Notification Settings improvements in Microsoft Teams
The Notification Settings in Microsoft Teams have been reorganised to help you understand your options and reduce notifications overwhelm.
Here’s what you need to know to prepare your people for the change.
What is changing?
Today, notifications Settings have been difficult to navigate and understand, resulting in poor choices and too many notifications. When there are too many notifications, they are missed or ignored.
The new notification settings are organised based on activity. They are easier to navigate, and the categories leave room to organise future notifications settings.
Missed email notifications are front and centre. Dial the frequency of email notifications up or down to make you aware of notifications you have missed.
Team and channel notifications are simple, quick choices that set the default notification behaviour for all channels.
Choose All Activity to be highly responsive
Choose mentions and replies to respond when people mention you or replies to your conversations
Or get granular about the way you want Teams to notify you for different types of mentions, replies to conversations, reactions and trending conversations
If a channel is important to you and you have set it to show or pinned it. When you want to be more engaged with a certain channel, set unique notifications on the channel.
Set your notifications for different activities like Chat and Meetings or for people you have tagged for status changes / following.
When will this change happen?
The change appears to be rolling out now to targeted release organisations. Though at the time of recording, we haven't seen a date or a message in the M365 Message Center. I
Who is impacted?
Everyone who uses Microsoft Teams is impacted by this change.
It isn't introducing new functionality.
The impact is low if you are satisfied with your Teams notifications, there's nothing you need to do to prepare for this change.
But the change could have a highly positive impact, if it improves your understanding of notification settings and you make some new choices to suit the way you work
How do I prepare for the change?
Check your Teams notification settings today. When they do change to the new layout, review your settings to see if you can make some smart changes.