When Scheduled Tasks in Sitecore Never Run

I recently ran into an issue where scheduled tasks weren't running on my development machine but worked fine in production. It turns out it was a "feature" of the Sitecore Instance Manager. The InitializeSpeedBooster.config disables them.

To renable them, remove the <patch:delete /> line.

<processor type="Sitecore.Pipelines.Loader.InitializeScheduler, Sitecore.Kernel">
  <patch:delete />
</processor>

Thanks to Adamsimsy on Stackoverflow for the solution.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13506278/sitecore-schedule-task-not-running