Content Deployment “Timed Out”

When gone into daylight saving time (DST: this is really IT guys nightmare…) at 2am March 30th 2008, the content deployment stopped working. The result was always “Timed Out”. BTW, to find this, that it may be because of the time change, it took days already….

I found this hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938663/.
SharePoint’s own timer service, or shceduler, is so smart that it does not notice the time change. Please… Thus, a job scheduled to run at 8am, will not run till 9. When it finally runs, it is already “timed out.”

Since the hotfix in question (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938535/) is included (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942390), decided to go for SP1 instead.

One more final remark. Description of the hotfix reads as follows.
“The Windows SharePoint Timer service does not update its internal time when Microsoft Windows makes the transition from standard time to DST or from DST to standard time. Therefore, after you apply this hotfix, you must restart the Windows SharePoint Timer service after each transition from standard time to DST and after each transition from DST to standard time. If you do not restart the Windows SharePoint Timer service, timer jobs that you schedule may be delayed. Or, they may fail.”