Following of Content not working

So after setting up a SharePoint 2013 environment that consisted of two web apps, one for collaboration, the other for the my sites, it seemed the Following of Content was broken. Kept on getting an error message that stated "InternalError : Could not follow the item ..."

I used separate application pools using different accounts. When I followed content in my own personal sites the Following of Content worked, but kept on getting an error when Following Content in the collaboration site. I was unable to find any related errors in the ULS.

Could not find a conclusive answer after googling, but it seemed to be db permission related.

Solution

In SQL I added the application pool account that was being used by the collaboration site to the MySite content db and gave it SPDataAccess permission.

AD Containers not Showing

I've run into this one a few times, so you busy creating a new connection to AD and everything is going smoothly until you try to expand the AD tree to select your containers. You have double checked that the account you are using to access AD is setup correctly, but still the tree won't expand. 
In my case is was the  Local Policy setting that needed to be changed.

Go to Local Policies, Security Options. Select "network security: LDAP client signing requirements", change the value  from “negotiate signing “  to "None". 

Once that is done I had to restart the server, I also opened up a new browser window and created the connection again, this time the AD container tree expanded as expected.

SharePoint 2013 - Central Admin Theme Change

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Good to know when you are working on multiple farms.

Just add _layouts/themeweb.aspx  to the end of  your CA URL.

SharePoint 2013 - CA Change Suite Link Bar

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Great way of knowing which CA site you are currently working on. 

$ca = Get-SPWebApplication -IncludeCentralAdministration | ?{$_.IsAdministrationWebApplication -eq $true}

$ca.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml = "<div class='ms-core-brandingText'>Central Admin: FarmA Production</div>"

$ca.Update()