Deploy Timer Job in Multi-Farm Environment.

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Recently I faced problem to deploy timer job in multi-farm environment. That’s why I thought to share it with you to save your time.

Deployment Instruction:

If you need to re-install or Remove Timer Job then do the following. It is always needed when you re-deploy your latest Implementation.

To remove the Timer Job, First disable the feature and then do the following:

1. Disable the feature from Site Collection Administration->Site Collection Features
2. Uninstall-SPSolution -Identity nameofsolution.wsp –allwebapplications
3. Remove-SPSolution nameofsolution.wsp –force
   • Now Re-start SharePoint Timer Service
     1. Run net stop sptimerv4
     2. Run net start sptimerv4
   • Re-Start IIS is option but better to do
     1. Run iisreset

At First, You will do in Server 1 (Apps). This server is the one which contains all the services, and we will do the following:

1. Copy the wsp package in the server you want to deploy the Timer Job (for instance c:\WSP)
2. Go to the server were you want to deploy the solution and go to Start->SharePoint 2010 Management Shell
3. Run the following command to add Timer Job package solution
   1. Add-SPSolution c:\WSP\solutionname.wsp
4. Run the following command to Install solution
   1. install-spsolution solutionname.wsp -GACDeployment –force
5. Now Re-start SharePoint Timer Service to re-load new Job
   1. Run net stop sptimerv4
   2. Run net start sptimerv4
6. Re-Start IIS is option but better to do
   1. Run iisreset

(Note: This is enough in case of single server)

Now, do the following for every Front-End server, do the following:

1. Go to Start->SharePoint 2010 Management Shell
2. Run the following command to Install solution
   1. install-spsolution solutionname.wsp -GACDeployment –force
3. Now Re-start SharePoint Timer Service to re-load new Job
   1. Run net stop sptimerv4
   2. Run net start sptimerv4
4. (optional) Re-Start IIS 
   1. Run iisreset

Finally, Enable the feature from Site Collection Administration->Site Collection Features

Cheers!!