What user context do SharePoint timer jobs run under? The farm account?
I’m going to be accessing some external resources (network share) via the timer job, so I need to know which SharePoint service account to grant permissions.
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Yes, in all documents in Technet, it’s ‘SharePoint farm account’.
In fact, it’s the user which run the OWSTimer job.