Is your SharePoint Alerts not working ? Please Try out the below steps

How many of you have faced this challenge ? SharePoint Alerts (Email) are not working for a certain Site Collection in a web Application.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

In this blog , I will give you the list of the steps which you can use it for troubleshooting the SharePoint Email alerts in case it is not working. 

 

Understanding SharePoint Alerts 

 

In SharePoint 2010 and 2013,  the below jobs are responsible for email alerts.

1. Job-immediate-alerts
2. Job-daily-alerts
3. Job-weekly-alerts  

Immediate Alerts Job - sends out email immediately from the SharePoint environment

Daily Alerts Job - Sends out email everyday

Weekly Alerts Job - Sends out email on every week.

 

Resolution :

 

Please try to enable immediate job  alerts once through stsadm commands , this may solve your alert issue.

 

stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname job-immediate-alerts -propertyvalue "every 5 minutes" -url  "http://myhost/mysite"

 

 Happy SharePointing :-)