Thursday, June 7, 2012

Viewing all user alerts on a SharePoint site

I find the User Alerts page in SharePoint 2007 and 2010 (viewable at http://sitename/_layouts/sitesubs.aspx) absolutely horrible to work with.  I don't want to click through every single user to see what alerts they have.  I'm amazed that Microsoft have still yet to improve this.

In the meantime, there are other alternatives.  There is a paid software option by Bamboo Solutions which looks very nice (at http://store.bamboosolutions.com/ps-74-5-alerts-administrator.aspx).  Or if you, like me, can't justify the cost of this application for the sake of getting this information once in a blue moon (and don't want to exploit the Free Trial), there is an SQL alternative, as detailed on the Just Geeks blog post here: http://justgeeks.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/using-sql-server-to-view-all-alerts-in.html.  Might not be as pretty as Bamboo Alerts Administrator but was perfectly fine for what I needed.

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