Whats the best way to deliver TFS build status not

Question

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...

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

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

The Team Build Tray Notification tool what is included in the TFS 2008 Power Tools is very useful for this.

See Buck Hodges' blog for screenshots and more information.