Here is an interesting issue that I came across recently. My Team Foundation Server had been installed with a email server that it could not get to. I had to change the server name because I could not get any Alerts to work. To change this value for the Foundation Server (at least with the RC) then I had look in the web.config under the Services folder under the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server folder. To find this, I just searched for web.config and found the correct folder.
The key used to send Alerts is shown below.
<add key="smtpServer" value="localhost" />
You can also set the value that is used for the From Address for the Alerts. This key is shown below.
<add key="emailNotificationFromAddress" value="notify@sark.com" />
I did not use Alerts for my first Team System project and now that I have used them, I would not give up Alerts for anything.
Happy Coding!
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