Today I’ve had the error:
Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (150CA1DD-02E3-47C0-AA55-005A2927751F).
Reason: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SearchDataAccessServiceInstance was updated by DOMAINspfarm, in the OWSTIMER (5040) process, on machine sps2010.
View the tracing log for more information about the conflict.Technical Support Details:
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action.
The object SearchDataAccessServiceInstance was updated by domainuser, in the OWSTIMER (5040) process, on machine (server name).
View the tracing log for more information about the conflict.
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)
There is a nice article on Jeff DeVerter’s blog:
Jeff references to this articles:
- http://goodbadtechnology.blogspot.com/2010/07/error-message-when-you-try-to-start.html
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939308
I had to clean up lots of servers. Because of that I’ve created a little PowerShell script.
The script will automatically process all steps descripted by the KB article, Chaitu Madala and Jeff.
You can execute the script on every server.
If your receive a yellow message at the end of the process that the resulting “cache.ini” file is diffrent from the original one. I think the cache.ini file contains a timestamp and it is OK if the new timestamp value is greater than the original one… But you use the script at your own rist – as always.
SCRIPT:
# Script created by Ingo Karstein (https://blog.kenaro.com) Write-Host "Script created by Ingo Karstein (https://blog.kenaro.com)" -ForegroundColor DarkGreen $cacheFolderRoot = Join-Path ${env:ProgramData} "MicrosoftSharePointConfig" $cacheFileCopy = Join-Path ${env:temp} "cacheFileTmp.ini.ik" Write-Host "" -ForegroundColor DarkBlue Write-Host "Starting" -ForegroundColor DarkBlue if( Test-Path $cacheFileCopy -PathType Leaf) { write-host "Cache File copy lopcation does already exist. Please remove it: $($cacheFileCopy)" -ForegroundColor Red return } Write-Host "Looking for cache folder" -ForegroundColor DarkBlue $cacheFolder = @(GEt-ChildItem -Path $cacheFolderRoot | ? {Test-Path $_.FullName -PathType Container} | ? {Test-Path -Path (Join-Path $_.FullName "cache.ini") -PathType Leaf}) if( $cacheFolder -ne $null -and $cacheFolder.Count -eq 1) { $cacheFolder0 = $cacheFolder[0].FullName Write-Host "Cache folder found: $($cacheFolder0)" -ForegroundColor DarkBlue $cacheFile = join-path $cacheFolder0 "cache.ini" Write-Host "Cache ini file: $($cacheFile)" -ForegroundColor DarkBlue Write-Host "Stop SharePoint timer service" -ForegroundColor DarkBlue stop-service sptimerv4 Write-Host "Copy cache.ini to it's temp location ($($cacheFileCopy))" -ForegroundColor DarkBlue copy-item -path $cacheFile -Destination $cacheFileCopy -force Write-Host "Set the content of cache.ini to ""1""" -ForegroundColor DarkBlue "1" | set-content $cacheFile -encoding ascii -force Write-Host "Remove all .XML files from the cache folder" -ForegroundColor DarkBlue get-childitem $cacheFolder0 -filter "*.xml" | remove-item -force -confirm:$false Write-Host "Start SharePoint timer service" -ForegroundColor DarkBlue start-service sptimerv4 $xmlFound = -1 $xmlFoundLast = -1 $eqCount = 0 Write-Host "Now the cache will be recreated... Waiting... This will take a minute or so..." -ForegroundColor DarkBlue write-host "(every second a dot will appear on the end of the next line)" -ForegroundColor gray do { write-host "." -nonewline -ForegroundColor Magenta start-sleep -second 1 $xmlFoundLast = $xmlFound $xmlFound = (@(get-childitem $cacheFolder0 -filter "*.xml")).Count if( $xmlFound -eq $xmlFoundLast ) { $eqCount++ } else { $eqCount = 0 } } while ($eqCount -lt 30) Write-Host "" Write-Host "Done" -ForegroundColor DarkBlue $a = get-content $cacheFileCopy $b = get-content $cacheFile if( $a -ne $b ) { if( [int]$a -gt [int]$b ) { write-host "An error occured. the content of the cache file is not identically to it's value before processing." -ForegroundColor Red write-host "Old: $($a)" write-host "New: $($b)" } else { write-host "MAYBE an error occured. the content of the cache file is not identically to it's value before processing." -ForegroundColor DarkYellow write-host "Old: $($a)" write-host "New: $($b)" } } else { write-host "Processing finished successfully! You need to execute the script on every server!!" -foregroundcolor darkgreen remove-item $cacheFileCopy -Force -confirm:$false } } else { write-host "Could not find the cache folder or found too much cache folders!" -foregroundcolor red }
