Comments on: SharePoint Alerts Not Working

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:58:32 +0000

That was greatly appreaciated. Fortunately ADMINISTRATOR was in the Farm so it worked without having to add anything to it.

Appreciate the advice.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:33:59 +0000

Only if the Local Administrator account is a SharePoint Farm Administrator, which I kinda doubt. In Central [Administration] - [Security] - [Manage the farm administrators group] you will see the accounts that would work.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:33:27 +0000

So, to help out a mere novice, the statement

Windows SharePoint Services Timer” Log On account was set to “Network Service”. It actually needed to be a Farm Administrator account.

If I change the Properties of this service, Log On Tab, from “Network Service” to “ADMINISTRATOR” will that be all I require?

Any advice would be great.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:46:21 +0000

Megan, Glad it helped. I’m really not totally sure about your question but I would think it should work.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:31:18 +0000

Hi,

Thanks so much!!! your article just helped me out of a huge pickle. Will a group receive the alert emails if they only have view permission instead of read?

Thanks again

By: Stewart

Stewart — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:13:46 +0000

Yeah, that is definitely a gotcha to watch out for.

Sorry you had to call MS, but glad you were able to get the issue resolved.

Thanks for posting your resolution!

By: Pritin

Pritin — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:08:10 +0000

I also had this issue. I would recieve the inital alert but subsequent alerts were not received. After phoning Microsoft Technical Support, it turned out that Windows SharePoint Services Timer” Log On account was set to “Network Service”. It actually needed to be a Farm Administrator account. After changing this the alerts worked perfectly.

By: Sruthi

Sruthi — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:35:19 +0000

Hi,
Thanks alot for adding your solution..it help me to get through..

By: stewart

stewart — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:56:15 +0000

Raimond – Thanks for adding your solution. You are probably right about it starting “some kind of updates”. Sharepoint can be very touchy and unpredictable. Glad you were able to get your issue resolved.

By: Raimond

Raimond — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:39:48 +0000

We had a problem where initial mesasge about alert created were sent, but the alerts themselves where not sent. This happened after we installed a second web front end.
I followed every guide I could find but in my case everything was fine with the alerts and the setup, and the database tables for sched, it just didnt send.
We got it solved by entering ip-address instead of servername in the Outgoing Mail Server in Central Administration. Go figure. Maybe that started some kind of updates through the solution.