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I am an avid SharePoint enthusiast who works as an Independent SharePoint Consultant based in Leeds, United Kingdom. I am one of the organisers of the Yorkshire SharePoint User Group in the United Kingdom. I have been designing and building SharePoint solutions since 2006.
by Simon Doy

>Been lazy and new project info.


>Well I have been a little lazy on the blogging front though this has been due to a number of reason including the following:-

  1. I have been lazy
  2. I got married
  3. I got a new job and have been busy doing SharePoint stuff with a new project, more to come soon (when I get some time and energy)
  4. .. thats enough excuses.

Anyway the recent project has been a risk management system at a well known bank, and its been an interesting and tough one. I have been the lead architect and we have designed a SharePoint front-end to a SQL backend db, using SharePoint to help with authentication, navigation and any of the core components that will help out.
The solution is also making heavy use of Reporting Services to provide report and also do some navigation to allow users to “drill-down” to find out whats going on with the business.

So far so good and the project which started off as being a month project, which was going to be impossible has not grown into a four month project. I will be shortly writing up our approach and hopefully someone on the web will find it interesting. Its defintately interesting and I think we are doing some cool SharePoint things… though I’ll let you be the judge of that!

by Simon Doy

>Expiration Policy Timer job does not seem to run


>I have been looking into expiration policies for a customer. So fired up my dev machine and applied the policy to a custom content type.

The policy is run once a day, however fortunately you can start it manually. Using Central Admin->Operations->Information Management Policy Configuration, I clicked on the Expiration policy link. Then within there clicked “Process Expired Items Now”. Looked at the Timer Job Status (Central Admin->Operations->Timer Job Status) and there was no reference of the Expiration Policy.

Looked within Timer Job Definitions (just under the Timer Job Status link) and a timer job had been created called “Expiration Policy (manually initiated)” but it had never been run. Actually neither had the daily “Expiration Policy”. I went back to the Information Management Policy Configuration and into the Expiration policy. The “Process Expired Items Now” button was greyed out, to clear this I ended up deleting the “Expiration Policy (manual initiated)” timer job. This enabled the “Process Expired Items Now” button… however nothing.

Other things that I tried included stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs – though nanda.

Then I thought about the fact that the job had never been run and I found this article
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/teameli/archive/2008/10/13/record-center-information-management-policy-jobs-not-running.aspx

Following the instructions sorted the problem…