SharePoint Health Analyzer rules reference (SharePoint Server 2010)

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010

The articles in this section are articles for the SharePoint Health Analyzer. Typically, you would see these articles after you click a link in a message in the SharePoint Health Analyzer in Central Administration. You can use these articles to help you troubleshoot problems in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

In this section:

• Web Applications using Claims authentication require an update (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Web Applications using Claims authentication require an update", and describes how to update Claims Authentication.

• Automatic update setting inconsistent across farm servers (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Automatic update setting inconsistent across farm servers", and describes how to configure automatic update settings to be consistent across the farm.

• Diagnostic logging is set to verbose (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Diagnostic logging is set to verbose", and describes how to configure diagnostic logging.

• The server farm account should not be used for other services (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "The server farm account should not be used for other services", and describes how to change the account that is used for other services.

• One or more services have started or stopped unexpectedly (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "One or more services have started or stopped unexpectedly", and describes how to start the service that is not running.

• Databases used by SharePoint have fragmented indices (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Databases used by SharePoint have fragmented indices", and describes how to reorganize and rebuild indexes.

• Content databases contain orphaned items (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Content databases contain orphaned items", and describes how to remove orphan sites from the content.

• Outbound e-mail has not been configured (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Outbound e-mail has not been configured", and describes how to configure outgoing e-mail settings in Central Administration.

• Some health analyzer rules do not have associated timer jobs (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Some health analyzer rules do not have associated timer jobs", and describes how to create the health data collection timer jobs.

• Drives are running out of free space (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Drives are running out of free space", and describes how to free disk space on the server computer.

• The paging file size should exceed the amount of physical RAM in the system (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "The paging file size should exceed the amount of physical RAM in the system", and describes how to increase the minimum size of the paging file.

• Built-in accounts are used as application pool or service identities (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Built-in accounts are used as application pool or service identities", and describes how to change the identity that is used for the service or application pool.

• Web Analytics: Monitors the health of the Report Consolidator component (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Web Analytics: Monitors the health of the Report Consolidator component", and describes how to enable data trimming to improve the performance of the Report Consolidator.

• Web Analytics: Verifies that when the Web Analytics is installed and running, usage logging is enabled in the farm (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule " Web Analytics: Verifies that when the Web Analytics is installed and running, usage logging is enabled in the farm", and describes how to enable usage logging.

• Web Analytics: Verifies that a web application is serviced by at most one Web Analytics service application proxy (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Web Analytics: Verifies that a web application is serviced by at most one Web Analytics service application proxy", and describes how to disassociate other Web Analytics service application proxies.

• Web Analytics: Verifies that the SQL Server Service Broker is enabled for the Web Analytics staging databases (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Web Analytics: Verifies that the SQL Server Service Broker is enabled for the Web Analytics staging databases", and describes how to enable the service broker queue.

• One or more categories are configured with verbose trace logging setting

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "One or more categories are configured with verbose trace logging", and describes how to reset diagnostic logging to the default level.

• InfoPath Forms Services Maintenance Timer Job not enabled (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "InfoPath Forms Services Maintenance Timer Job not enabled", and describes how to enable the timer job.

• Validate the My Site Host and individual My Sites are on a dedicated Web application and separate URL domain (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Validate the My Site Host and individual My Sites are on a dedicated Web application and separate URL domain", and describes how to configure a dedicated Web application.

• Search scopes not defined for My Sites (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Search scopes not defined for My Sites", and describes how to define search scopes.

• Verify each User Profile service application has a My Site host configured (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Verify each User Profile service application has a My Site host configured", and describes how to configure a My Site.

• Visio Graphics Service has a maximum cache age setting that will adversely impact performance (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Visio Graphics Service has a maximum cache age setting that will adversely impact performance (SharePoint Server 2010)", and describes how to change the maximum cache age setting for better performance.

• The Visio Graphics Service has a Maximum Web Drawing Size setting that will adversely impact performance (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "The Visio Graphics Service has a Maximum Web Drawing Size setting that will adversely impact performance", and describes how to change the Maximum Web Drawing Size setting for better performance.

• Visio Graphics Service has a maximum recalculation duration setting that will adversely impact performance (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "The Visio Graphics Service has a maximum recalculation duration setting that will adversely impact performance", and describes how to change the maximum recalculation duration setting for better performance.

• The Visio Graphics Service has a minimum cache age setting that may cause a security issue (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "The Visio Graphics Service has a minimum cache age setting that may cause a security issue", and describes how to change the minimum cache age setting for better performance.

• The Visio Graphics Service has a minimum cache age setting that will adversely impact performance (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "The Visio Graphics Service has a minimum cache age setting that will adversely impact performance", and describes how to change the minimum cache age setting for better performance.

• All State Service databases are paused for a State Service Application (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "All State Service databases are paused for a State Service Application", and describes how to resume the databases.

