Inconsistent behavior in using Taxonomy API

We're currently developing a solution that involves several types of Taxonomy operations: Loading Terms Creating Terms (if not exist) Creating Term Labels (if not exist) Reusing Terms (if n...

Tom Castiglia

Iron Contributor

Jun 05, 2018

Hi Paul -

I'm curious if you've made progress on this this. I am also seeing the error:

The HTTP service located at http://usr19769-643:32843/3115c78f4d804003b5964d1cb5b56042/MetadataWebService.svc is unavailable

In my case, I was using PnP PowerShell (Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate) to deploy new Managed Metadata fields and anchor them to an existing term set. I was running this after creating a new site. I added a Sleep for 120 seconds after site creation and before applying the template. I still saw this error. Then I set it to sleep for 180 seconds and I did not see the error. I need to do more testing to see if 180 seconds is sufficient in all cases or if I'll need to implement retries as you have done.

Regards,

Tom Castiglia