Hi, I am trying to set up an alert on SharePoint to go out to everybody in an AD Security Group. I encountered the problem that the initial "Alert Created" email went out to everybody, but after that the actual alerts don't get sent. Googling this problem has taken me to a lot of sites with a similar problem, but unfortunately I haven't found a solution that works for me. It seems one of the key points is that the Security Group needs to be added to a SharePoint Group that has got access permissions to the list I am trying to alert on. I have done that. I have added the AD Group to a SharePoint Group that has got read, view and contribute permissions to the list. But still no success. I have added an individual alert for myself and that comes through just fine. But the alert to the Security Group just isn't being sent. Am I missing something else?

Hi, Firstly, go to site actions > site settings >modify all site settings > site administration > user alerts and check if your alert is there for your security group and, also, check you have set alerts in list level or item level. Secondly, here is an article to introduce troubleshooting alerts: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vedvyas/archive/2009/09/02/troubleshooting-moss-alerts.aspx Hope it is helpful! Seven

Seven, thanks for the links. Unfortunately I couldn't fix the problem with the information on those sites. The alerts in general work, and the email is set up correctly. If I register an individual to the alert it works without problems. However, as soon as I add a security group to the alert, the emails are not sent. That is, the initial email is sent, but any actual change alert is not. So far most authors suggest that this is a spermission error, but I have added the security group to the general viewers group and it should now have full access to the list I am running the alert on. I even tried giving the security group contribute access and still the alerts are not being sent.

Hi, First of all, run IISRESET and then try again. Secondly, go to central administration > operation > timer job definitions > “web application” view > select your web application in the menu bar to check if Immediate alerts working fine. If not, please run the following operations: stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname alerts-enabled -propertyvalue false -url http://... stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname alerts-enabled -propertyvalue true -url http://... stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname job-immediate-alerts -propertyvalue "every 5 minutes" -url http://... And then try again. At last, if the issue is still there, please check your email server settings in terms of the following articles: http://www.sharepoint-tips.com/2007/10/email-alerts-not-getting-sent-while.html http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointworkflow/thread/36c3b5b5-af03-4f8a-b202-b62db330c21c/ Hope it is helpful! Seven

Unfortunately this didn't fix the problem, either. The Job Status seems to run fine. No problems there (at least according to SharePoint it all succeeds). And the sending of emails to groups actually works, as the group received the initial notification that the alert has been set up. It is just the actual alert notifications that don't get sent.

I am having this same issue. Did anyone find a resolution?

I used the alert pipeline to rout my alerts. it seemed to work when i could not get alerts to work for a client. http://sptoolbox.codeplex.com/releases/view/8255 Nagesh