• A State Service Application has no database defined (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "A State Service Application has no database defined", and describes how to define a database for the State Service Application.

• InfoPath Forms Services forms cannot be filled out in a Web browser because no State Service connection is configured (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "InfoPath Forms Services forms cannot be filled out in a Web browser because no State Service connection is configured", and describes how to configure a State Service connection.

• Expired sessions are not being deleted from the ASP.NET Session State database (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Expired sessions are not being deleted from the ASP.NET Session State database", and describes how to start the SQL Server Agent so that expired sessions will be deleted.

• The State Service Delete Expired Sessions timer job is not enabled (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "The State Service Delete Expired Sessions timer job is not enabled", and describes how to configure the timer job so that expired sessions will be deleted.

• One or more Search crawl databases have fragmented indices (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "One or more Search crawl databases have fragmented indices", and describes how to defragment the indexes.

• One or more Search property databases have fragmented indices (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "One or more Search property databases have fragmented indices", and describes how to a health rule that will defragment the indexes.

• InfoPath Forms Services forms cannot be filled out in a Web browser (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "InfoPath Forms Services forms cannot be filled out in a Web browser", and describes how to enable browser rendering of forms.

• Word Automation Service timer job is not running (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article provides information about the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule "Word Automation Service timer job is not running". The article describes how to enable and run the timer job.

• The Application Discovery and Load Balancer Service is not running in this farm (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by starting the Application Discovery and Load Balancer service on at least one server in the farm.

• Databases running in compatibility range, upgrade recommended (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by installing software updates.

• Databases require upgrade or not supported (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by installing software updates.

• Databases within this farm are set to read only and will fail to upgrade unless it is set to a read-write state (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by setting the databases to read-write.

• Drives used for SQL databases are running out of free space (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by freeing disk space on the database server computer or decreasing the number of days to store log files.

• Databases used by SharePoint have outdated index statistics (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by freeing disk space on the database server computer or decreasing the number of days to store log files.

• Databases exist on servers running SharePoint Foundation (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by moving the databases to a separate server.

• Database has large amounts of unused space (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by shrinking the database.

• One or more servers is not responding (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by connecting the server to the network, restarting the SharePoint 2010 Timer service (SPTimerV4), or removing the server record from the SharePoint topology.

• Unattended Service Account Application ID is not specified or value is invalid value

  The article describes the cause and includes a procedure that helps to ensure that Unattended Service Account Application ID settings are configured correctly.

• Verify that the Activity Feed Timer Job is enabled (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer rule by enabling the Activity Feed timer job.

• Accounts used by application pools or service identities are in the local machine Administrators group (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the user account to a predefined account or to a domain user account that is not a member of the Administrators group.

• Application pools recycle when memory limits are exceeded (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by disabling application pool recycling.

• Alternate access URLs have not been configured (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the default zone URL.

• Product / patch installation or server upgrade required (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by deploying updates or upgrading.

• Web.config file has incorrect settings for the requestFiltering element (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the requestFiltering settings in the Web.config file.

• Web.config files are not identical on all machines in the farm (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by making the Web.config files identical on all front-end Web servers in the farm.

• The timer service failed to recycle (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the schedule for the Timer Service Recycle job so that it does not conflict with other long-running timer jobs.

• The local machine is not joined to a SharePoint server farm (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by creating a new farm or adding this computer to an existing SharePoint farm.

• Web Analytics: Verify that there is a data processing service started when there is a web service started (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by starting the Web Analytics Data Processing service on any server in the farm.

• Web Analytics: Monitors the health of the Logging Extractor component (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by adding more staging databases for the Web Analytics service to balance the load.

• Web Analytics: Monitors the health of the Data Analyzer Light component (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by adding more staging databases for the Web Analytics service to balance the load.

• Web Analytics: Monitors the health of the User Behavior Analyzer component (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by adding more staging databases for the Web Analytics service to balance the load.

• Web Analytics: Verify that the Site Inventory Usage Collection timer job is enabled for all the Web applications serviced by the Web Analytics service application (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the settings of the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Site Inventory Usage Collection timer job.

• Verify each User Profile Service Application has an associated Managed Metadata Service Connection (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by editing the connections for the User Profile service application.

• Verify each User Profile Service Application has an associated Search Service Connection (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by editing the group of connections for the User Profile service application.

• Verify that the critical User Profile Application and User Profile Proxy Application timer jobs are available and have not been mistakenly deleted (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by editing the rule definition so that the configuration is automatically repaired.

• Critical state of this rule indicates that the Word Automation Services is not running when it should be running (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by enabling the Word Automation Services timer job.

• The settings for Word Automation Services are not within the recommended limits (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the settings for Word Automation Services.

• The Security Token Service is not available (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by restarting the Security Token Service application pool.

• Some content databases are growing too large (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by editing the rule definition to prevent new sites from being added to the databases, and then moving some site collections to other databases.

• Trial period for this product is about to expire (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by purchasing the product.