Danish Hussain

Working with MOSS is great but sometime its make you crazy for small issues. That happens to me......... I was working with document library and adding alerts on document for notification from MOSS whenever any new document get inserted in the system. I realize that few of my alerts were not working. i.e. I get the initial email from Sharepoint application telling me that you have subscribed for alerts but when I did insertion nothing comes up in my inbox. I did lot of searching on internet but didn't find anything related to my issue. I have verified that my timer service was properly scheduled and running and my user has proper rights on document library. After sometime I realize that my alerts were working fine with normal document library but were behaving abnormally when I try to us custom content type. So I remove required alert and add a new alert for all type of changes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and suddenly I get flooded with alerts in my alerts. Now I understand issue. ...

Sending alerts to users are much easier and administrator can assign active directory user for dispatching emails. Please note that share point uses email address from user’s profile for dispatching emails. Therefore alert cannot be configured for user if email address is not associated in active directory account. Coming back to original points sending alerts to groups can be of two types. 1. Sending alert to AD Group 2. Sending alert to Share point Group For sending email to AD Group you need to make sure two things. 1. Group needs to be “email enabled security group”. As distribution lists are not supported in share point 2. You need to explicitly add group in permission setting in list/Document Library etc There is one limitation is that you cannot edit group and can only delete/recreate alert from Site Action->Site Setting ->User Alert (Site Administration) option For Sending email to Share point Group There is no out of box support for sending email alerts to share point gr...