Edit other users' alerts for a project in TFS

Question

I am unexpectedly taking over for the previous administrator of our TFS system who left the company rather abruptly. I was made an admin of TFS and on the TFS application s

Answer 1

This worked for me on TFS 2010. basically there's a stored procedure that removes subscriptions in the TFS database.

1. Connect to the TFS machine
2. Run ssms
3. Choose the local machine as the machine to connect to.
4. In the object explorer, look for a database named tfs_yourprojectname.
5. Find the table named tbl_EventSubscription and right click => select top 1000
6. Look at the list of subscription and decide on the id of the one you want to remove
7. Look for the stored procedure named prc_UnsubscribeEvent in the object explorer, right click and select "execute stored procedure". enter the value of the id column in the event subscription table for the alert you would like to remove.