How to Create Custom SharePoint Service
Creating a Timer Job in SharePoint, complete guide Timer Job definition Timer jobs are tasks that run at a scheduled time. Just like MSSQL Server Agent jobs, which executes different database task, SharePoint uses timer jobs to maintain or monitor the server farm. If you have the curiosity bug and want to see the timer jobs that are on your server then go to SharePoint Central Administration, select Monitoring from the menu and in the Timer Jobs section click on Review job definitions. Depending on your SharePoint edition and your web applications you can have quite a few or just a few timer jobs. Figure 1. SharePoint Central Job Definitions list Timer Job advantages The timer job is a scheduled executable tasks that run in background. Some of these jobs are connected with long-running processes which you don’t want to run on your front-end servers. From a developer’s point of view your code in a custom timer job will be executed with high privileges at an interval that yo