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  • OneDrive for Business Loading a Blank Page – SharePoint 2016 MySite

    Are you having an issue with OneDrive for Business loading just a blank page? Or your mysite redirecting to a blank page (which is actually onedrive)? It was so frustrating to solve this because I saw it frequently posted online that SharePoint 2016 Feature Pack 1 “broke” it. It makes your onedrive default to the modern experience but nobody was posting how to solve it.  I ended up finding an article that showed how to revert to the classic experience which is shown below:

    Run this on your front end server in SharePoint Management shell:

    $Farm = Get-SPFarm
    
    $Farm.OneDriveUserExperienceVersion = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.OneDriveUserExperienceVersion]::Version1
    
    $Farm.Update()

    I ran that and it worked! My page was now loading but what if I wanted the modern experience? I did some more digging and found an msdn article that indicated we needed this hotfix to solve the issue.

    After downloading and running this hotfix package on every SharePoint server, I wanted to turn the modern experience back on. I ran the following powershell script in SharePoint Management Shell to turn it back on:

    $Farm = Get-SPFarm
    
    $Farm.OneDriveUserExperienceVersion = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.OneDriveUserExperienceVersion]::Version2
    
    $Farm.Update()

    Now it’s working! Finally! I hope this was helpful.

    Reference: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/spses/2017/02/15/sharepoint-2016-modern-onedrive-user-experience-results-in-blank-page/ 

  • SharePoint 2016

    Yay for new updates. It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here and my husband is now going to be joining forces with me! He is now a SharePoint Administrator as well so we have 2 different viewpoints. SharePoint 2016 has been out for a while but we are BOTH just beginning the migration/upgrade over to it. My husband is going the third party route going from 2010 to 2016 while I’m doing the database attach route going from 2013 to 2016. I’m sure we will both have a lot to contribute to the site in the coming weeks/months ahead. Stay tuned!