(Updated) Windows 10 native notifications in Teams

Updated December 11, 2020: Microsoft is updating the rollout timeline below.

With this update, your users will be able to choose their preferred means of Teams notifications delivery, either via the Teams built-in notification system or via their native OS notification system.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 66742.

When this will happen

• Windows 10 native notifications: mid-December (previously mid-November) through mid-January (previously late November).

How this will affect your organization

Should your users wish to change notifications of Teams messages from the Teams app to the native Windows OS notification system, they can do so in the Teams Notifications settings:

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What you need to do to prepare

This setting is respected across all Windows desktop clients (supported versions) that a user is logged into.