SharePoint 2013 - MySite Newsfeed displays "There was a problem retrieving the latest activity. Please try again later"

As I continue to go into more configuration around 2013 it is bringing back the memories of all the strange things that were encountered when deploying 2010 farms not long after it released. Fortunately 2013 has been out for a little while now and there are a lot of good folk's out there that started digging in early and have posted a lot of really good information on the issues they have run across during their configurations.

This is another one of the many issues that I have run across and was fortunate to find someone else out there that posted a good article on the issue and the resolution.

This error was due to the service account that is used to run the UPA service application not having permissions on the UPA it self. After adding the service account that the UPA application pool runs under to the UPA the My Sites news feed's begain showing up correctly.

Thanks to Andy Dawson for posting his detailed article on the issue with the details of the fix. He also provides a handy powershell script so you can automate this more in your farm configurations.

Article for doing it via Central Admin
http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/adawson/post/2012/10/30/SharePoint-2013-MySite-Newsfeed-displays-There-was-a-problem-retrieving-the-latest-activity-Please-try-again-later.aspx#id_0034c967-d124-45ac-a539-1e710d5f2391

Article on powershell script
http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/adawson/post/2012/11/23/Setting-SharePoint-2013-User-Profile-Service-Application-Permissions-Using-PowerShell.aspx