We are currently encountering a strange behaviour when we reach the URL /person.aspx where we are stuck with the message "we're almost ready".
The problem occurs in our different SharePoint 2019 environments with our WebApplication dedicated to OneDrive.
Our settings are the following ones:
WebApplication dedicated to OneDrive
- Authentication: NTLM + ADFS
- Special policy applied to everyon for MySite: create subsites; view pages; browser user information; open
- Self-Service site creation: On; Hide the create command
- Managed paths: personal; wilcard inclusion
- User Profile Service Application: all accounts are synchronized; site naming format set to resolve conflicts by using domain_username; My Site newsfeed enabled
Regarding the permissions for the User Profile Service Application, we did the following things:
- NT AUTORITY\Authenticated Users: create personal site, follow people and edit profile, use tags and notes
- All Authenticated Users: create personal site, follow people and edit profile, use tags and notes
- All Users (trusted: adfs provider for sharepoint): create personal site, follow people and edit profile, use tags and notes
The Distributed Cache is also started and running.
We also have another WeAbbplication dedicated to SharePoint Team Sites with its own instance of the User Profile Service where the My Site Host location is set to target the one set for the OneDrive WebApplication.
We have various environments with the following configuration:
- DEV: 1 Front End Server, 1 SQL Server
- TEST: 1 Front End Server, 1 SQL Server
- STAGING: 1 Front End Server, 1 Application Server, 1 SQL Server
- PRODUCTION: 2 Front End Servers, 1 Application Server, 2 SQL Servers
Our WebApplications have the same settings in every environment. However, we got the same problem everywhere. The more relevant error we spotted in the logs in the following one:
Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFeedManager.GetFeedFor: Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialException: No personal site exists for the current user, and no further information is available. Internal type name: Microsoft.Office.Server.Microfeed.MicrofeedException. Internal error code: 78.
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.TryTranslateExceptionAndThrow(Exception exception)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.InvokeWithExceptionTranslation[T](ISocialOperationManager target, String name, Func`1 func)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFeedManager.<>c__DisplayClass4e`1.<S2SInvoke>b__4d()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.InvokeWithExceptionTranslation[T](ISocialOperationManager target, String name, Func`1 func)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialFeedManager.<>c__DisplayClass31.<GetFeedFor>b__2f()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Social.SPSocialUtil.InvokeWithExceptionTranslation[T](ISocialOperationManager target, String name, Func`1 func)
After hours of research on the Internet, we checked all the following settings:
- Policies on WebApplication dedicated to OneDrive
- Managed path "personal" on WebApplication dedicated to OneDrive
- Permissions for the User Profile Service Application
- Status of the Distributed Cache
- Restart Timer Service
- Run "User Profile Service Application - Activity Feed Job" manually
We tried to delete the generated Site Collections in the WebApplication dedicated to OneDrive for various users, but no change happened. We also tried to set a higher value manually for "Personal Site Capabilities", but with no more success. What it is interesting is that the field "Personal site" is correctly filed.
Users are authenticated through ADFS. In the User Profile Service Application, the account name is the UPN, looking like "i:0e.t|adfs provider for sharepoint|[email protected]". When our various users try to reach our WebApplications, they are firstly redirect to adfs.domain.com. So, in our OneDrive WebApplication, URL will look like /personal/username(_domain_com). That value matches with the "Personal site" field.
Currently, we are running SharePoint Server 2019 16.0.10337.12109 with 16.0.10359.20000 Security Patch. Our configuration database version is 16.0.10359.20000. Language dependent patches are also installed.
The OneDrive WebApplication seems to work well. The problem only occurs when a user tries to reach /person.aspx.
Has anyone encountered such a behaviour? Any help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
