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jbandy
Jun 10, 2022Copper Contributor
Disable all calendar notifications
I've got a real weird one here.
Customer wants to disable all calendar notifications / alerts for the whole company. They dont want to receive any kind of calendar notification on outlook desktop client, iphone, android, etc.
Customer is exchange 2016 on prem only.
There a way to do this?
- Do you mean reminders for upcoming events? Afaik there is no way to turn those off globally, as the reminder is configured for each event/meeting request individually. You can disable the "Default reminders" option in Outlook on the desktop, which I suppose you can also control via GPOs. For OWA, you can toggle the RemindersEnabled, ReminderSoundEnabled and DefaultReminderTime settings via Set-MailboxCalendarConfiguration. For mobiles, you'll likely have to rely on the OS notification controls, Outlook mobile does allow for some granularity.
- jbandyCopper Contributor
Think I might have found a way to do this after all based on this article:
https://darawtechie.com/2017/07/16/no-reminders/
Ran the command through a powershell script that targets all mailboxes:
ForEach ($Mailbox in (Get-Mailbox -RecipientTypeDetails UserMailbox))
{ Set-MailboxCalendarConfiguration -Identity $Mailbox -RemindersEnabled:$false -DefaultReminderTime 00:00:00 }
- That only affects OWA though, no other clients.