• Hosting providers can save time and money resolving user requests for creating, deleting, or editing SharePoint alerts within a Web Application by simply grouping alerts by user name.
• For organizations who want to ensure users are alerted to important and specific corporate information, corporate SharePoint Administrators can easily create multiple alerts for each user (or an Active Directory security group) in one simple step.
• Department Site Administrators who need to manage user alerts for their department site and all its subsites can prevent this task from impacting their productivity by managing SharePoint alerts from one location.

How does it work?

The Alerts Administrator enables Site Administrators to view, create, organize, and manage user alerts for sites across Site Collections within a Web Application from a site tree. SharePoint alerts are created using the same SharePoint alert options available in SharePoint today. Users with the Full Control permission can access the Alerts Administrator to manage user alerts across sites. Site Administrators can only manage sites they have appropriate permission level access to. Site Administrators can view alerts for first-level subsites under a Site Collection node or site node in one consolidated view.

This product is a SharePoint feature and is installed as a solution through the SharePoint Installer. Once installed, the Alerts Administrator feature can be activated or deactivated at the Web Application level in SharePoint Central Administration on the SharePoint server. Once activated, this product is available to all site collections within the Web Application. Site Administrators can select a site from the site tree in the left pane, then add, edit, delete, enable/disable, group, filter or sort user alerts for the selected site in the right pane.

Site Administrators can access Alerts Administrator from the Site Actions drop-down menu or from the Site Administration section of Site Settings.