MySite Links Broken

Question

Hello,
I'm hoping someone has seen this before and can provide some insight as I'm not sure what the cause is. I have the whole My Sites and Search and Profile Sync, etc. configured and working.
I've started creating a People Search page in the Enterprise Search page, and at first, when clicking on a user's name in the search results we were able to go that persons MySite page with no problems. But now, the link to the MySite profile page is incorrect,
because the link itself is introducing a special character for the slash in between the domain and user's name IE; domain\username. The link actually looks like this when hovering over it;
domain%5CUsername instead of domain\username.
If I click on the name with the malformed link, I get an error that the user is not found. If I change %5C to \ in the URL, it works. I'm not 100% sure how this seems to have been broken, but I'm hoping it is something common. Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Hi,
Since the bug is still present after applying the August CU updates, you still need to wait the update.
I recommend that you can use the
global workaround method to solve this issue.
http://thesharepointfarm.com/2014/06/workaround-ms14-022-double-encoding-bug/
Also, you can add a Script Editor Web Part to results.aspx with the following script to directly
modify the link:
<script language="javascript">
function customReplaceAll(str, find, replace) {
return str.replace(new RegExp(find, 'g'), replace);
$('.ms-searchCenter-result-main').on("click", "a", function (event) {
var url= $(this).attr('href');
var url2 = customReplaceAll(url, "%2520", "%20");
var url2 = customReplaceAll(url2, "%255C", "%5C");
var url2 = customReplaceAll(url2, "%252E", "%2E");
$(this).attr('href', url2);
</script>
For more information, you can refer to:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/17005728-3e68-49f5-8882-85cc8260e53b/people-search-error?forum=sharepointgeneral
Best Regards,
Linda Li
TechNet Community Support