Endpoint failure error in Event logs for Sharepoint server 2013

Question

Hi,
There are lot of errors in our app server event logs as below

A failure was reported when trying to invoke a service application: EndpointFailure
Process Name: w3wp
Process ID: 6200
AppDomain Name: /LM/W3SVC/2/ROOT/0f1ecfccbfba427993e5a80d9277ee87-1-132788223653476307
AppDomain ID: 2
Service Application Uri: urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:service:0f1ecfccbfba427993e5a80d9277ee87#authority=urn:uuid:94a24f8bfb474faea7c7b6db15363e9c&authority=https://decommissoned old SP server1:32844/Topology/topology.svc
Active Endpoints: 2
Failed Endpoints:2
Affected Endpoint: http://Curren wfe2:32843/0f1ecfccbfba427993e5a80d9277ee87/ProfileService.svc

From the above error msg
https://decommissoned old SP server:32844/Topology/topology.svc
Affected Endpoint: http://Current wfe2:32843/0f1ecfccbfba427993e5a80d9277ee87/ProfileService.svc

This has started since July as one of the server was decommissioned around the same month.

Can some one help me in understanding this?

Regards,
Susmitha.

Answer 1

Hi @susmitha ,

As this post mentioned, the issue is related to the internal SharePoint topology service, which channels service application requests to their correct location. if you have more than one server on which that "SharePoint Service" is running (in your case User Profile service), the topology service will round-robin the requests.

In normal circumstances you shouldn't see that problem. SharePoint thinks that the end point is valid.

You can try to fix this by stopping and starting the "User Profile service" in Central Administration. Also check whether the account running your user profile service is an account with the correct permissions. Then try iisreset. By the way, have you installed CU recently?

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