Solving the No User Profile Application available to service the request. Contact your farm administrator error when using Powershell to modify SharePoint 2010 user profiles

SharePoint permissions can be quite tricky – yesterday I stumbled upon an error “No User Profile Application available to service the request. Contact your farm administrator." when trying to update SharePoint 2010 user profiles using Powershell – luckily Steve explained what was wrong “No User Profile Application Available” Mystery in SharePoint 2010.

You have to configure security in 2 different places:

• Click the administrators button on the Service Applications page and add yourself with Full Control
• On the same page you will also notice a permissions button to the far right – don’t forget to add your account here as well

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