $siteCollectionURL $lockState
+    }
+}
+
+ProcessLockStateSites $VirtualServer "ReadOnly"
+ProcessLockStateSites $VirtualServer "NoAdditions"
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