Enumerating Sharepoint User Profiles – Access Denied Exception

While enumerating Sharepoint user profiles like this

foreach (Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfile userProfile in profileManager)

if the user don’t have administrator privileges, then the following exception will occur.

“System.UnAuthorizedException : Access Denied – Only Administrator may enumerate through all user profiles”.

To resolve this, proceed with the following steps..

1. Go to SSP – > Personalization services permissions

2.  Modify Permissions for NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users

3. Select the option “User Profile Manager” and Save.

Now you are ready to enumerate the Sharepoint User Profiles…