SharePoint 2010 : Audience Compilation Status is Compiling

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We noticed that "Audience Compilation Status is Compiling" and doesn't change back to Idle or doesn't show up as Error.

Note: When we attempt to compile Audience manually, we get following error

"ORGLE_Job_Start: job cancelled since another audience calculation job is in progress"

Solution:

To get the Audience Compilation Status from Compiling to Idle we executed following steps

Open SharePoint Management Shell

Note: Run as administrator

Execute:

$runjob=[Microsoft.Office.Server.Audience.AudienceJob]::RunAudienceJob($args);

From the output copy the Application ID of the respective User Profile Service Application

For e.g., f4c2b7e2-ce7b-465d-868f-66164af37013

The Audience Compilation is preceded by following executable: AudienceJob.exe and we can force stop or start the compilation using PowerShell.

To stop execute:

Audiencejob.exe f4c2b7e2-ce7b-465d-868f-66164af37013 0

Note: Application ID and 0 or 1 indicates Stop or Start

After we successfully stopped the audience job we then started a full compilation executing following

Audiencejob.exe f4c2b7e2-ce7b-465d-868f-66164af37013 1

Once we execute the above command the audiences will compile successfully.