Monday, March 30, 2009

Sharepoint - An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action.

I got this error today on a restored MOSS environment, when trying to add an existing content database:

An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SPWebApplication Name=WEBAPPLICATIONNAME Parent=SPWebService is being updated by DOMAIN\USER, in the w3wp process, on machine SERVERNAME. View the tracing log for more information about the conflict.

I found this KB to solve this issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939308

"This issue occurs if the contents of the file system cache on the front-end servers are newer than the contents of the configuration database. After you perform a system recovery, you may have to manually clear the file system cache on the local server."

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Thank you for posting this! I had the exact same error you had, and though I came across the Microsoft article, it specified a diffrent service, so I was skeptical.

Anyway, this cleared the problem right up!