The local farm is not accessible
Every now and then when I run my SharePoint PowerShell scripts I’m getting the following error:
The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered.
I keep forgetting about the solution so I thought I create my favourite type of blog articles. A short blog article.
Making a user Shell Admin
So I need to make my user a Shell admin with this command
Add-SPShellAdmin -UserName CONTOSO\User1
Easy, I start my SharePoint Management Shell and run the above command and … my next error:
You need to have machine administrator privileges to run this cmdlet
Don’t forget to run the shell as an administrator with the run as administrator option.