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a Type of TFS notification sent to stakeholders when an event occurs.

Alerts was originally released as a plugin for Team Foundation Server 2010 but became a feature in future versions. It allows for a notifications sent to stakeholders when an event occurs. Such check-in of code, a state change of a work item, and assigning of a work item and so forth.

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Can TFS 2013 have email notications to multiple users that watch a work item

I'm looking to reproduce the Jira watch functionality in TFS 2013. In Jira, you can click a link to watch an item and thereafter you will be notified when anything on that item changes. I know on TFS you can: be emailed if anyone changes a bug you…
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"[Me]" variable for custom field alerts in TFS 2013

I added a custom field (Test Prime) in TFS. Since I wanted a drop down of valid TFS users, I copied the setup of the Assigned To control (String, Dimension, ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE, VALIDUSER, and SYNCNAMECHANGES). I want to be able to set up an alert…
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Visual Studio TFS Alerts: How to send out an alert upon successful publish of a web application?

I have taken a look at alerts management for TFS 2012 after installing power tools, and I can see about four types of alert templates: Work Item Code Review Check In Build I was wondering if there was a possibility of having a supported way to…
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TFS 2012 Alert when test case fails

When using TFS 2012 we create Product Backlog Items (PBI) and assign those to a responsible developer. We generate a test suite per PBI. We'd like to alert the "owner" of the PBI (whoever the PBI is assigned to) when a test case fails that is on a…
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TFS 2012 - Email Alerts not working

We have a TFS 2012 server and have tried to enable email alerts. However, we never receive them. I have set up both team alerts and alerts specific to my account. When configuring the SMTP settings in the TFS Admin Console, I have tried leaving the…
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Alert when TFS team query definition is modified

Is it possible to create a TFS alert that notifies when a work item Team Query definition has been modified? Not the results of the query, but the actual query itself.
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How to change TFS sender ID?

I am using TFS hosted service at visualstudio.com I have successfully setup Alerts for my account. I am receiving these alert emails from this ID: admin@visualstudio.com Is it possible to change it to reflect our company name ?
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TFS Alert Server Plugin, for Sending Mail On History Change

I have server plugin for TFS which send mail when something is assign to person. Now what I have to do is, my plugin will send the mail on history change. example: (mak) have assigned a bug to (betty). betty change the state of bug and assigned to…
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TFS Alert if change was made by users in a certain TFS Group / AD Group?

I am trying to set up an alert that will send me an email when someone who has Work Item Only View access creates/changes a Work Item. I can create a query which returns me a list of Work Items which were created by WIOV users, by using 'Created By…
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Is it possible to set up a project alert for a TFS site collection

Is it possible to set up an email project alert for the entire TFS collection or do they need to be created for each individual project in the collection? I have tons of projects in my site collection and would like an email to be sent to our dev…
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How to set alert for any change in specific User Story or Work Item in TFS 2008

I know how to set alert for any change in Work Item(Team->Project Alert) which are assigned to my name. But I need to track changes in particular Work Item in TFS by setting email alert against it,which is not assigned in my name. I am using TFS…
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Unable to assign WIT alerts to specific users without who don't have admin rights

A team member without admin rights needs to be notified when WITs are assigned or changed. The login emails for our system is not the same as the work email and assigned to me is the only default option. Changing the delivery settings and using a…
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How to display build warnings in TFS alert email

The TFS alert email for completed builds contains a list of build errors. We are using an on-premises TFS 2018 server (a.k.a. Azure DevOps Server). However, I would like to see the list of build warnings, too. I already read the numerous posts on…
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Don't Alert when Gated Checkin Fails

We have a team alert in TFS 2015 that sends an email out to all developers whenever one of our builds fails. I'd like to modify it to not issue emails when someone fails a private build, or a private gated check-in fails (we don't use gated…
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TFS 2013: How to set Alert on specific Branch

Project Alerts are too broad for my organization. I need to be able to set alerts at the branch level, and for specific users. Thanks in advance!
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