'Connect-PnPOnline' not recognized as a name of a cmdlet when running from Azure Runbook

[DavorSukeri]

Ok, I'm newbie with Azure Runbooks, but didn't think I will face problems this early. :D

So I'm trying to run PnP Powershell script to fetch user profile attributes from EntraID profiles and write them to SharePoint user profiles and schedule it to run weekly.

I have imported PnP PowerShell module (module version 3.1.0, runtime version 7.2.) to the Azure Automation account (and I can see it when browsing the imported modules) and assigned permissions to SharePoint to the Managed Identity like this:

• Add-PnPAzureADServicePrincipalAppRole -Principal "managed identity object id here" -AppRole "Sites.FullControl.All" -BuiltInType SharePointOnline.

However when I'm testing my script I get this:

Connect-PnPOnline -URL https://xxx.sharepoint.com/ -ManagedIdentity

Then I tried to add Import-Module PnP.PowerShell before the Connect-PnPOnline cmdlet and I get this:

However if run Install-Module -Name PnP.PowerShell before the Connect-PnPOnline cmdlet I don't get those errors, but surely I'm not supposed to install module everytime I run the script.

So two questions:

1. Is it necessary to include _Import-Module PnP.PowerShell_before the Connect-PnPOnline cmdlet (since the module is already imported to the Automation Account?
2. If yes, do I really need to update PowerShell version from 7.2. to 7.4.6 so that I can Import-Module PnP.PowerShell ? I'm not even sure yet how that is done....am I required to update PowerShell version globally to version 7.4.6 or what...