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Outlook Intermittently not Displaying Notifications
My department has a daily Standup meeting led by the CTO of our company. It includes all of our developers, the CEO and myself, the admin. For the last several weeks, we've had a very puzzling issue where Outlook notifications for these meetings do not display for random participants. The problem will affect a handful of users for a few days, and then move on to different participants for another few days, and so on. For the last couple days, it has been my turn not to get notifications.
All my settings are correct, and I'm getting notifications for other meetings in my schedule, just not this one.
- The meeting is set to display a notification 15 minutes before start
- There are no restrictions on notifications in either my Outlook settings, or Windows settings
- My Teams status is set to Available
- Do Not Disturb is set to Off
- Focus Time is also set to Off
- My desktop computer is plugged in, with no option for Battery Saver
- We do not use any Add-Ins with our mail clients
It's embarrassing for me that the devs and C-suite get to start every call asking who didn't get the notification. I don't like that this naturally progresses to a lot of criticism of Microsoft from our Mac-using developers.
I'm unable to find any resources on the web to help me, so here I am.
Can someone please tell me how permanently to remove this topic from the top of our daily meeting agenda?
Thank you.
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I asked my CTO to delete the meeting and recreate it, which appears to have resolved the issue.
No one?
I know the Outlook notification issue for our daily standup has been frustrating and embarrassing—especially since it seems random who misses the alerts. Unfortunately, this seems to be a glitch with Outlook itself, and even when all settings look correct, notifications for this specific meeting can still fail intermittently.
To avoid starting each meeting with this, I suggest we agree to not call out missed notifications anymore. Instead, if someone doesn’t get notified, they can just check the calendar or ask quietly. That way, we keep the focus on the meeting and avoid unnecessary stress or Microsoft bashing.
