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I have installed and configured the Alert Manager in my SharePoint farm, however, alerts for my SharePoint groups do not seem to be working.  Alerts for individuals are working okay.  I have no idea what is wrong.  I am not getting an errors and my alerts never arrive.

We are looking into this issue and should have a patch shortly. I'll post a message to this thread when the updated bits become available. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Another thing I have noticed is an extreme delay (up to 4 and 5 hours) on alert delivery when the default document libraries from a Publishing template as the alert list. The work around I used was to build a secondary document library and then delivery was normal.

Any insight into this? Has anyone there noticed this before?

 Thanks,
Shadowlo

The alert gets delivered via a SharePoint Timer Job named Immediate Alerts. Typically this job is scheduled to run every five minutes. The schedule for this job can be changed using STSADM and the Job-immediate-alerts property.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287693(TechNet.10).aspx

This could cause your problem is your lists reside on two different web applications.

Once the alert has been setup, it does not seem to be sending alerts for daily or weekly. It is only working for immediate alerts. I have tested it using the default alerts and the daily and weekly alert works. Is there a bug in the software?