The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Directory.SharePoint.Provider.UnifiedGroupContentDbOperationsJob threw an exception

In a SharePoint 2016 development environment I am seeing the following error being logged constantly:

OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0D20) 0x0D98 SharePoint Foundation Timer 6398 Critical The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Directory.SharePoint.Provider.UnifiedGroupContentDbOperationsJob (ID 038e2f91-ce67-45e8-8fb9-27d3ba751ed4) threw an exception. More information is included below.  UserProfileApplicationProxy Proxy is null. (Correlation=9deccd9d-73f6-e0e0-fc3f-1fd5c2c5f82d) 9deccd9d-73f6-e0e0-fc3f-1fd5c2c5f82d

I was able to pin this down to a timer job running every minute and failing because I have not provisioned the User Profile Service.  As this is just a lab environment, and I don’t want to provision the User Profile Service, I am going to disable the jobs.  Here is how:

1. Log in to Central Administration
2. Click the Monitoring link on the left and then under Timer Jobs click Review job definitions
3. On the left click Job History
4. Change the View from All to Failed Jobs
5. Click the link for the failed job – in my case I am disabling the following jobs:- UserProfileApplicationProxy – Per Database User Profile to SharePoint Full Synchronization
   – UserProfileApplicationProxy – Unified Group Processing High Performance Job
6. Click Disable

The logs are no longer cluttered with the EventID 6398 error!