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Marianne2285
Copper Contributor
Oct 31, 2023

Number of unread chats etc. not showing on the taskbar icon.

Hi,    In Teams, when you had unseen chat messages, the number of them appeared on the Teams icon in the taskbar. I changed to the New Team and this is not showing. It's annoying because I am missi...
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GlenB
Brass Contributor
Nov 02, 2023

All -

 

Unfortunately, as posted here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-known-issues , Microsoft has for some reason removed the connection between Teams and Windows for notifications. The page specifically says:


What features are changing?

As we improved the client, the experience also improved to align with similar features. Here are some of the changes you see.

Classic TeamsNew Teams

Post level notifications within a channel

Users can no longer opt in or opt out of receiving notifications at a channel post level.

Windows notifications

Teams notifications are now fully served from Teams and all notifications preferences are handled within Teams Settings.

 

I don't know why Microsoft considers this an "improvement", but since fixing this isn't on their roadmap, the only thing we can do is send feedback and complaints to try to get their attention on this.

 

Glen

 

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