Sharepoint alerts not working for AD group members

Question

I have a Sharepoint site that is restricted to users that are part of an Active Directory group (by creating a Sharepoint group called “site users” and adding the AD group to that).

Those users are able to create alerts (to which they receive an email confirmation), but they don’t receive any email alerts when things change on the site. However, if I add the users explicitly to the “site users” sharepoint group, they receive the email alerts as expected.

I’ve tried a few things found on the internet but to no avail. Any ideas why that might be happening?

Answer 1

Is the AD group mail enabled?

http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/10/26/sending-alerts-to-groups-in-sharepoint-2007/

Answer 2

I do not think it is easy to do that. Take a look at this as a reference. Send Alert/Reminder emails to user/group field columns, AD users/groups, email addresses.

Answer 3

I had a similar problem with Workflows where the email wasn't being recieved by AD distribution groups. I found this answer online, it may be the same problem you are seeing.

If you are integrating your MOSS with Exchange server 2007 to send out-going email then please try the following steps to fix your problem:
1. Go to Exchange Management Console -> Recipient Configuration -> Distribution group.
2. Right-click on the problem group and choose properties.
3. On the Mail Flow Settings tab, double click on Message Delivery Restrictions.
4. Uncheck the check box "Require that all senders are authenticated".

The link to where i found this are: Social.technet.microsoft