Manage Quick Deploy jobs

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Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010

A Quick Deploy job enables users such as authors and editors to quickly deploy Web pages. For users to use the Quick Deploy feature, the Publishing feature must be enabled for the site collection, and the user must be a member of the Quick Deploy users group.

Before you can run a Quick Deploy job, you must first create a new content deployment path. Content deployment paths specify a source and destination for content deployment and specify other related settings such as authentication information. For information about creating a new content deployment path, see Manage content deployment paths and jobs.

Note

If you are using Remote BLOB Storage (RBS), and the RBS provider that you are using does not support snapshots, you cannot use snapshots for content deployment or backup. For example, the SQL FILESTREAM provider does not support snapshots. For more information about RBS, see Overview of RBS (SharePoint Server 2010).

A Quick Deploy job is created automatically when a new content deployment path is created. Although a Quick Deploy job is created automatically, the job itself is not active until a farm administrator enables Quick Deploy jobs along a specific path. After the Quick Deploy job has been enabled, the farm administrator can then modify the settings for the Quick Deploy job, including the job schedule and notifications for the job. By default, a Quick Deploy job runs automatically every 15 minutes. When a user clicks the Quick Deploy button on the Publish tab for a Web page, that page will be included in the next automatically scheduled Quick Deploy job. Alternatively, a farm administrator can manually run or cancel a Quick Deploy job at any time by using the Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs page.

Note

If a Web page is scheduled to be published at a specific date and time, the Quick Deploy job will copy that Web page to the destination location along with any other items contained in the job. The Web page will be published on the destination site according to the publishing schedule associated with that Web page.

To manage Quick Deploy jobs, you can perform the following procedures in any order:

  • Modify Quick Deploy job settings

  • Test a Quick Deploy job

  • Manually start a Quick Deploy job

  • Cancel a Quick Deploy job

Modify Quick Deploy job settings

Use the following procedure to modify Quick Deploy job settings.

Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:

To modify Quick Deploy job settings

  1. Verify that you have the following administrative credentials:

    • You must be a member of the Farm Administrators group on the Central Administration server.

    • You must be a member of the Site Collection Administrators group on the source site collection.

  2. On the Central Administration Web site, in the General Application Settings section, click Configure content deployment paths and jobs.

  3. On the Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs page, click Quick Deploy Settings on the menu for the Quick Deploy job for the path that you want to edit.

  4. On the Quick Deploy Job settings page, in the Allow Quick Deploy jobs section, select the Allow Quick Deploy jobs along this path box to enable the Quick Deploy job.

  5. In the SQL snapshots section, select one of the following:

    • Do not use SQL snapshots   Select this option if you do not want the job to use SQL Server database snapshots. This option is the default.

    • Automatically create and manage snapshots for content deployment   Select this option if you want the job to use SQL Server database snapshots.

  6. In the Quick Deploy Schedule section, select a length of time for how frequently you want the Quick Deploy job to check for and deploy content.

  7. In the Users section, click Specify Quick Deploy users to add users to the Quick Deploy Users group.

    Note

    The Specify Quick Deploy users link will appear only if you are a member of the Site Collection Administrators group on the site collection associated with the Quick Deploy path.

  8. If you want to receive a notification e-mail about the status of the content deployment job, do one or both of the following in the Notification section:

    • Select the Send e-mail when the content deployment job succeeds check box.

    • Select the Send e-mail if the content deployment job fails check box.

  9. Type one or more e-mail addresses in the Type e-mail addresses box.

Test a Quick Deploy job

Use the following procedure to test a Quick Deploy job. Testing a Quick Deploy job is useful for testing export settings.

To test a Quick Deploy job

  1. Verify that you have the following administrative credentials:

    • You must be a member of the Farm Administrators group on the Central Administration server.

  2. On the Central Administration Web site, in the General Application Settings section, click Configure content deployment paths and jobs.

  3. On the Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs page, on the menu for the Quick Deploy job that you want to test, click Test Job.

    The status of the job is reported in the Status column.

Manually start a Quick Deploy job

Use the following procedure to manually start a Quick Deploy job. By default, Quick Deploy jobs run every 15 minutes. You can also set a Quick Deploy job to run at an interval that you specify. For more information about scheduling Quick Deploy jobs, see Modify Quick Deploy job settings.

To manually start a Quick Deploy job

  1. Verify that you have the following administrative credentials:

    • You must be a member of the Farm Administrators group on the Central Administration server.

  2. On the Central Administration Web site, in the General Application Settings section, click Configure content deployment paths and jobs.

  3. On the Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs page, on the menu for the Quick Deploy job that you want to start, click Run Now.

    The status of the job is reported in the Status column.

Cancel a Quick Deploy job

Use the following procedure to cancel a Quick Deploy job.

A Quick Deploy job cannot be canceled after the import phase has started. For information about the content deployment process, including a description of the export and import phases, see Content deployment overview (SharePoint Server 2010).

To cancel a Quick Deploy job

  1. Verify that you have the following administrative credentials:

    • You must be a member of the Farm Administrators group on the Central Administration server.

  2. On the Central Administration Web site, in the General Application Settings section, click Configure content deployment paths and jobs.

  3. On the Manage Content Deployment Paths and Jobs page, on the menu for the Quick Deploy job that you want to cancel, click Cancel.

    The status of the job is reported in the Status column.

See Also

Concepts

Configure content deployment settings
Manage content deployment paths and jobs
Content deployment overview (SharePoint Server 2010)