Change notification delay setting in TFS 2010
As you probably noticed or know already, TFS 2010 by default delays all notifications (aka project alerts) by 2 minutes (as explained here).
You can change the default by setting the following key in the TFS registry (not the Windows Registry on the TFS server) to the desired number of seconds (0 = no delay, 120 = the default of 120 seconds):
/Service/Integration/Settings/NotificationJobDelay = #seconds
To change the value (in this example to 30) in the TFS registry you can use this PowerShell script or the following command line:
tfsreg.exe /server:https://yourtfs:8080/tfs /path:/Service/Integration/Settings/NotificationJobDelay /value:30
If you don't specify the value parameter, it will print out the current value.
Download the tool from here:
- For Team Explorer 2010: TfsReg.exe (.ZIP, 3,53 KB)
- For Team Explorer 2012: TfsReg.exe (.ZIP, 3,56 KB)
Note: You need to restart the IIS app pool that TFS uses, for this change to take effect.
Prerequisite: This tool requires Team Explorer 2010/2012 to be installed.
(Thanks to Chris Sidi for his excellent blog post on this.)