Access is denied - confusion over COPY-ITEM - powershell

Question

I am trying to copy some files from my server to a workstation. If I change $Foldername to C:\the process works fine. However if I leave the code the way it is, i.e. If I decide to copy files to C:\Program Files\Interrogator.
I get this error:
Copy-Item : Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Interrogator\Setup Instructions.txt' is denied.
At C:\Users\coduy\Desktop\Copy2Test.ps1:20 char:10
+ Copy-Item <<<< -Path \\10.10.0.10\DeploymentShare\Applications\JDE-Interrogator\* -Destination $Foldername
+ CategoryInfo : PermissionDenied: (\\10.10.0.10\De...nstructions.txt:FileInfo) [Copy-Item], Unauthorized
AccessException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CopyFileInfoItemUnauthorizedAccessError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand
I can see that the access is denied but why? I have not shared any of the folders and that should not make any difference if I decide to copy to C:\ or C:\Program Files
$net = New-Object -comobject Wscript.Network
$net.MapNetworkDrive("Z:","\\10.13.0.10\DeploymentShare\Applications\JDE Interrogator",0,"mydomain\coduy","P0kroy$")
$uncServer = "\\10.10.0.10\"
$uncFullPath = "\\10.13.0.10\DeploymentShare\Applications\JDE Interrogator"
$username = "coduy"
$password = "password"
$Foldername="C:\Program Files\Interrogator"
net use $uncServer $password /USER:$username
try
{
mkdir C:\'Program Files'\Interrogator
Copy-Item -Path \\10.10.0.10\DeploymentShare\Applications\JDE-Interrogator\* -Destination $Foldername
}
finally {
net use $uncServer /delete
}

Answer 1

Found out that other user has similar issue and this seems to be a reasonable answer:
Windows Vista and above default to not allowing non-administrative
users to write to the `%PROGRAMFILES% folder. This means that you're
not going to be allowed to copy the files there; you're also not going
to be able to save them after doing your find/replace operation.
You can write them to your user documents folder
(%USERPROFILE%\Documents) folder instead, if that will work for you.
share|edit answered Dec 23 '12 at 6:32
Ken White
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