I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question... :-)
We are using NS alongside of an existing CRM system that was built
in-house.  We have our own Customer table that has a CustomerId, Email, and
an active/inactive flag (among other things).  To integrate w/ NS, we have

In looking at notification services there is an example in the SQL 2005 April
CTP BOL that shows how to create a stored procedure custom protocol. The only
thing missing is the code to add to the config and adf.
Can someone provide and example for this?

The NS applicatipon does not work on SQL2005 (Win XP Server). My ASP.NET
application crashes with the message:
" The registry entries for the specified instance of Notification Services
could not be found."

I have to sent the notification at the specified TimeSpan before the
specified Time. Example:
Unit Train Estimated arrival time notification.
Unit Train will arrive to the destination at the specific time (stored in

I have added one more named instance to my SQL Server and tried to use NS on
it. I can not start the service. The "net use start ...." command shows the
following message:
Could not start the NS$ELSInstance service on Local Computer.

 I am trying to use notification services to generate notifications to any
subscribers. By that I mean, a stock subscriber can subscribe for email if
stock price for stock symbol goes above some value, an order handling person
can subscribe for SMS if inventory level goes below ...

Whenever I am updating the xslts used in the notification, I need to restart
the notification service instance to make the change into effect.
Is there any other way?
Can I configure the system to take the updated xslts automatically?

I just wanted to know if SQL-NS is Daylight Savings time aware.  W
have a recurring schedule we want to run every 2 hours on the eve
hour.  The schedule started to run at odd hours recently bec. of th
change in time

The NS applicatipon works fine on the SQL Server 2000 (installed on Win2000).
I have moved it now on SQL2005 (Win XP Server). My ASP.NET application
statred to crash with the message:
" The registry entries for the specified instance of Notification Services

I have started with using Events table (EventRule selects the data from
table names EventName_Events). As a result every time when a event occurs I
receive the notification + notifications about ALL the events already handled
early.

I am trying to see if SQLNS will be able to help with an application I was
going to write from scratch.  The purpose of the application, called the
Scheduling Component (SC), is to enable a wide variety of processes to be
scheduled to run automatically for our product suite.  The ...

i have a sharepoint portal server installed on windows 2003 server. SQL
server is connected to the sharepoint server. it seems to be not working. i
started the MSSQL$RTC service however i am not able to start sqlagent$rtc
service, which i believe is the cause of the problem.

When I use xslt for formatting the notification, I am facing some issues
with the variables inside xslt.I have a variable which is declared with
global scope. I am assigning a value to this variable within a TABLE(
<TABLE>..</TABLE>) and I am not able  to use the value of this ...

I need to prepare the reports in excel sheet and send it as part of
notification message.
As the current notification (Built in SMTP Delivery protocol) doesn't
support attachments, I am creating a cursom delivery protocol (implementing

Has anyone here used Notification Services to schedule Reporting Services
subscriptions?
Just wondering if it's even possible or worthwhile to do so.
Thanks!