AvailabilityReplica.Role property is always "Unknown"?

Question

Whenever I query AvailabilityReplica.Role property it is always “Unknown” for all the replica servers participating in the AAG except for the one that I’m making the call on.
I do not see this problem when I make the call on primary replica server.

Any idea why it behaves like this and how to get the right information? I do not want to make call to each replica server to get the details.

See the output below.

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AAG details:
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AAG name: Lakers_Fluke
AAG Parent: [fluke]
AAG Primary Replica Server Name: LAKERS
AAG State: Existing
AAG Local Replica Role: Secondary
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REPLICA SERVERS FOLLOWS:
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Replica Server 1.

AAG replica name: FLUKE
AAG Parent: [Lakers_Fluke]
AAG State: Existing
AAG replica mode: AsynchronousCommit
AAG SConnection tate: Connected
AAG Operational State: Online
AAG Role: Secondary

Replica Server 2.

AAG replica name: LAKERS
AAG Parent: [Lakers_Fluke]
AAG State: Existing
AAG replica mode: AsynchronousCommit
AAG SConnection tate: Unknown
AAG Operational State: Unknown
AAG Role: Unknown

Replica Server 3.

AAG replica name: WARRIORS
AAG Parent: [Lakers_Fluke]
AAG State: Existing
AAG replica mode: AsynchronousCommit
AAG SConnection tate: Unknown
AAG Operational State: Unknown
AAG Role: Unknown
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Answer 1

Here is my observation after connecting to a replica server through SMO and querying for AAG properties...

If the replica server role is not primary, roles of other replica servers in the group are always unknown. If it is primary it gets me the roles of all serves correctly.

Please help me with it.