IE History Permissions for other users - powershell

Question

I have a script which I think is most of the way to being able to grab IE history for all of the users on a machine. My problem is it doesn't work for users other than myself because I get a permissions error when attempting open the folder. Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix the permissions problem?
I'm running this script on a Windows 2012r2 machine and I am an administrator on the box.
Thanks!
function Get-History
{
param
(
[string]$userName
)
$shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
if($username)
{
$users = $username
}
else
{
$users = Get-ChildItem C:\Users
}
if((([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole]"Administrator")))
{
Foreach($user in $users)
{
$user = Split-Path $user -leaf
try
{
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$hist = $shell.NameSpace("C:\Users\$user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History")
}
catch
{
continue
}
$folder = $hist.Self
#$folder.Path
if($hist){
$hist.Items() | foreach {
#""; ""; $_.Name
if ($_.IsFolder) {
$siteFolder = $_.GetFolder
$siteFolder.Items() | foreach {
$site = $_
#""; $site.Name
if ($site.IsFolder) {
$pageFolder = $site.GetFolder
$pageFolder.Items() | foreach {
$url = $pageFolder.GetDetailsOf($_,0)
$date = $pageFolder.GetDetailsOf($_,2)
#"$user`: $date visited $url"
#Write-Output ("$user,$date,`"$url`"" | ConvertFrom-Csv)
New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property #{
user=$user;
date = $date;
url = $url
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
else
{
Write-Host "Not Admin"
}
}
If I run just the small snippet:
$shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
$hist = $shell.NameSpace("C:\Users\MyOwnUsername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History")
Then I successfully assign the $hist variable as a System.__ComObject
But if I run:
$shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
$hist = $shell.NameSpace("C:\Users\SomeOtherUser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History")
I get:
Exception calling "NameSpace" with "1" argument(s): "Unspecified error (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004005 (E_FAIL))"
At line:3 char:1
+ $hist = $shell.NameSpace("C:\Users\SomeOtherUser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComMethodTargetInvocation
Full Disclosure: it's a slight modification of the script at this blog post

Answer 1

I never solved the permissions problem. I changed strategy to use BrowsingHistoryViewer by Nirsoft.
$execPath = "C:\BrowsingHistoryView.exe"
$computers = 'computer1','computer2','computer3','computer4'
$outPath = "c:\"
$computers |
ForEach-Object{ `
Start-Process $execPath `
-argumentList "/HistorySource 3",
"/HistorySourceFolder ""\\$_\c$\Users""",
"/scomma ""$outpath\history_$_.txt"""
}