While working on a Timer Job project, I needed a flexible way to store one-time configuration settings. I was using a SharePoint Feature and FeatureReceiver to install and activate the Timer Job, so I decided to use the Feature.XML file as a repository for the initial configuration settings Job. I used the Properties node of…
I’m working on a project that imports over 1 million users from an Oracle database used with SharePoint/Forms Authentication into the SharePoint user profile store. This is done as a custom SharePoint timer job that pulls the users from the DB and creates/updates User Profiles through the SharePoint API. When running a job on a…
Recently I saw an access denied error when a user tried to edit a SharePoint Designer workflow task. The error did not occur if the user was a site collection administrator, but did occur even if they had full control to the site, list, and task list. Running through the Request Access pages, it appeared…
After activating a custom SharePoint feature I created, the web application I activated it on stopped responding, and gave me a 403 forbidden error. This link from MSDN (see the Notes section) helped me to identify that the NTFS permissions were screwed up on the feature folder and files (since I created them through windows…
After finishing up a custom timer job project, I relied on several resources to get the job done. here are some links I found very helpful: Andrew Connel’s articles: http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/01/10/5704.aspx http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/CreatingCustomSharePointTimerJobs.aspx http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/07/02/6067.aspx http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/04/15/More-help-on-creating-custom-timer-jobs-and-a-useful.aspx MSDN article – http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686.aspx Logging – http://trentacular.com/2008/12/sharepoint-logging-and-microsofts-trace-log-provider/ Scheduling using more natural language – http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2007/01/16/spschedule-fromstring-recurrencevalue-syntax-format-for-recurrence-value.aspx Feature Help: xmlns comment at bottom of this…