NewsGator Social Harvesting Job
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Core |
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First release |
v2.1 |
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Function |
Replaces Microsoft's Activity Feed Job for the User Profile Service App. Harvests activities from SharePoint's User Profile Changelog and Social Metadata store to be shown in users' activity feeds, while also indexing them in the NewsGator Social Database. This job is cross-farm compatible, the UPA on the Enterprise Service Farm can be a separate instance from the UPA on the local farm in distributed scenarios. Only one instance of this job should be configured per UPA instance. |
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Consequences of stopping |
If the SharePoint Activity Feed Job is not started when this one is stopped, no events of the default SharePoint types makes it to the Activity Stream. Also, badges depending on SharePoint event types does not get awarded. (This job should only be turned on or shut off via the Farm Settings area of the NewsGator Social Platform Management page.) |
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Data per cycle |
All (all new items in SharePoint's User Profile Changelog and Social Metadata store since the last time this job ran) |
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Default interval |
5 minutes |
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Minimum Recommended interval |
5 minutes |
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Maximum Recommended interval |
1 hour |
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Usage notes |
Activating the NewsGator Harvester disables the Activity Feed Job on the farm. This job should only be turned on or shut off via the Farm Settings area of the NewsGator Social Platform Management page. |
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