How to Enable Ratings: Timer Jobs

Ratings throughout SharePoint sites are managed by two timer jobs, namely the User Profile Service Application - Social Data Maintenance Job and the User Profile Service Application - Social Rating Synchronization Job, highlighted in Figure 5.106. The timer jobs aggregate ratings, calculate the average, and update the number of stars (visual rating indicator) against each item.

Figure 5.106 Ratings timer jobs shown in timer job definitions in Central Administration.

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The ratings timer jobs are scheduled to run and update rating statuses throughout SharePoint Web applications every hour, although you can choose ...

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