Disable redirection from user details page UserDisp.aspx to MySite Person.aspx in Sharepoint

As you probably know Sharepoint has built in Created By and Modified By fields which are automatically added to all list items and documents which added to Sharepoint. Under the hood it is done by defining these fields in base content type derived by all other content types. If you add these fields to list views they will be clickable – it will be possible to click on user name and go to user details page UserDisp.aspx which will show user’s attributes (synced with AD if you use Windows authentication).

However in some cases you may notice that instead of UserDisp.aspx Sharepoint redirects to user profile page Person.aspx in MySites web application. If you are not planning to use user profiles and MySites in your Sharepoint site then this behavior may be unwanted and it may be needed to disable this automatic redirection.

Technically redirect is made by MySiteRedirection.ascx user control which is added by MySite farm scope feature (FeatureId = 69cc9662-d373-47fc-9449-f18d11ff732c) which has the following elements.xml file:

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
    <Control Id="ProfileRedirection" Sequence="100" ControlSrc="~/_controltemplates/mysiteredirection.ascx"/>
    <Control Id="MobileSiteNavigationLink1" Sequence="100"
        ControlClass="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.MobileControls.MobileMySitePageNavigation"
        ControlAssembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c">
    </Control>
</Elements>

In order to disable redirection we need to deactivate this feature:

Disable-SPFeature -Id 69cc9662-d373-47fc-9449-f18d11ff732c

After that after clicking user names in Created By/Modified By columns (and all other clickable columns of User or group type) user will be redirected to regular UserDisp.aspx page