Links in notification / alert emails corrupt after site migration
Filed Under (SharePoint, SharePoint administration) by Boris Gomiunik on 12-02-2009
If you’ve moved the entire site collection by using stsadm –o backup and restore commands, you might notice that the email notifications either might not work or the links in email notifications might still point to the old URL. This can be resolved simply by using the following stsadm command on the destination server:
stsadm -o updatealerttemplates -url http://[portalnamehere] -filename "C:\Program files\common files\Microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\template\XML\alerttemplates.xml"
This fixed my corrupt links and even restored the nice look of the email.
Hi Sara.
I was moving the blog to new server and due to some corrupt entries (duplicates that occured when making first import from blogger all the comments got mixed up. I think I got them back as they should be.
Thanks for notifying me.