Tag: onedrive for business blank page

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/