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How to have notifications more prominent and stay open?
- There are two steps you need to do. Initially, the Mac:System Preferences: Notifications tab won't even show Microsoft Teams in the list of Apps. To remedy that you must use the instructions shown on this page. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-your-notifications-style-in-teams-0da93820-93d0-4da3-86b6-fc28d19908e3. Do that, then close and reopen the Mac:System Preferences:Notifications tab and find "Microsoft Teams" in the list. Once you do that, you need to hit the Enable switch and configure them as you want! I just completed those steps and now I have persistent notification just like Slack.
Hope this helps.
The way I see it is that MS Teams is being used in many organizations as a replacement for an internal instant messaging platform. My expectation from such a platform is to give us at least the option to make the pop-ups stay open, espcially "direct messages". I get it that one may be involved in numerous teams, and prominent dialog boxes with all the mentions and update could be annoying, but it would be very useful to make the direct messages a priority in this context. For instance, to have the option to keep open the direct messages' pop-up, and not all other updates.
majedd If you switch to Windows Notifications then notifications from Teams will follow the rules you set for notifications, how long as a pop-up (you can increase the default from 5s to 5 minutes) and after that they remain in Windows notification centre.
In the future I expect to see Teams for Work and School also connect to the Chat list in Windows 11, providing a sort of shortcut into active conversations.
- Thank you Steven Collier for informing me of that specific capability. However, integration with Chat list in Windows 11 sounds promising, and more apt to my requirement.