Perhaps you can take a look of this documentation here and see is it help or not.
-> http://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/administrators/cronjobs

If no, can you provide us with your Cpanel access so we can better have a look?

By the way, please remember to assign your domain to your license to obtain for support in the future. You can do so by accessing your license area at http://stackideas.com/dashboard

I cannot provide cpanel access. I can do a screen share, but that is all.

The security team at my company has turned off FTP access

The documentation is a bit confusing so I cannot tell if the cron link is correct. All i know is that with the upgrade to 5.x (previously set to send notifications on page load), I am getting about 5-6 emails per post which means my clients are too.

May i know which webhosting are you using in your current site?

Perhaps you can try this cron command and see how it goes?

/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://clientonly.americas.nttdata.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron"

the server is on my company's network. there is no hosting company.

May I know is it through SSH setup your cron command?

If yes, you can set similar this cron command and see how it goes?

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://clientonly.americas.nttdata.com/index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&task=cron" >/dev/null 2>&1

After that you have to modify this file -> JoomlaFolder/components/com_easyblog/cron.php

// LINE 18

$host		= 'site.com';



// Replace to

$host		= 'clientonly.americas.nttdata.com';

I would be setting his up in event scheduler on my windows server.

Perhaps you can take a look this few tutorial link first:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/12444-task-scheduler-create-new-task.html
http://www.7tutorials.com/how-create-task-basic-task-wizard

After that you can follow my below instruction setup in Windows scheduler Action configuration page.

STEP 1 :
Set your site name in JoomlaFolder/components/com_easyblog/cron.php

// LINE 18

$host		= 'site.com';



// Replace to

$host		= 'clientonly.americas.nttdata.com';

STEP 2 :
Find one of the program can execute the command (e.g. this is my local php.exe location path)

"C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.3.28\php.exe"

STEP 3 :
this is the add argument (optional): (find your site cron.php path)

-f D:\Website\intranet-test\components\com_easyblog\cron.php

STEP 4 :
Try open command promp then test the command is it setup correctly (make sure that path is follow back on your site.)

php.exe -f D:\Website\intranet-test\components\com_easyblog\cron.php"

Hope this will help.

Please see attached file. I think it errored out?

Hey Larry,

As per our conversation on Skype, I believe your issue is resolved now?