Whats the best way to deliver TFS build status notifications to the team?

Question

I like the status email sent by TFS's alerts mechanism when a build breaks. However I would like to send such an email to the entire team and not rely on the team to subscribe to the alert...

Having a hard time producing a nice and detailed enough message by myself when overriding the "OnBuildBreak" and using the MSBuildCommunityTasks EMail task.

Is there a way to force a TFS alert to be sent to a list of emails? Can you recommend of a way to send such status notifications?

Answer 1

You could try.

Brian the build bunny

:-)

Answer 2

The Team Build Tray Notification tool what is included in the TFS 2008 Power Tools is very useful for this.

See Buck Hodges' blog for screenshots and more information.

Answer 3

I don't want to dig up an old topic, but for those that stumble upon it two years late (like me), this is built into TFS 2010 now.

Answer 4

Set up an email alias for the team on the mail server, and enter this when subscribing to the mail.

Try the Team Foundation Server Event Subscription Tool. This allows you to send emails to any address when any TFS event occurs.