Quiescing a SharePoint 2010 Farm as in SharePoint 2007

In SharePoint 2007 you had the ability to quiesce the farm inside central administration. This ability is not implemented in SharePoint 2010, you need to use the STSADM command to achieve this.

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stsadm -o quiescefarm -maxduration minutes

But, I have done some research and development to achieve the same as in SharePoint 2007. In this blog post I will explain you how you can quiesce your farm by code, and I deliver you my SharePoint 2010 Solution file that makes the same functionality as in SharePoint 2007 available.

QuiesceFarm Solution

Programming

To be able to start writing some code to quiesce your farm, you need to add the following reference to your project: “Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration”.

The next step is to retrieve your farm “SessionStateService”. This service allows you to quiesce the farm.

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SessionStateService sessionStateService = SPFarm.Local.Services.GetValue();

Now the only thing we need is to write some code to quiesce the farm and to stop the quiescing.

The code for quiescing the farm, looks like this:

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sessionStateService.Quiesce(new TimeSpan(0, 0, 10));
sessionStateService.Update();

The code to stop the quiescing of the farm, looks like this:

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sessionStateService.Unquiesce();
sessionStateService.Update();

SharePoint 2010 Quiesce Solution

The solution that I have created enables you to quiesce the SharePoint 2010 farm through central administration. This solution is based on the SharePoint 2007 version.