SharePoint 2007 - WSS 3.0 Alerts

I have encountered an unusual error in my staging environment for my current project (Beta2TR).  We are getting ready to pilot the site to a few users and are creating steps for the users to use to test the functionality.

One of the steps involves creating an alert on a list.  As I was testing this step I got the following error:

For some reason it seems like the alert template associations are broken in the Beta2TR.  By running the following stsadm script the problem is resolved.

stsadm -o updatealerttemplates -url http://servername -filename "C:\Program files\common files\Microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\template\XML\alerttemplates.xml"

This was tough to track down.  I only found 1 resource in the hour or 2 that I researched this.

After running the script, I now get the create alert page I was expecting:

Phew!

Published 11-16-2006 7:19 AM by Dan Attis
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