SharePoint Administration Latest Interview questions

1)How to Troubleshoot Update conflict error in SharePoint?

Ans) This error occurs if the Contents of the File systtem cache is newer than the configuration database contents.Inorder to fix this issue we need to clear the file system cache on all

the servers in the farm.

2) How to Clear File System (Configuration) cache ?

Ans)
   - Navigate to the following path : Drive:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID
   - Backup the Cache.ini file
   - Delete all the XML files in the GUID folder.(Do not delete the cache.ini folder).
   - Open the Cache.ini file in Edit mode and delete the  content in it and just type 1 and save the file.
   - Restart the windows SharePoint Timer service.
   - Go to Central Admin, Click Operations --> Under Global Configuration-->Timer Job Status -->Check if Config Refresh entry is      succeeded.


3) WSP not deployed to all servers? How to diagnose?

Ans) After deploying a Farm Solution means it should propagate across all the servers.
 We can
cehck the status of the deployment in CA--> Operations--> Solution management.If it is not

deployed properly , it shows not deployed.

This problem arises because the web.config file across all the servers may not be synchronized.To Resolve this we need to clear the cache on all servers as mentioned above .



 4) what happens when IIS reset is done

Ans)    IIS Reset Stop and restart the entire Web server.

What is new SP2013
enable 2 way synchronization in UPS
Checklist for migration from 2010 to 2013
Sysnchronous and asynchronous mode in SharePoint always on
how to deploy a DLL file in SharePoint
How do you troubleshoot if a timer job fails
how many application pools can we have in sharepoint as recommended by microsoft.




Comments

  1. SANDEEP NADIG24 January 2016 at 00:48

    Excellent blog!What is asynchronous and synchronous mode could you please explain more on this.

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  2. SANDEEP NADIG24 January 2016 at 00:49

    Excellent blog!What is asynchronous and synchronous mode could you please explain more on this.

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