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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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How can I manage all the alerts in TFS

Yesterday I created few alerts for changes in specific folders in TFS (in VS 2010, Source Control Explorer: File->Source Control...->Alert on change). Now I see that I'm getting much more traffic than I expected so I wanted to remove some of the…
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TFS code review alerts

I want to change my TFS code review alerts so I am only notified about a change to it at the time that I am added to the review, and not every time other people who are also on the review are posting comments. I tried changing the alert filters…
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Email Notifications/Alerts from Builds in TFS 2010

I am having problems getting the team alerts to work in TFS 2010. Under "Team > Project Alerts", I have checked the box to send both myself and a colleague an email upon a completed build. I know I have entered the correct email addresses, correct…
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TFS 2010 Email Alerts - Filter by more than one Status Code?

I am setting up my email alerts in TFS 2010 using the Alerts Explorer from the TFS Power Tools. I want to receive an email when a build either fails or partially succeeds. The filter seems to be too basic to achieve this. I have created the filter…
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Custom Field Alerts in TFS 2012

I added a custom field (Product Owner) 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). I want to be able to set up an alert that says: Product…
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TFS - Create alerts for successful release to specifc environment

How can I create an alert in TFS that sends an email to someone when a release is successful to a particular environment? In particular, I would like VSTS to send an email to the QA Team manager when a build is sucessfully released to the TEST…
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TFS 2015.1 alerts for Pull Request not showing on multiple source control collection

I have a server with TFS2015.1 installed and since this update I have added some git repositories to an existing collection. Historically it was using TFS version control, but more recently we have started to look at using git more prolifically, and…
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TFS Alert for check-in by certain users only

I have a team of nine, but four including myself are senior developers. We don't review each others work, but I'd like to get alerts for check-ins of the junior developers. The devs here do many many micro-checkins. So email spams up pretty quick.…
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Increment version number in versioninfo during tfsbuild

I am currently configuring my .NET 4.5 solution in the TFS Build 2010. I am working with Visual Studio. I have a versioninfo.cs file as part of my solution. How can I set this up to increment the version number in it during the build process? What…
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Is it possible to generate build emails in Visual Studio Team Services for a successful build ONLY if the previous build was a failure?

As far as I can tell from the current interface provided for setting up e-mail alerts for builds in visual studio team services, there is no way to set a condition on the status of the previous build. I expect this is relevant to many development…
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Is it possible to stop build in TFS automatically?

I'd like to be able to stop build for some build definitions programmatically. First I thought about creating some event handler (soap service or TFS plugin) to solve this issue. But unfortunatelly it seems like there isn't appropriate event in TFS…
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Trigger email alerts in TFS 2015 on Test Case outcome analysis owner assignment

I had a user ask there was a special rule or filed for email alerts to trigger when test case results analysis owner is assigned. Or is that just a simple trigger on work item being assigned?
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TFS 2015 alerts

I want to assign alerts for my team project as followed: 1. Every build that failed will trigger an email notification for the last developer that committed a change. In additional send the same email to the code reviewer. I only found that a failed…
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TFS Alerts: What is the difference between "Server Item" and "Folder Path"

I'm setting Alerts on a TFS server, and I'm wondering what the difference is between these Alert settings: Server Item Under $/Some/TFS/Path Folder Path Under $/Some/TFS/Path Folder Path = $/Some/TFS/Path
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How to get all event subscriptions for each user in TFS using C#?

I've got a requirement to get all users who don't recieve email alerets when WorkItems related to them are edited. As I supose, TFS provides alerts based on some kind of events, and each user have to be a subscriber for a particular event. I can get…
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