Hi Forum,

What is the best and safest way to restart the SharePoint Timer Service in SharePoint 2013?

A) PowerShell Multiple Servers:
$farm = Get-SPFarm
$farm.TimerService.Instances | foreach { $_.Stop(); $_.Start(); }

B) PowerShell Single Server:
restart-service sptimerv4

C) CMD:
net stop SPTimerV4
net start SPTimerV4

Since my environment consists of multiple servers, I feel that the first option (A) is easier and more practical - But, Is it safe and effective?

What is the reason you're needing to restart the timer service? At any rate, it doesn't matter _how_ you do it, as long as you're not going to Task Manager and killing owstimer.

Trevor, We are using some custom components and as a part of upgrading these components, We need to restart the SharePoint Timer service on all servers.



So, I was wondering what is the best/safest way to do it?



I have always used CMD:
net stop SPTimerV4
net start SPTimerV4



One by one on every server and never had issue - Shall I do the same this time too to avoid any issues or shall I try something new?

All of the ways you originally asked about are valid and safe.