Content deployment retry configuration

Only a part of the Content Deployment configuration settings are configurable through the central administration user interface, some of the settings have to be done in the web.config of the central administration website while others can only be accessed through the API.

The settings that can be configured through the web.config are discussed here. These settings relate to the Export phase of the content deployment process.

Options that can be configured through the central administration web configuration:

RetryOption: When content deployment jobs are executed in parallel or if content authoring is in progress when the job is running you may encounter many random exceptions. This is an enumeration ExportRetryOption.

The possible values for RetryOption include:

None (0) - default

SkipFailedWebs (1)

SimpleRetry (2)

Note: The enumeration is marked as internal and hence is not exposed through the API.

ExportRetries: This is used in parallel with the RetryOption. This is a number indicating the number of times the content export will retry before throwing up an error. Possible values are 1-999.

A more detailed explanation is described in Part 3 of the series on content deployment by Stefan Gobner.

http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2009/11/02/content-deployment-the-complete-guide-part-3-configuration.aspx

Note: These settings are part of the build 12.0000.6315.5000 or later.