Hi,
We have a SharePoint 2013 farm in poor condition.
On only one of our APP server, on our WFE servers and we can see errors bellow (EventID 6481):
Application Server job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchDataAccessServiceInstance (ce9d1ce4-501c-4e8d-8459-ed0ebbca6f65).Reason: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SearchDataAccessServiceInstance
was updated by XX\XXXXX.net, in the OWSTIMER (4700) process, on machine SPWFE4. 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 XX\XXXXX.net, in the OWSTIMER (4700) process, on machine XXWFE1. View the tracing log for more information about the conflict. at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchDataAccessServiceInstance.UpdateWithRetrying() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchDataAccessServiceInstance.Synchronize(Boolean calledFromSearchServiceInstance) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean
isAdministrationServiceJob)
We find many thread about this error and it seems necessary to rebuild SharePoint Cache.
For this its seems necessary to :
1 - Stop the SharePoint Timer Service.
2 - Go to %SystemDrive%\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config folder in File Explorer.
There are a couple of folders with the GUID in the Config folder. You want the one that has hyphens in the name.
3 - Delete all the files, except the cache.ini.
4 - Open the cache.ini file, replace number with 1.
5 - Start the SharePoint Timer Service in the Services Console.
My question is about this process :
Q1 : Can I process server by server (after disable the server in our loadbalancer) ?
Q2 : What is the impact with a stop of SharePoint Timer Service ?
Q3 : Regading the GUID folder, in our case and for our two APP servers we have two folders which has hypens in the name, which is the correct one ? On our second farm for test, we don't have this problem.
App Server 1 :
PS C:\> Get-ChildItem "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config"
Directory: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d---- 11/29/2016 10:40 AM 1156b7e0-ae7a-4508-9087-e3f995c552bd
d---- 1/25/2019 3:12 PM 3d3b30eb-03ea-4ee6-9fd1-cf4183f232c8
d---- 9/5/2016 8:53 AM e8d441d3df0743e1ad8ee0163a0485dd
d---- 8/8/2018 10:29 AM ff9d8236864f44ec933319d1cfd973af
Very thanks for your help,
Have a nice day all !