diff --git a/kpi/deployment_backends/kc_access/utils.py b/kpi/deployment_backends/kc_access/utils.py
index 03ee31e4d3..617510d7bd 100644
--- a/kpi/deployment_backends/kc_access/utils.py
+++ b/kpi/deployment_backends/kc_access/utils.py
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ def _trigger_kc_profile_creation(user):
     UserProfile if none exists already
     """
     url = settings.KOBOCAT_URL + '/api/v1/user'
-    token = Token.objects.using('kobocat').get(user=user)
+    kobo_user = User.objects.using('kobocat').get(username=user.username)
+    token = Token.objects.using('kobocat').get(user=kobo_user)
     response = requests.get(
         url, headers={'Authorization': 'Token ' + token.key})
     if not response.status_code == 200:
diff --git a/kpi/deployment_backends/kobocat_backend.py b/kpi/deployment_backends/kobocat_backend.py
index 49da30f128..b0fb42fd4c 100644
--- a/kpi/deployment_backends/kobocat_backend.py
+++ b/kpi/deployment_backends/kobocat_backend.py
@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@
 
 import requests
 from django.conf import settings
-from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
-from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 from django.utils.six import text_type
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from rest_framework import status, serializers
 from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
+from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
+from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
 from kpi.constants import INSTANCE_FORMAT_TYPE_JSON, INSTANCE_FORMAT_TYPE_XML
 from kpi.utils.log import logging
@@ -298,7 +299,7 @@ def redeploy(self, active=None):
                 return self.connect(self.identifier, active)
             raise
 
-        self.set_asset_uid()
+        # self.set_asset_uid()
 
     def set_active(self, active):
         """
@@ -735,7 +736,8 @@ def __kobocat_proxy_request(kc_request, user=None):
         :return: requests.models.Response
         """
         if not user.is_anonymous and user.pk != settings.ANONYMOUS_USER_ID:
-            token, created = Token.objects.get_or_create(user=user)
+            token = User.objects.using("kobocat").select_related("auth_token").get(
+                username=user.username).auth_token
             kc_request.headers['Authorization'] = 'Token %s' % token.key
         session = requests.Session()
         return session.send(kc_request.prepare())
diff --git a/kpi/models/import_export_task.py b/kpi/models/import_export_task.py
index af253dc102..e852939350 100644
--- a/kpi/models/import_export_task.py
+++ b/kpi/models/import_export_task.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 import requests
 from django.conf import settings
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
 from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
 from django.urls import Resolver404, resolve
@@ -176,7 +177,10 @@ def _run_task(self, messages):
             # TODO: merge with `url` handling above; currently kept separate
             # because `_load_assets_from_url()` uses complex logic to deal with
             # multiple XLS files in a directory structure within a ZIP archive
-            headers = {'Authorization': 'Token ' + self.user.auth_token.key}
+            username = self.user.username
+            token = User.objects.using("kobocat").select_related("auth_token").get(
+                username=username).auth_token.key
+            headers = {'Authorization': 'Token ' + token}
             response = requests.get(
                 self.data['single_xls_url'], headers=headers
             )
@@ -265,7 +269,9 @@ def get_form_payload(self, form_id):
         url = '{}/api/v1/forms/{}'.format(
             settings.KOBOCAT_INTERNAL_URL, form_id
         )
-        token, _ = Token.objects.get_or_create(user=self.user)
+        username=self.user.username
+        token = User.objects.using("kobocat").select_related("auth_token").get(
+                username=username).auth_token
 
         response = requests.get(
             url, headers={'Authorization': 'Token ' + token.key}