Sunday 10 March 2013

The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSqmTimerJobDefinition threw an exception Event ID 6398

The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSqmTimerJobDefinition (ID 9fb31cc3-1041-407c-bb02-4494e180b7c9) threw an exception. More information is included below.

Data is Null. This method or property cannot be called on Null values.

Resolution
Go to Central Admin - monitoring - review job definitions - job history (left) and change the view (right) to Failed jobs.You can see it is CEID Data Collection which is causing this problem. Click on Failed link
CEIP data collection job-  disable it...

Before doing this make sure the following things
1. In Central Administration, select System Settings
Click Configure privacy options under Farm Management
Under Customer Experience Improvement Program, select ‘No, I don’t wish to participate
Next this needs to be disabled for all web applications, including Central Administration.

2. Select Application Management, then Manage Web Applications
Select the first Web Application in the list and click General Settings
At the very bottom of list, select No in the Enable Customer Experience Improvement Program
Repeat for all Web Applications in the farm.