Through the last few years, I’ve been trying to organise the bulk of information that comes to me every day. Next to RSS feeds, alerts are my second best friend(s). Not only for our corporate intranet and project sites (SharePoint alerts), but also with Google Alerts I keep up to date with interesting content!
This made me browse into a new product called ‘WSS Alert Manager’, how ironic brought to me by Google Alerts. I often get questions about how to push or deal with alerts in SharePoint. People that want to assign alerts to groups of people and so on. SharePoint by default isn’t designed to push alerts.. it’s a peronalization feature after all.
However, this product might be the solution for all those questions:
“WSS Alert Manager for SharePoint enables administrators to subscribe other SharePoint users to alerts on any list, document library or document; add, change and delete alerts for one or more users on any list, document library or document in a site;
efficiently handle sites with large numbers of lists and users; and locate and select users by login, preferred name or e-mail address, or by using partial words, wildcards or pattern matching.
WSS Alert Manager is available in several languages including US English, UK English, Dutch and German. “
For more information go here or download a trial.