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I have a missing term group in my tenant. It's not showing in the admin center where the term store is managed. So I found those very helpful PnP Cmdlets Export-PnPTermGroupToXml and Import-PnPTermGroupFromXml.

With those I was able to determine that the term group actually still exists in the back-end.

I'm able to export it and the import throws the error:

Termset ID is already present in termstore.

Is there a way of getting this term group or term set re-imported?

Thanks for your help.

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  • Where did you export the termsets? from your current tenant, then re-import it again? The error shows the termset ID has existed.
    – Kally
    Commented Jul 25, 2019 at 7:44
  • Well, I'm doing Connect-PnPOnline https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com/ followed by Export-PnPTermGroupToXml -Identity "termgroupID. This exports an xml to my local hard drive. Then I do Import-PnPTermGroupFromXml -Path "localpath" and I get the aforementioned error message. To me this means that the term group is still present in the term store but it can't be found though the GUI. Any idea?
    – colonel_claypoo
    Commented Jul 25, 2019 at 10:06
  • what permission did your account have on your tenant? are you global administrator？
    – Kally
    Commented Jul 26, 2019 at 6:28
  • Yes, I'm the global administrator. Thus far the group 'Company Administrator' was set for the term store but I've also added my own user as well. It shouldn't make a difference as I'm automatically a member of 'Company Administrator' by way of my global administrator role. I verified and the cmdlets still throw the same error. It might try to remove the apparently existing term group but not sure if I should do that. What do you think? Thanks.
    – colonel_claypoo
    Commented Jul 26, 2019 at 8:23

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Please try to set your account as a Term Store Administrator like the below: enter image description here

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  • I appreciate your help. Did that but unfortunately same error. It's kinda logical why the error occurs. I'm exporting a term group from the term store and importing it in the same place. Obviously it already exists. What I just don't get is why I can't see it in the GUI. Actually, executing Get-PnPTermGroup -TermStore $tenantTermStore.Id | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*TermGroupName" } shows that there're four term groups with an identical name but different Id's- However, only one contains the term sets I wanted to restore. How can this be?
    – colonel_claypoo
    Commented Jul 26, 2019 at 11:07

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