RE: Users notified of Alert creation but do not receive alert - Sharepoint

Are you able to remove the DST patch to get this to work? Or do you
have to follow the steps to create a new account?

Thanks,
Mark

On Jun 14, 2:20 pm, Eric <E...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> We had same issue. Turns outDSTpatch breaks the timer service logon user
> account. In our case it reverted back to an AD account no longer used. We
> created new AD account, made sure it had access to external SQL server's
> content DB (since its not on same box), and last but not least the timer
> service account needs admin access to thesharepointserver it's running on.
> So put the timer logon AD account in the local administrator group. Now,
> granted thats a tall order to put the timer account in the local admin group
> of thesharepointserver. I'm sure it could be tightened up and I will look
> into that. But for now we are in good shape withAlertshere. Maybe it will
> help you all.
> Cheers,
> Eric
>
>
>
> "Anthony" wrote:
> > Hi there,
>
> > I'm running WSS 3.0 on an SBS machine. Users who subscribe toalertsin the
> > document library receive an immediate email informing them of the creation of
> > the alert. However, they fail to receive anyalerts(even when every possible
> > option for alerting is checked).
>
> > I came across some posts suggesting that it might be a problem of the Timer
> > Service not having access to the content database, but usage processing
> > (which I understand needs the same requirement) works fine.
>
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