Alerts not working on a document library!
Yesterday I was doing some testing on the “Alert Me” feature on a document library and I noticed I received the initial email notifying that my alert has been successfully created. But when add add or delete documents I was not getting any alerts.
Obviously my outgoing email is working fine because I got the initial email but not the alerts later on.
I opened Central admin->Operations->Timer job definitions and checked for a job called “immediate alerts”
Bingo the immediate alerts for the particular has been disabled!
So i logged into server, opened up a cmd and typed
stsadm -o getproperty -pn jobs-immediate-alerts -url http://myteamsite.companyname.com
I got a response as <property exist=”no”>
I enabled the alerts with the followind command
stsadm -o setproperty -pn jobs-immediate-alerts -url http://myteamsite.companyname.com -pv true
This will enable the alerts, the alerts are processed for every 5 minutes which is default, you can change it to whatever time frame you want with the following command
stsadm -o setproperty -pn jobs-immediate-alerts -url http://myteamsite.companyname.com -pv “every 2 minutes between 0 and 59″
This will set the system to process immediate alerts every 2 minutes.
Note: You have to run these commands on the WFE else you will get a “the system cannot find the path specified” message
Also, when you turn on these alerts SP will process all the old changes also and users might get a bunch of emails telling them changes have been made to this document library.
1. In the address bar, type about:config and hit enter
2. Firefox will warn you about making changes, click on I’ll be careful, I promise!
3. You will be presented with a list of preferences.
4. In the filter bar, type NTLM
5. Check to see “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-proxies” preference has “TRUE” under value.
6. If not double click to change the value to “TRUE”
7. After doing this Double click on “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” and enter http://extshare.ninds.nih.gov, http://share.ninds.nih.gov
8. This will allow Firefox to accept windows credentials for above mentioned sites
