An error occurred while creating the WebJob schedule

Question

I an trying to publish my website along with few WebJobs but after the website and the jobs are created on the Azure Website, I see an error on the VS.NET 2013 that says:

Answer 1

After recent updates, something changed. I was unable to publish to any of my subscriptions where I had a scheduled job. After much digging around, the solution is as follows: - Right click solution and Manage NuGet Packages for Solution - Change all Web Publish modules down to version 1.0.3

Publish. Problem solved.

Answer 2

Tried everything here and still had the same issue but I managed to resolve by doing the following:

I have a package called Microsoft.Web.WebJobs.Publish installed which was running an old version (1.0.3). I updated to the latest, currently 1.10.12, and then the app and webjob/schedule published first time.

Answer 3

Try updating to Version 2.9 of the Azure SDK, which fixes a related issue:

Repaired issue related to Scheduled WebJobs in which the authentication information was failing to be passed to the Scheduler provisioning process

(https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2015-update2-vs.aspx)

EDIT:

I ultimately gave up using this scheduler, and switched to the Kudu Scheduler (Internal WebJob Scheduler). See: https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Web-jobs#scheduling-a-triggered-webjob

It is actually easier to set up. All you need to do is add a settings.json file to the webjob with the following contents: {"schedule": "the schedule as a cron expression"}

The pros and cons of using the using the Azure Scheduler vs the Kudu Scheduler are discussed here: http://blog.amitapple.com/post/2015/06/scheduling-azure-webjobs/#.Vz4sk5ErJaQ

An important limitation not mentioned in that blog post is that creating a schedule more frequent than hourly is not supported on the free tier of the scheduler (which you are probably using if you haven't intentionally changed it, as it is separate from the app service tier). This is what finally drove me to the Kudu scheduler, as I needed to schedule my job to run every 15 minutes

Answer 4

I have spent all day on this. The solution for me was to do a manual deployment of the web job via uploading a ZIP and scheduling it as desired. Then, in VS, I did Add Existing Project as Web Job and publishing the Web Site updates the scheduled Web Job as expected.