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SharePoint 2010 Ratings Synchronization Timer Job errors in Publishing/Consuming MultiFarm Configuration

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Consider the following
scenario:

SharePoint 2010 is configured to consume the User Profile
Service from a separate SharePoint 2010 farm.

In this scenario, you find
errors like the following in the Publishing Farm's ULS log
files:

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OWSTIMER.EXE
(0x1604)                              0x1718  SharePoint
Foundation                
General                                       
6t8b      
Verbose               Looking up  site https://ConsumingFarm/News/Pages/RatedPage.aspx
in the farm SharePoint_Config  
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OWSTIMER.EXE
(0x1604)                              0x1718  SharePoint
Foundation                 General                                      
88gr       Verbose               alternateUrl is null          
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OWSTIMER.EXE
(0x1604)                              0x1718  SharePoint
Foundation                 Database                                     
tzku       Verbose               ConnectionString: 'Data
Source=DBServer\instance;Initial Catalog=SharePoint_Config;Integrated
Security=True;Enlist=False;Asynchronous Processing=False;Connect Timeout=15'   
ConnectionState: Closed ConnectionTimeout: 15             
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OWSTIMER.EXE
(0x1604)                              0x1718  SharePoint
Foundation                 Topology                                     
88gs       Verbose               hostHeaderSiteInfo is null           
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OWSTIMER.EXE
(0x1604)                              0x1718  SharePoint
Foundation                 Topology                                     
88gv       Verbose               request is not loopback
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OWSTIMER.EXE
(0x1604)                              0x1718  SharePoint
Server                     Social Data                                  
d0rj       Unexpected            RatingSync: Unexpected exception processing https://ConsumingFarm/News/Pages/RatedPage.aspx.
Error:System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The Web application at https://ConsumingFarm/News/Pages/RatedPage.aspx
could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL
should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a
new request URL mapping to the intended application.     at
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite..ctor(SPFarm farm, Uri requestUri, Boolean
contextSite, SPUserToken userToken)     at
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite..ctor(String requestUrl)     at
Microsoft.Office.Server.SocialData.SocialRatingManager.PropagateRating(SocialRatingAverage
ratingAverage)
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These
errors are occurring because the https://ConsumingFarm web application does not
exist on the Publishing Farm.

In this configuration, it is important to
know that the two timer jobs related to Social Ratings run in the following
locations:

Social Data Maintenance Job: This must run on the
Publishing Farm where the User Profile Service "lives"

Social
Rating Synchronization Job: This must run on the Consuming Farm where
the Web Applications "live".

NOTE: If the Publishing Farm does not
have any user-accessible web applications, you can disable the "Social Rating
Synchronization Job" timer job without any problems (on the Publishing Farm,
itself).

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2011
    Thanks for sharing. I am also encountering these errors in the setup with a publishing and consuming farm. What exactly solves this? Turning off the Rating Sync job on the publishing farm as described in your note?

  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2015
    And you did waht to fix it....