What's the link you used to sign up for the notification?

Hi,

View - Patch Management - Tasks - Notification Policies - Global - "New Software Bulletin Available"

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I've never seen this work either within my site or anyone elses.

Regards Steve

It didn't work for me, so I hacked it a bit. It still doesn't work.... 

Guess I should take another  on a fresh install to see why it wasn't working!  ;-)

Kind Regards,
Ian./

In all my setups of Patch 6, I don't think I've ever seen this notification policy return an email.

I"ve always subscribed to Altiris KB21897 (for v6) and the new Altiris KB46252 (for v7)  to get that notification.

FYI: I had to bump my TimeValue parameter all the way up to 96 hours in order to get an e-mail from that "Test Notification Policy" button.  However, have yet to confirm whether the policy will automatically fire off an e-mail to me the next time MS releases updates.  Figured was good time to test because Patch Mgmt didn't show MS10-002 yesterday but did today although I got no message with my TimeValue previously at 72 hours.

I'm thinking my TimeValue could be a bit smaller since my pmimport occurs AFTER my new bulletin check but what still isn't clear to me is why I have to put in such a large value when the patch was released just the day before?  You'd think 24 to 48 hours should cover it but even at 72 hours, I never got an e-mail alert.  Luckily this issue isn't critical where jharings' comment on subscribing to the appropriate Altiris KB is actually a good suggestion.
 

FYI: After setting my TimeValue parameter to "96", I got 2 automatic e-mail messages (1/day) for MS10-002.  Just can't seem to make any sense here as to what's happening.