User profile service application status starting in sharepoint 2016

Question

I have an intranet farm with 2 application, 3 WFE servers there is user profile service running in 3 servers one app and in 2 wfe servers.

In central administraton>Manage service applications user profile service application status showing starting and I cannot create new synchronization connections.

Answer 1

Run the following:

$sa = Get-SPServiceApplication | ?{$_.TypeName -match 'Profile'}
$sa.Status = 'Online'
$sa.Update()

Answer 2

There is a really fantastic article written by harbar for sp 2010 which applies even to 2016 on this topic . Go through the list of steps in it and it will almost always fix the issue for you - http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups2.aspx