TFS 2013 (Update 2) Team Alerts not sending emails

Question

I've followed the discussion here and I do have a similar case right after I applied Update-2 to TFS 2013 (Update-1). NOTE: Everything used to work fine prior the upgrade.

• Personal alerts DO work, so it is not an obvious SMTP server error.
• Team alerts DO NOT work.
• TFS 2013 IS CONNECTED to Active Directory.
• All users have email addresses.
• No errors whatsoever in event viewer.

I would appreciate the help. Thanks.

Answer 1

I think I figured out what is happening. It all boils down to this: Teams who are not part of Contributors group are not able to receive email notifications.

This behavior is new and was introduced in Update 2 (Update 1 used to work fine).

More discussion about this can be found here

Also, I filled a bug report to Microsoft Connect Feedback here