<p>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...</p>

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

<p>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?</p>

[{'answer_id': 38004, 'author': 'Vagnerr', 'author_id': 3720, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3720', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You could try.</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.woodwardweb.com/gadgets/000434.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Brian the build bunny</a></p>\n\n<p>:-)</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 38008, 'author': 'Ian Nelson', 'author_id': 2084, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2084', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Set up an email alias for the team on the mail server, and enter this when subscribing to the mail.</p>\n\n<p>Try the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/tfseventsubscription" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Team Foundation Server Event Subscription Tool</a>.\nThis allows you to send emails to any address when any TFS event occurs.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48473, 'author': 'fuzzbone', 'author_id': 5027, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5027', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>The July release of <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs2008/bb980963.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TFS 2008 PowerTools</a> adds an "Alert Editor" to Team Explorer.  Adding Alerts is a breeze.  It has a query tool similar to the Query tool.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 70033, 'author': 'granth', 'author_id': 11210, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11210', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>The Team Build Tray Notification tool what is included in the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1D16-4DF1-8A3D-EF1AD4F4BBAB&amp;displaylang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TFS 2008 Power Tools</a> is very useful for this.</p>\n\n<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fWgpS.png" alt="Build Notification Tray tool" title="Build Break Notification"></p>\n\n<p>See <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2007/09/21/build-notification-tray-applet-power-tool-for-tfs-2008.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Buck Hodges\' blog for screenshots and more information</a>.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1945029, 'author': 'Jack', 'author_id': 167748, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/167748', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>In my mind, a open source project named 'Web Deployment Projects' can do this. your can search for it.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 1945278, 'author': 'peSHIr', 'author_id': 50846, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/50846', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I generally like the <a href="http://raquila.com/software/team-foundation-server-build-notification-tray/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TFS Build Status Tray</a> by Rob Aquila. Be sure to get the 1.0.1 Beta, as this lets you easily specify the projects to watch using a bit of GUI and also has a notify icon that changes color, so you only need to open the actual build status list when the icon turns red. The 1.0 version had a fixed icon, and only notify toasts in the corner of your screen.</p>\n\n<p>There is also <a href="http://raquila.com/software/team-foundation-server-build-notification-screen/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a version of the same tool</a> that is meant to be shown full screen on a wall mounted display for instance.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 4205299, 'author': 'Daniel Morritt', 'author_id': 505667, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/505667', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>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.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 7179981, 'author': 'Lee Richardson', 'author_id': 40783, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/40783', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="http://www.woodwardweb.com/gadgets/000434.html" rel="nofollow">Brian the Build bunny</a> is nice but the Nabaztagtag WiFi Rabbit bunny is pretty expensive and is currently out of stock.  </p>\n\n<p>The Team Build Tray Notification that comes with TFS is ok, but:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>It\'s damn slow and polling is not configurable</li>\n<li>It\'s too easy to miss the build being broken for projects you care about</li>\n<li>Doesn\'t support different actions for different projects (e.g. show a modal dialog for project #1, but just show a short tray alert for project #2)</li>\n<li>Doesn\'t support different triggers for different people (e.g. show notifications for just me on project #1 or anyone on project #2)</li>\n<li>No information on what broke the build (e.g. compiler error, unit test, integration test)</li>\n<li>No audible notification if system\'s on mute</li>\n<li>No last build times</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>So there\'s an open source project on Google Code that runs in the tray that\'s available on Google Code: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/siren-of-shame/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/siren-of-shame/</a>. That project can work independently but it\'s designed to work with a <a href="http://www.sirenofshame.com/" rel="nofollow">USB Siren</a> that is available for sale.</p>\n'}]
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