Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2007 Bible

Finding Content with Alerts

When users subscribe to alerts anywhere on the portal, the search service processes those alerts. This interdependence means that if search is not working, alerts also are not working; and in addition, the search server performance can be impacted if your portal has a lot of alert subscriptions.

There is a unique additional scenario where search and alerts are combined. Users can subscribe to search-based alerts so that they receive notifications when the results of their search query have changed. This ability can be enabled or disabled at the SSP. Search-based alerts increase the load on the search server that processes the search query each time it processes the search-based alert. If you want to enable or disable this feature, follow these steps:

1.	Navigate to the administration page for your Shared Service Provider and select Search settings from the Search section.
2.	Select Search-based alerts.
3.	Click Activate if you want to activate the feature. If the feature is already activated, it displays this status in the Search-based Alerts section.
4.	Click Deactivate if you want to deactivate the feature. If the feature is already deactivated, it displays this status in the Search-based Alerts section.

If you want to review and manage what alerts are active on your sites, follow these steps:

1.	Choose Site Settings from the Site Actions menu on the site in which you want to review alerts.
2.	Select User alerts from the Site Administration menu.
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