The Local Farm Is Not Accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependency are not registered. How to fix this properly

So you have started to administer SharePoint 2010 using a non-farm account. You try to open the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and you are greeted with this error:

The Local Farm Is Not Accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependency are not registered

You Bing this error and find a lot of blog posts that suggests you to open SQL Server Manager and give DBO permissions to all the related SharePoint databases; content, config etc.

Please don’t do that.

Here’s the proper way to give your account the needed permissions:

Open the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell with an account that already has farm permissions.

Permission the desired account using:

add-spshelladmin -username domain\username

That’s the proper way of doing it.

You can also check which accounts has shell admin rights:

get-spshelladmin