State Service

State Service best practices report by SPDocKit determines whether the State Service Application is created or started in the farm.

Issue description

This check determines whether the State Service Application is created or started in the farm.

Explanation

The State Service Application is used by various SharePoint components to store temporary data across HTTP requests. The following SharePoint components use State Service Application:

• InfoPath Forms Services

• SharePoint Server Chart Web Part

• Microsoft Visio

• Search Administration Crawl And Query Health Reports

Solution

Verify that the State Service Application is running in the farm. To verify that the service application is started and configured properly, go to Central Administration > Application Management > Manage service applications.

Additional information

Additional information can be found in the following article:

• Manage the State Service (SharePoint Server 2010)