Deleting Corrupted Ghost Meetings on Adobe Connect On-premise Servers

Deleting Corrupted Ghost Meetings on Adobe Connect On-premise Servers

Perhaps due to network outages or hardware failures, etc., there are rare occasions when the Adobe Connect database may become disconnected from the Adobe Connect server while active Meeting sessions are ongoing. It is prudent to avoid database outages while Connect is in use and to publish maintenance schedules so that Meetings are not in session when the database is taken offline for administrative reasons. In most cases when the database is disconnected, once it is reconnected, Connect will be fine and all Meetings will be functional upon full recovery of all systems. In the rare instance, that a Meeting is corrupted through a database outage and cannot be deleted through the Connect Central GUI, you may need to manually delete the Meeting room from the content library directory structure and possibly also from the database itself. If you see displayed at the corrupted Meeting URL, a gray window without any menu or pods, or if you see the following error when you hit a corrupt Meeting URL, you may need to manually delete the Meeting:

“Request Not Processes” – “For further assistance, please refer to the Adobe Connect support center or contact Adobe Connect support”

If the Meeting cannot be deleted through the Connect Central GUI, delete the content folder for the corrupted Meeting. You can identify it by its sco ID in the Connect\content directory:

Restart the Connect and FMS services. If that fails to remove remnants of the corrupt Meeting from the database, try recreating the folder mentioned, (even with empty content), then attempt to delete the room again. If that fails, you may need to delete the Meeting references from the database manually:

sco: update pps_scos set disabled = getUTCdate() where SCO_ID=XXXXX

Note: XXXXX represents the actual sco ID of the meeting.