SharePointers

Special thanks to Djamel Chagour and his response to my MSDN thread (which linked to this blog post ) to solve my issue of grabbing solutions from the Solution store so I could drop them on another server. His post is more complex and deals with generating the stsadm commands for a batch deployment. Mine is the dumbed down version that just pulls the files so I can readd them as I need them. Here's the code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.IO; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration; using System.Xml; using System.Web; namespace Mirant.SharePoint.Administration.WSPDownloader { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { bool hasErrors = false ; if (args.Length != 1) { Console.WriteLine( "Usage: Company.SharePoint.Administration.WSPDownloader directory...

I was deploying a solution into our production farm and found that after adding my solution and trying to deploy it (from Central Admin), the the timer job just got stuck on 'Deploying...'. I eventually discovered that one of our app servers had a problem with the Timer Service and shut down. I restarted the timer service and the solution finished deploying. Now it's time to figure out why the Timer Job failed...