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Brian

Yes thanks for your reply. You are right, I was trying to see a marker for this issue and I can see the this occurs before

Essentially for this Live install has been very problematic for various reasons e.g roaming profile problems and storage resources. Anyway, what I have seen
is a partially created farm that has my main web app , but no site collections. I notice the none of the SharePoint web services are installed. Server given to me with SP1 but I did notice some unsuccessful windows updates.

When the server is in this state you get this sort of error the script attempts to install a site collecton

Creating Site Collection Http://whatever.com
Exception        :system.UnathorisedAcessException:  <nativehr>0x80070005<nativehr>

Due to time constraints, I had the server rebuilt and the script worked unchanged.
Perhaps there is a need for a status check to test what is the minimum infrastructure that should be in place ( before the first Sc is created) on top of the config database being connected to:

• Test valid end points for xyx SharePoint Web Services
• test the xyx SharePoint / windows services are in place
• test the features that should be been enabled note Install-Features didn't show any errors when I ran it once my script bombed out.
  

happy to volunteer if needed to develop / test/