Running SharePoint timer jobs from PowerShell

Question

We are currently moving from using stsadm to using PowerShell for our SharePoint installation scripts.

We were unable to find an equivalence to this:

stsadm -o -execadmsvcjobs 

We tried to pause, but it depends on the length of the pause.

Is there an equivalent command in PowerShell, or can we run this command from PowerShell?

Answer 1

We decided to use this solution from Sohel Blog

http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/sharepoint-2010-deployment-powershell.html

Answer 2

Check out the Start-SPAdminJob here

According to this article , this is the equivalent of execadmsvcjobs.

Answer 3

Try using something like this:

 $wa = Get-SPWebApplication $url Get-SPTimerJob | ?{$_.Name -match "VariationsCreateHierarchies"} | ?{$_.Parent -eq $wa} | Start-SPTimerJob 

This snippet launches the Create Variables task for a web application in $ url