- On the title bar of the portal site, click Site Settings.
- In the General Settings section, click Manage alerts settings.
- In the User Alerts Management section, click Manage user profiles to go to a page where you can delete or deactivate an individual user's alerts.
- In the Delete All Alerts and Alert Results
section, click Delete all alerts and alert results to remove every alert and alert result stored on the portal site for all users. Click OK to confirm that you want to delete all alerts and alert results for all users.
Important This action cannot be undone.
- In the Delete All Alert Results E-mail Messages
section, click Delete all alert results e-mail messages to remove all alert results e-mail messages waiting to be sent in the alerts notification queue. Click OK to confirm that you want to delete all unsent alert results in the queue.
Important This action cannot be undone.
- In the Alert Quotas section, specify limits for the number of alerts per user, the number of alerts per site, and the number of alert results per site.
- In the Default E-Mail Address for Alert section, you can specify a User Profile field to use as the source of the default e-mail address when a user adds an alert. Select Always use user profile field to prevent users from changing the default e-mail address supplied by the User Profile.
- In the SMTP Server for E-Mail Alerts
section, click Change default e-mail settings to configure SMTP server settings. If an SMTP server is already configured, the name and status are displayed.
Note Only a member of the SharePoint administrators group can configure an SMTP server.
