Suppress E-Mail Notification When Signing Up for New Alerts

Hey All,

Task: I am looking for a solution for suppressing email notification when an alert is created for a user.

History: The reason I need this is that we recently switched from AAM to FQDN and the users alerts that were created when the AAM was in place are not being received by users. We have tried running a custom PowerShell script and the Invoke-AlertFixup commandlet. Both ran successfully, but had no effect.

So now I am working on a script that will delete alerts with the old domain name and recreate them under the new domain. Everything is working... almost. The old alerts are removed and duplicates are created with the new URL. The problem is that when the new alert is created, nine notifications are sent to the user letting them know a single alert was created for them. When an alert is triggered though, they only receive the one e-mail notification that they should.

My hope is to find a way to suppress this initial notification that an alert was created. I know this is a configuration for "Task" lists, but I can find no way to do this in other lists or document libraries. Is there a configuration that can be enabled/disabled either in the UI or through PowerShell for this?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

J.