People Picker & SPTimerservice

Hi and thank you for your time. I am was given the task of managing our sharepoint server. The server was not setup by myself but I was part of the install process. i am trying to correct a couple of issues in the "Review Problems and solutions"
section of the Central Administration" page.
Security
Issue 1. The server farm account should not be used for other services. SPTimerService (SPTimerV4)
Issue 2. Accounts used by application pools or service identities are in the local machine Administrators group. SPTimerService (SPTimerV4)
Issue 1, I know I can change service accounts on the farm credential management page, but the SPTimerService is not listed. where is this located and how can I change it.
Issue 2, When I move the user account out of the local admin group people picker breaks for all sites except for the Central administration site. An example would be on the CA site I click share and enter a name and it resolves to a AD user. and I can then
share the page. but on a site I click share and type the name I get the following message "Sorry, we're having trouble reaching the server." I have run iisreset /noforce and it still people picker doesnot work.
Thank you again for your time.
Paul

1) Go into the Health Alert itself, click on Edit, then you should be able to disable the rule itself. You can then delete the alert from the main health alert page.
2) Then you need to leave the Farm Admin as Local Administrator as you need to be a Local Administrator to use the SharePoint Management Shell. Alternatively, set up a new Farm Admin with Shell Admin rights and run backups under that alternative account.
3) Can you post some ULS logs when you attempt to perform People searches with these accounts?
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Hi Razvi444,
Here is an Useful article about how to custom a SharePoint people picker control:
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Hi David,
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SharePoint 2013 People Picker to Send Email

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to send email to the user in the PeoplePicker control.
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Cannot remove deleted user from people picker - SharePoint Foundation 2010

So I think I've read all the people picker articles here and I can't find a solution so I thought I'd start a new thread. Here is the issue:
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Ran a full crawl as we read on a forum somewhere that it might help.
If I try and add the user back to SharePoint I get "The user does not exist or is not unique"
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Vinny

No other domain trusts that this user could be in.
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know? This one user is the only one that was removed from the UserInfo table, but there are a few other users that are also deleted (from SharePoint, not manually from UserInfo) that are still showing as well. This one user included.
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Is there a way to exclude temporary people picker fields from a query when receiving the "List View Lookup Threshold" error.

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http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/80261/people-picker-not-getting-populated-in-the-sharepoint-site
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Hi Razvi444,
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I understand that you want to set a people picker field value automatically to current user. You can use these ECMA scripts on your EditForm.aspx page. Edit the page in SharePoint designer and add the code before a </asp:Content> tag.
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need to change the ID here to you people picker field ID. You can get the id for this field with the help of IE developer tool.
function onFaiureMethod(sender, args) {
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For more information, please refer to this site:
Get current user’s LoginName Ecmascript Sharepoint 2010:
http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2011/05/18/get-current-users-loginname-ecmascript-sharepoint-2010/
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