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Event ID 202 - SharePoint Portal Administration Service
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We were seeing the following error in the Event Log on our MOSS WFE every 30 seconds:
 
Event Type: Error
Event Source: SharePoint Portal Administration Service
Event Category: None
Event ID: 202
Date: 2/22/2007
Time: 11:43:10 AM
User: N/A
Computer: REMOVED
Description:
Synchronization exception occurred For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp
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This was occurring on a SharePoint 2003 upgrade portal. The only thing we needed to fix was shutting down the SharePoint Portal Administration service. The errors stopped.

Posted 06-02-2007 7:35 PM by wpowell

Comments

Jay wrote re: Event ID 202 - SharePoint Portal Administration Service
on 07-20-2007 2:02 AM

Not much of a "fix".  Any info on what causes this or a real solution to this?

William wrote re: Event ID 202 - SharePoint Portal Administration Service
on 07-20-2007 12:11 PM

Hmm... The reality is this represents an upgrade scenario. The service is no longer needed. It is completely related to SPS2003. So a "real solution" would be for the Microsoft product group to remove the service when Finalize Upgrade is executed, or at least stop it, and mark it disabled.

Nikhil wrote re: Event ID 202 - SharePoint Portal Administration Service
on 10-24-2007 6:42 AM

I am getting this error in SPS 2003

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