No User Profile Application available to service the request. Contact your farm administrator

Sometimes you try to acess UserProfileManager class using PowerShell you get the ‘No User Profile Application available to service the request. Contact your farm administrator.’ error? It’s because of permissions issue – in order to access a Service Application you need to have the appropriate access permissions. Fixing the problem manually is pretty straightforward, simply add the appropriate account to the list and you’re done. For this go to Central Admin > Manage service Applications > Permissions > Add your account and give it Full Control rights.  NOW, go back and try again - this time it should work.