I have created a site collection inside a web application with user A as a site collection adminstrator. I have added a link in site feature page. On click of that link I am trying to create a time...

I'm currently working on a TimerJob which does some site collections management. When the job runs it looks into a list to retrieve the Url of a site collection then it calls SPSite.Exists() to che...

i have a timer job which i want to run only once per day, for the entire farm. How do I Deploy it in a multiple WFE environment? Do I run the stsadm -o deploysolution command in every WFE, or jus...

I am following up an interesting question on so, on usage of ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor for some repeating task. Scheduling this object returns a ScheduledFuture object which one can use to canc...

Can we use SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges in SharePoint timer jobs? Under whose identity will the timer job run under elevated privilegs? Any gotcha's and must know facts regarding this wil...

I'd like to invoke a timer job installed on a SharePoint server manually. What would be useful is something along the lines of an stsadm command. My scenario is, I've deployed a solution with a bu...

We have an SP timer job that was running fine for quite a while. Recently the admins enlisted another server into the farm, and consequently SharePoint decided to start running this timer job on th...

I am creating my first Timer Job and want to debug it. I have installed the timer job through a feature, and added it to a webapplication's JobDefinitions collection, and added a SPMinuteSchedule t...

I am writing a timer job for the first time. I am following the examples that can be obtained by googling as my reference. In many such articles, I am coming across the timer job features being ac...