Timerjob location

Question

I want to know, is there any way to find where timer-job is activated (url where timerjob's feature activated) using Powershell.

Answer 1

first use:

Get-SPFeature -Limit ALL | Where-Object {$_.Scope -eq "SITE"}

this gets all features from site scope! find your feature and copy the id!

next use this, havent properly tested this but i think its what your looking for!

Get-SPSite http://yoursite.co.uk | Get-SPWeb -Limit ALL | Where-Object { Get-SPFeature -Limit ALL -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Web $_ | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like "Publishing*"} } | Select url -Unique

it loops through all sites and subsites, if not found it wont throw error but instead ignore it... if found it will show the url at the end.

there is two areas you need to change, the url http://yoursite.co.uk and "Publishing*", the url is the location of the site you want to start from and the second part is the name of the feature your looking up against.

so if i have a site at 'home.co.uk' (root site collection) and looking for a feature called timrJbSearch than i would do:

Get-SPSite http://home.co.uk | Get-SPWeb -Limit ALL | Where-Object { Get-SPFeature -Limit ALL -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Web $_ | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like "timrJbSearch"} } | Select url -Unique

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607945(v=office.15).aspx

just like to note when query against features they only show active and not inactive! inactive throws error.

Answer 2

There are timer jobs on Web Application levels, and you can use PowerShell to Start and Stop timer jobs, and more:

• Disable-SPTimerJob Disables a timer job.
• Enable-SPTimerJob Enables a timer job.
• Get-SPTimerJob Returns timer jobs.
• Set-SPTimerJob Sets the schedule for running a timer job.
• Start-SPTimerJob Runs a timer job once.

Se more here: Timer jobs cmdlets (SharePoint Server 2010)

Answer 3

The SharePoint timer service is a simple windows service. It's listed in the services screen. De timer service executables reside in the bin folder of the SharePoint $hive.

The SharePoint timer service is installed and activated by default. It should not be disabled. If you disable it, SharePoint will not run correctly.

You can programmatically add (and schedule) your own (custom) jobs to the timer service. SharePoint takes care of the execution and scheduling. You need Visual Studio to create a custom timer-job. You deploy it with a SharePoint solution package. You typically activate a custom timerjob on a site with a feature.

You can use the central administration page to get an overview (and status) of all the defined timerjobs in SharePoint including your custom created timer jobs. Note: monitoring jobs in central admin is not possible in the free version of SharePoint (SharePonit 20xx Foundation) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4614780/how-to-check-whether-a-timer-job-has-run

You can also user PowerShell to view the status of a timerjob Get-SPTimerJob [-Identity ] | Format-Table -Property DisplayName,Id,LastRunTime,Status

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607914(v=office.15).aspx