Hybrid Picker prerequisite check fail in a consuming farm

Symptom

Consider the following scenario:

• In a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 cross-farm environment, you have a publishing farm (farm P) and a consuming farm (farm C).
• You publish a User Profile service application in farm P and consume it in farm C.
• You run the Hybrid Picker wizard in farm C.

In this scenario, the following prerequisite check fails:

The SPO365LinkSettings cmdlet is accessible on the server.

Note You may continue with the Hybrid Picker wizard. However, the changes that are made by the SPO365LinkSettings cmdlet won't be configured.

When you run the Get-SPO365LinkSettings cmdlet in SharePoint management shell, you receive the following error message:

Get-SPO365LinkSettings : UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException_Logging :: UserProfileApplicationProxy.UserProfileApplication has null upa  
 At line:1 char:1  
 + Get-SPO365LinkSettings  
 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
 + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Offic...GetLinkSettings:SPO365GetLinkSettings) [Get-SPO365LinkSettings], UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException  
 + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.Powershell.SPO365GetLinkSetttings       

Cause

The issue occurs because running Hybrid Picker from a consuming farm that consumes the User Profile service application from a publishing farm isn't supported yet.

More Information

Microsoft is aware of this issue and will address it in a future update.

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