Checking and granting ShellAdmin rights

You can check which users has enough permissions by running:

Get-SPShellAdmin

If your current user doesn't have enough permissions you can grant ShellAdmin rights by running:

Add-SPShellAdmin -UserName <domain>\<username> -database <DB Name>

See these pages for more information:

• http://www.andrewshough.com/development/sharepoint/bulk-upload-of-profile-pictures-using-powershell/ (beginning of article)
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg490648.aspx