{"id":898,"date":"2014-12-16T05:58:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T05:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/?p=898"},"modified":"2024-04-26T12:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T12:31:32","slug":"solving-timer-service-halting-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/solving-timer-service-halting-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving Timer Service halting daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/solving-timer-service-halting-daily\/#Overview\" title=\"Overview\">Overview<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/solving-timer-service-halting-daily\/#Solution\" title=\"Solution\">Solution<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Overview\"><\/span>Overview<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The SharePoint Timer Service is key to keeping SharePoint humming. \u00a0It runs all the timer jobs, and is therefore responsible for a near endless set of tasks. \u00a0I recently found that the timer service was halting shortly after 6am daily. \u00a0the service appears as halted. \u00a0Some additional symptoms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trying to set the password in Central Administration, Security, Managed Accounts doesn\u2019t fix the issue<\/li>\n<li>Trying to set the managed account password via PowerShell doesn\u2019t help<\/li>\n<li>The following appears in the event log:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-908\" src=\"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Cannot-log-on-as-a-service2-300x109-1.webp\" alt=\"img\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Trying to start the service fails:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-909\" src=\"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Cannot-log-on-as-a-service-300x186-1.webp\" alt=\"img\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Solution\"><\/span>Solution<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>First, check GPEdit.msc to make sure the Computer security policy allows the user to run as a service. \u00a0The real catch is that the Domain policy 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