Although every anti-virus administrator dreads the sound of a dozen alerts hitting their smartphone in the middle of the night, alerts are a necessary evil. The trick is to configure an alerts policy that correctly notifies you with actionable information, but does not inundate your administrators with a glut of unnecessary e-mails.
This recipe will walk you through the process of creating a set of SCEP alerts that will only notify you when an administrator's attention is necessary.
To complete this recipe, you will need to have access to a user account that has Full Administrator rights to the SCCM 2012 console. Alerts in SCEP are based on the membership of collections, so if you wish to create an alerts policy for a specific set of computers, it is advisable that you create this collection ahead of time.
Alerts are delivered via e-mail and they require an available Exchange SMTP resource; you will need to know the FQDN for the SMTP server in your environment...