Get alerts from SharePoint 2010 site using web service in powershell

In this blog you will see how to get all the alerts for the current user using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell.

Navigate to the SharePoint site. Go to Site Actions, and then click on Site Settings. In the Site Administration section, click on User Alerts. Select the user from the drop down and then click on Update button. You could be able to view all the alerts for the selected user.

 

Steps Involved:

1. Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell by going to Start | All Programs | SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Run as Administrator).
2. Run the following script.

Powershell Script:

## Get alerts for the current user from the site using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell $uri="http://serverName:10736/sites/ECT2/_vti_bin/Alerts.asmx?wsdl" $credential=Get-Credential ## Web Service Reference - http://Site/_vti_bin/Alerts.asmx $alertsWebServiceReference = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri -Credential $credential $alertInfo=$alertsWebServiceReference.GetAlerts() Write-Host -ForegroundColor Magenta "Alert Information: " Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "CurrentUser: " $alertInfo.CurrentUser Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "AlertWebTitle: " $alertInfo.AlertWebTitle Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "AlertServerName: " $alertInfo.AlertServerName Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "AlertServerType: " $alertInfo.AlertServerType Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "AlertServerUrl: " $alertInfo.AlertServerUrl Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Alerts Number: " $alertInfo.Alerts.Length.ToString() Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Getting all the alerts for the current user......." foreach($alert in $alertInfo.Alerts) { Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Title: " $alert.Title Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "AlertForUrl: " $alert.AlertForUrl Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "---------------------------------------------------------------------" }

Output: