Migrate Inplace Custom Timer Job to Online

Hi All,
I am pretty new in SharePoint Online, we have planned to migrate all SharePoint 2010 In-place contents to SharePoint Online. We have few timer jobs deployed in our farm and do not have access to Online servers to migrate custom timer jobs.
Hence what should be the best strategy to migrate these?
Regards,
Ripon Kundu

Timer jobs cannot be migrated or created in Office 365. You do not have the access to run those things.
You'll have to re-design your solution.

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Hi,
You can use any of the three approaches:-
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http://praveenkasireddy.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/access-web-application-configuration-values-in-timer-job-sharepoint/
2) Store the configuration in xml and upload it to SharePoint document library then read from there
http://www.sharepointdynamics.net/2011/08/using-an-xml-settings-file-to-store-values-for-your-sharepoint-projects/
3) Programmatically configure a WCF endpoint.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647110.aspx
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Hello,
It seems you have deployed your event receiver globally and it is applied to all the lists. I can suggest two ways:
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Using the timer jobs the items which are present in the one list must get updated in the another list and also should be overwritten.
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http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/403323/SharePoint-Create-Custom-Timer-Jobs
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of this solution, it just like a switch during the life cycle of a solution in a SharePoint site collection which will make us easier to manage the features coming with a solution package.
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Access Denied in Timer Job

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According to your description, my understanding is that you want to get the current user in a timer job.
"Timerjob runs completely independent from users browsing the site and it runs inside OWSTIMER.EXE".
"There is no relationship between users browsing the site and what the timerjob does in OWSTIMER.EXE".
"With other words: the timerjob has no idea about which users (it can be multiple different or also no one at the time the job runs) are currently browsing to the site".
"So the timerservice cannot get the info about the users accessing the w3wp.exe process".
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