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Removing Project Alerts

Hi,

I have a question regarding project alerts. I have subscribed to events by using the UI in Visual Studio. Since then, my old computer has been reformatted and I have a new computer. When I try to look at my project alerts in the UI (Team->Project Alerts), the Send To fields are empty. I would like to remove the project alerts I have subscribed to. Is there any way to do this?

Regards

Thomas L

Yes, you can use bissubscribe.exe tool to unsubscribe, you will need to know the id of the event, but this you can check on the database "TfsIntegration" on the team foundation server, and check on the table "tbl_client_event", but this is just for checking the ID, DO NOT delete directly from database, use bissusbscribe.exe instead:

BisSubscribe /unsubscribe /id <id> [/server <servername>]

which is under the folder %Program Files%Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\TF Setup on the server

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Luis Fraile

What can you do if bissubscribe /unsubscribe does not work? I have a couple of subscriptions that I am trying to remove, but am receiving an object reference error when I try to unsubscribe.

Any suggestions?

Karl Costenbader

Answered my own question: was able to unsubscribe by specifying the server parameter as well. I don't think that an object reference error is quite the right way for bissubscribe to handle not being able to communicate with the server.

Karl Costenbader

Karl,

We'll look into the null reference error and sorry for the inconveniences that you've had.

Jeff Lucovsky

Hi Karl,

Can you show me the bissubscribe commands you used, and exactly what errors you got?

Patrick Ng - Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Patrick Ng - MSFT

Hi,

The command was something like this (for enabling continuous integration):

Bissubscribe /eventType CheckinEvent /address http://tsweb01:8080/ci/notify.asmx 
  /deliveryType Soap /domain http://tsweb01:8080

The errror is:

Error - Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

I checked event viewer to see if anything was logged there, but couldn't find anything.

Note that if I add the /server parameter, the command completes successfully.

Thanks

Karl Costenbader

I think the error is in "/domain http://tsweb01:8080 " I suppouse "tsweb01" is your TFS and not your domain, as it must refer to the domain name in AD, so it must be trying to get (maybe I don't know for sure) some reference to AD domain which is not correct.

Luis Fraile - MCSD.NET - http://luisfraile.spaces.live.com/

Luis Fraile

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