Microsoft Teams - How to manage which notifications you receive

Chat and channel notifications

Customize chat and channel notifications to your personal work style.

  1. Select Settings and more > Settings in Teams.
  2. Go to Notifications and activity > Chats and channels.
  3. Next to each notification type, select the dropdown menu to choose where you want the notifications to appear or select Off to turn that notification type off.

 

Meeting notifications

Easily configure how notifications are shown for meetings about to start, and meeting chats.

  1. Select Settings and more > Settings in Teams.
  2. Go to Notifications and activity > Meetings.
    1. Meeting start notifications can be turned on or off using the toggle.
    2. Choose to Show meeting join bar.
    3. Select your preference in the Meeting chat notifications for meetings I’ve accepted dropdown menu. This setting is on by default.
    4. Select your preference in the Meeting chat notifications for meetings marked as tentative or no response dropdown menu. This is set to Mute until I join or send a message by default.
    5. Turn on or off Meet now start notifications.

 

Calendar notifications

Manage your calendar notifications to customize when you're alerted about meeting invites, updates, cancellations, and when meetings you organized have been forwarded to others.

  1. Select Settings and more > Settings in Teams.
  2. Go to Notifications and activity > Calendar.
  3. Next to each notification type, select the dropdown menu to choose where you want to see the notifications, or select Off to turn them off.

 

Presence notifications

Receive notifications that update you about your co-workers' statuses. See when people you work with are available or offline. 

  1. Select Settings and more > Settings in Teams.
  2. Go to Notifications and activity > Presence.
  3. Select Manage notifications, then enter the name or names of the contacts you want to keep track of.
    1. Select the correct contact(s) from the list.
    2. You'll see those contacts appear below the text box. To stop tracking their status, select Turn off next to their name.

 

Activity notifications

  1. Select Activity in Teams.
  2. Select More options > Notification settings.

 

Activity emails

Set the frequency of summary emails that detail your missed activity or turn them off altogether.

  1. Select Settings and more > Settings in Teams.
  2. Go to Notifications and activity > Missed activity emails.
  3. Choose the frequency you want to receive activity emails from the dropdown menu.

 

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