Adjusting article retrieval, distribution, and retention / cleanup behaviors

News Stream has several jobs which perform the behind-the-scenes work of retrieving, distributing, and cleaning up articles and related News Stream content.

These can be seen by clicking Review job definitions in the Monitoring section of SharePoint Central Administration:

Review job definitions

Here you can adjust when and how frequently each job runs. The individual jobs are described below.

There is also a Job Configuration section within the News Stream Service Application’s management page that allows you administrative control over some of the behaviors of these jobs.

Job Configuration

These settings are described below with their associated jobs.