Create SharePoint Alert for a Group
SharePoint doesn’t provide a direct way to create alerts for groups. Alerts are always targeted to individual user accounts in SharePoint. If you have a requirement to create alerts for a group of people, create an E-mail enabled AD security group and add an alert to it from SharePoint.
Set alert to a group in SharePoint using PowerShell:
Alternatively, You can use PowerShell to create a SharePoint alert for a group.
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#Variables to create group alert
$WebURL="http://intranet.crescent.com/sites/sales/"
$GroupName="Sales Auditors"
$ListName="Documents"
#Get the objects
$Web = Get-SPWeb $WebURL
$Group = $web.Groups[$GroupName]
$List = $web.Lists[$ListName]
#Loop throgh each user in the group and create new alert
foreach ($user in $group.Users)
{
#sharepoint set alert to group
$alert = $user.Alerts.Add()
$alert.Title = "New Sales Proposal Alert"
$alert.AlertType = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPAlertType]::List
$alert.List = $List
$alert.DeliveryChannels = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPAlertDeliveryChannels]::Email
$alert.EventType = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEventType]::Add
$alert.AlertFrequency = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPAlertFrequency]::Immediate
$alert.Update()
}
Write-host "Alerts created for all users in the group:"$GroupName
$web.Dispose()
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