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passing parameters to timer job

I have a web template that provisions some lists and as part of the solution i need a timer job to manipulate the lists. The problem is i do not know where the lists will be within the web ...
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how to configure a timer job to run in specific servers?

If I have a big environment with 100,000 users, I am planning to split the servers for WFE, Application Servers and Batch Processing. I wonder if there is an specific way to enable/install specific ...
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SharePoint 2010 Workflow stuck in starting status?

We have a SP 2010 workflow on a Document Library which sends an email notification out to certain users when a property is changed for a document. This workflow was working fine up until 2 weeks ago ...
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How to fix the access issue with Timer JobDefinition Page - SP2010?

I am unable to access the Timer Job Definition Page in Central Admin and getting error given below, if anyone can tell me how to fix this issue please, The configuration database was queried for a ...
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SharePoint 2010 Workflow Reversing Date Format

I've created a workflow that stores its start date and time plus 10 minutes to a variable and then repeats the process with 20 and 30 minutes. Once in production this will go up to a few days each. ...
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workitem timerjob wont execute

I have the following timer job, not done by me. When I attach debugger to OWSTIMER.EXE the constructors are triggered but the ProcessWorkItem method is never step into. There are about 4000 ...
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Advantages/disadvantages of Timer Jobs vs. PowerShell scripts

I've worked with several examples of both SharePoint Timer Jobs and PowerShell scripts, some of them doing the same things as the other. In my experience, PowerShell scripts are far more flexible, ...
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“Access Denied” while Activating Custom Timer Job

When i tried to Activate Feature of Timer Job It returns error : Access Denied Scope of Feature is "Site".. private static void CreateJob(SPSite site) { try { ...
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Access Secure Store Service from Timer Job

I'm creating a timer job that polls an RSS feed that requires a username and password. I'd like to store the login credentials in the Secure Store Service. I believe I have successfully set this up ...
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Timer Job with lock type SPJobLockType.Job is scheduled on all WFE servers

I have written a custom timer job that should only run on one server in the farm. The constructor is as follows: public class MyCustomTimerJob : SPJobDefinition { public MyCustomTimerJob () : ...
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Alternative to HttpContext.Cache within a Timer Job

A coworker of mine has created a centralized Logging utility that works throughout our SP projects. It does a good job of queuing up a large number of logs, deals with logging level, etc. However, ...
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What is the default timezone setting for a web application?

We have a sharepoint server that is in pacific time. There are several webapps and they do not have a timezone specified (Manage Web Application > Web Application > General Settings > Default ...
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Starting Workflow in Timerjob fails sometimes

I wrote a timerjob how at some point creates an item and starts a workflow on that item manually. This works like 4 out of 5 times. When it doesn't work i get this not so cool exception: ...
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Document ID not being set in Libraries

My document id service does not run on some libraries. I've tried manually triggering it by running Document ID enable/disable job then Document ID assignment job. The Document ID field is always ...
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Deployed Timer Job not taking new code when deployed

I've realized recently that, when re-deploying (either manually or through vs2010) my timer job feature package, the updated execute code is not being deployed. Strange yea. Essentially, I'll ...
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SPWebApplication returns null on timer service

I am trying to debug a timer job, its WEB application scoped. When it executes, webapp and sitecollections are null for some reason? Any idea? Update1: I changed a little bit the code, check ...
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Object reference not set to an instance of an object when Updating a Timer JOB?

This is really weird. The exception is thrown in the FeatureActivated event exactly in the line job.Update(). There is no way to debug any further because that method is from the framework. Maybe I ...
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Problem registering new timer job

I have the following problem when trying to create a timer job I created my job based on this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh528519.aspx However, debugging the feature activated ...
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timer job programatically check status

Is there a way to check for the status of a timer job, I need to know the last time it executed and its status, that it run correctly?
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SharePoint 2010: Application Server Administration Service Timer Job

One of our customers has a large SharePoint 2010 farm which was having problems with 100% CPU usage for a large part of every minute (15 seconds) when the Application Server Administration Service ...
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My Timer Job Not sending any mail!

Hi I used following code to send mail from Timer job, (Thanks to Mr Deepu for providing a sample template). After deploying it, I could able to find this job, in the monitoring section of the Central ...
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How to develop for Sharepoint 2010 in VisualStudio when your sharepoint server isn't on your local machine

I am trying to program a timer job for sharepoint 2010. It's for my job at school and the sharepoint servers are located somewhere on campus where I don't have access to them. I am new to visual ...
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Custom timer job - trying to access a custom User Profile - failing with “Could not load file or assembly” (of UserProfile)

I'd be grateful if anyone could point me towards the right direction for the following problem. Given: Sharepoint 2010 project. FBA Authentication with custom user profile (class called UserProfile, ...
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How can I schedule the User Profile Service to run a full sync weekly?

We are running SharePoint Server 2010 and have not yet applied SP1. User profile incremental sync is not picking up all of the group membership from AD. Starting a full sync seems to rectify the ...
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Crawling the taxonomy store using a timer job in central admin

I am trying to get a timer job to crawl the Taxonomy Termstores, and am having a problem determining which SPSite object to use when instantiating the TaxonomySession. Is there a SPSite instance that ...
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How can I get a reference to a specifc SPWeb object in a custom timer job?

I have a custom timer job that imports data from an external source into a specific list on a specific Web in my SharePoint 2010 installation. That is the job is only relevant to one list on one web. ...
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Need help specifying the location of a Custom Action

Spawned from this question. I have been able to add a new link to my Central admin page under the Monitoring->Timer Jobs section. My problem is that I have been unable to figure out how to add it ...
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Possible to add a “configuration” page to my custom timer job?

I would like to have a page in the central admin that allows administrators to configure a few values for the my timer job. Is there a way that I can do this?
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On which server does Timer Jobs Run on? (In a medium farm)

We are going to build a medium farm and would like to split the timer jobs across the CA and WFE server. How do I set which timer job runs on which server?