SharePoint 2016 – Resolving exception – SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper::InitializeDataCacheFactory – No cache hosts are present in the farm Unexpected Exception in SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper:’DistributedLogonTokenCache’ – Exception ‘System.InvalidOperationException’

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SharePoint Migration continues 🙂 Today new issue and solution

Details:

• We have migrated our SharePoint 2013 application to SharePoint 2016
• We had successful migration
• There were some issue in opening few pages so started digging into ULS logs
• In logs found that, logs are flooded with error related to Distributed Cache Service

Error – Distributed Cache exception in SharePoint log

SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper::InitializeDataCacheFactory – No cache hosts are present in the farm.              

06/03/2021 01:26:47.38               w3wp.exe (0x1868)                                       0x2260  SharePoint Foundation                         DistributedCache                            ah24w   Unexpected       Unexpected Exception in SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper::InitializeDataCacheFactory for usage ‘DistributedLogonTokenCache’ – Exception ‘System.InvalidOperationException: SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper::InitializeDataCacheFactory – No cache hosts present in the farm.     at Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper.InitializeDataCacheFactory()’.        

06/03/2021 01:26:47.38               w3wp.exe (0x1868)                                       0x2260  SharePoint Foundation                         DistributedCache                            air4g      Monitorable       Token Cache: Failed to initialize SPDistributedSecurityTokenCache  Exception: ‘System.InvalidOperationException: SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper::InitializeDataCacheFactory – No cache hosts present in the farm.     at Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper.InitializeDataCacheFactory()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.SPDistributedCache..ctor(String name, TimeSpan timeToLive, SPDistributedCacheContainerType containerType, Boolean encryptData)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPDistributedSecurityTokenCache..ctor(String name, TimeSpan timeToLive, SPDistributedCacheContainerType containerType, Boolean encrptyData, TimeSpan minimumTokenExpirationWindow)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPDistributedSecurityTokenCacheInitializer…

Issue :

• While preparing SharePoint server, we have missed the configuring Distributed Cache Service on WFEs
• Distributed cache service is not registered
• We were not able to see the “Distributed Cache service” listed on the “Service on Server”page in Central Administration

Solution : We need to Add a WFEs to the cache cluster and starting the Distributed Cache service by using SharePoint Management Shell

• Start the SharePoint Management Shell on WFE which we need to add to cache-cluster
• Execute the following CMDLET

Add-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance

What is Distributed Cache Service :

• Distributed Cache service provides caching functionality for following features
  • Authentication
  • Newsfeeds
  • OneNote client access
  • Security Trimming
  • Page load performance
• For more details please have a look at references at reference section

Reference :

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SharePoint/administration/manage-the-distributed-cache-service?redirectedfrom=MSDN
• https://technet2.github.io/Wiki/articles/20348.sharepoint-2013-appfabric-and-distributed-cache-service.html

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