After creating a subscription in the Reporting Configuration, the emails are not sent at the specified time, but if you perform any actions on the site, the emails will be sent. This is the problem of the virtual machine on which the site or IIS is deployed. Or does the feature Kentico.
Prompt in what there can be a problem and how the system of sending of emails inin the Reporting Configuration works.
This is a correct behavior. Kentico checks for e-mails that are to be sent at the end of requests which means that if there are no requests, no e-mails are sent. If you need some tasks to be send at a specified time, you need to use Windows scheduler and configure task (e-mmail sending) to use it. See official documentation for more detail.s
Another option to Enn's, is to use a service like UpTime Robot to continually visit your page (like every 5 minutes), this not only generates a request but also will help keep your site awake and from going to sleep if you can't manually set the Worker Processor to never go to sleep.
Windows Scheduler is the most reliable, but UpTime robot has worked well for us.
https://uptimerobot.com/
Under the "Scheduled Tasks" module there is a schedule task called "Report subscription sender". This task runs every minute and is responsible for checking your subscriptions and sending e-mails based on your configuration. This task runs within the Kentico instance. By default IIS will put the site/app pool to sleep after x (default 20) minutes of idle and the scheduled tasks are no longer able to run. When you hit the site it wakes the process back up and the scheduled task is able to run again. You can go into IIS and configure the "Idle Time-out (minutes)" for the application pool see this link https://patrickdesjardins.com/blog/iis-no-sleep-idle-and-autostart-with-values for a pretty good illustration. You can also adjust the app pool recycle intervals but that is probably not necessary for your issue.
The other option, as mentioned by Enn, is to install the Kentico Scheduler Windows service which always runs and configure that scheduled task to run in the service.
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I have a machine setup to run automated tests. I have some software, including Fiddler running as scheduled tasks on start up without user required to log in.
But tests fail, since traffic is not going through Fiddler. When I log in to that machine, I can see in Task Manager Fiddler running as background process.
I've tried starting the task as my user and as System.
Trying to figure out how to have traffic go through that fiddler instance. Thank you!
4/27 Update
So it had to do with the user that scheduled task was set to run from. After playing with it, I figured my user was set incorrectly. Now it looks like traffic goes through Fiddler, as tests are passing. But nowhere I can see the traffic. Fiddler is running as background process and I can't find the folder where it stores temp files. I have also tried setting autosave to a file every 5 minutes. And while it works when I run fiddler in UI, no sessions are saved when it runs as background process.
I use a python script to send mails. The script runs a VBA macro.
I'm scheduling the python script to run at a particular time.
Configuration
My trust settings in Outlook has all macros enabled.
I'm running the task with highest priority too.
Problem
I am able to send mails if I run the script manually.
However, when I try to run it via Windows Task Scheduler, mails are not being sent.
Try a different scheduler and see if this works.
For example Splinterware system scheduler.
Trying a different scheduler can help you figure out if the problem is
a setting in the scheduler (like not having the password entered)
or in your Python script (which would affect all schedulers)
There is a way to send emails from Outlook automatically without the use of Task Scheduler. It is outlined neatly here.
It uses recurring reminders, so Outlook must be kept running at all times (but the macro is only executed when the reminder fires).
I have several scheduled tasks performing different jobs on windows server machine at my current work, but it looks like I'm living this company soon and I have worries about these jobs future after the time when my windows account will be disabled.
Will all gonna be okey with them?
These task's can be run even if you're not there but you have configured that the Task can run "Run whether the user is Logged in or not" or else it is not possible. you can still edit it even after creating it. but I'm not sure it will work even after deleting your account.
I have a queue that should only be read by a specific program. However, I have discovered that some other program is "stealing" messages from that queue. Is there a way to determine which program does that? I couldn't come up with anything.
For a given service account, set read-message and peek-message permissions on the queue, and then ensure that only the consumer runs under that service account.
UPDATE
On Windows server 2008 or Windows 7 or higher, MSMQ has a dedicated system event log which records everything the MSMQ subsystem does. It may be possible to see what user account is accessing the queue via this.
What is the best way to stop/start Fiddler as a daily task?
I am usin Fiddler to monitor/logs https trafficon machine which runs fully automated and runs software which is not controlled by me, but uses https.
My machine stopped yesterday because Fiddler went out of memory after running over 3 days and now I want to have a clean way to start/stop it.
I guess I could just specify a process duration in the task manager, but I would prefer something cleaner, especially to avoid issues when things are started manually.
Just use Scheduled Tasks, they have been part of windows since forever. You should be able to stop fiddler with it too (by calling TaskKill).