Our URL for our SharePoint site was recently changed. Now the e-mail alerts arepointing to the old URL and not the new URL. Where can this be changed?
You need to download and install the SharePoint Administration Toolkit fromMicrosoft. You can get it here:The download links for the SharePoint Administration Toolkitx64:<www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE&displaylang=en>www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE&displaylang=enx86:<www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx-9F2E-2D47618505F2&displaylang=en>www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx-9F2E-2D47618505F2&displaylang=enAfter installing the toolkit you will have access to a new STSADM commandcalled updateAlert. You can use this on the command line to update alertlinks in a specific site collection. You can read about it here:technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508980.aspx
This needs downloaded on to the server where the SharePoint is being run fromcorrect? I'm a user admin without access to the actually server.
Yes, STSADM has to be run on the SharePoint server itself.