# HowTo: Subscribe to Failed TFS Builds

DevFeed: [HowTo: Subscribe to Failed TFS Builds](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/howto-subscribe-to-failed-tfs-builds-21175.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://juri.dev/blog/2012/11/howto-subscribe-to-failed-tfs-builds/>)

Published: 2012-11-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Juri Strumpflohner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/juri-strumpflohner.md>)

Topics: [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>)

Tags: [bugs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bugs.md>), [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [email](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/email.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [notifications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/notifications.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to receive notifications for failed Team Foundation Server builds using the Build Notification Tool or TFS Alerts. It notes limitations in the notification tool and describes creating a custom alert definition through the Alerts Explorer in Visual Studio 2010.

## Source excerpt

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