Copy-SPTaxonomyGroups - The local farm is not accessible.

[Bob Mixon]

Greetings,

I am configuring Hybrid Taxonomy and am running into the following error when I run the Copy-SPTaxonomyGroups cmdlet.

The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered.

cmdlet Get-Credential at command pipeline position 1

Supply values for the following parameters:

Copy-SPTaxonomyGroups : The 'username' argument is invalid.

The account I am using is a global admin in Office 365 and a farm admin in SharePoint 2016 on-premise.

Any idea what's causing this error?

Thank you!

Bob

[#2]

Usually this error arises when you don't run the SharePoint Management Shell 'as Administrator'.

[#3]

Hi @Trevor Seward,

Thank you for the quick response. I'm running PS as my admin account; which is a global admin in O365 and a farm admin. Let me try some other combinations and just run as admin.

Thank you!

Bob

[#4]

Well, again you have to run PoSh "as administrator" otherwise you will not be running with an admin token.

For the cmdlet, make sure to specify a cloud-only, non-MFA enabled account for connecting to Office 365. But you're not getting quite that far.

Only other thing I can think of is make sure that you're patching with both the sts-x-none and wssmui patches for a given month. I find people often only patch the sts-x-none patch (typically a security patch) and miss that they also need to install the wssmui patch, if one is available for that month, or the most recent month one is available.