TFS 2008: How do I setup the Alert functionality?

Question

The alerts that I setup for source code changes isn't being triggered. I suspect that the email server settings are wrong, but where would I configure them?

Answer 1

This looks like what you're looking for http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms400808.aspx

Answer 2

you may need to change these two files:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server\Web Services\Services\Web.config

<appSettings>
...
<add key="smtpServer" value="mySmtpServer" />

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team System Web Access\Web\web.config

 <webAccessSettings>
    ...
    <emailSettings sendingEmailEnabled="true" />
...
</webAccessSettings>
<system.net>
<mailSettings>
<smtp deliveryMethod="network" from="fromaddress@domain.com">
<network host="mySmtpServer" port="25" defaultCredentials="true"  .... />
....

There's good blog post on the topic here