The data protection operation was unsuccessful on Azure using OWIN / Katana

Question

I\'m trying to implement password reset on an OWIN/Katana based ASP.NET MVC website running in Azure.

It works fine when run locally but fails in production.

Answer 1

I have the same problem when I try to generate token with ASP .Net identity and custom login function in Web API.

"The data protection operation was unsuccessful. This may have been caused by not having the user profile loaded for the current thread's user context, which may be the case when the thread is impersonating."

What I did is just simply create an Application Setting called WEBSITE_LOAD_USER_PROFILE in Microsoft Azure and set it to 1. That solution works for me.

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