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Microsoft Teams: Suppress Annoying Message Pop-ups

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KB ID 0001722

Problem

Wow! Who at Microsoft Teams thought that enabling that by default was a good idea? I was on a large conference call this morning, (about 150 people). Every message to the message feed was spewing onto my screen and making a noise during the meeting!

Thought: Why do ALL developers think it’s a good idea to have pop-up banner massages appear top right of the screen, (where your windows control buttons and things live), why not bottom right?

Anyway, I want them off completely, (if I want to read the messages I’ll open the message feed window!)

Microsoft Teams Notifications

Click your picture/Initials > Settings.

Chat > Edit.

Set as shown > Back to settings.

You may also want to alter, Notifications Section > Custom.

I’ve disabled ‘Banner’ for EVERYTHING and set them to only show in the feed.

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Server 2012 R2 – Disable Lock Screen

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KB ID 0000965 

Problem

Firstly, the lock screen is there for a valid security reason, so I would not advocate doing this on a production network. But on my test network when I’m jumping between multiple servers all the time, it’s annoying to have to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and tap the password in, each time I change console sessions.

Solution

In older versions of Windows you could simply go to the following registry key;

[box]HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPowerPowerSettings7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc998EC4B3A5-6868-48c2-BE75-4F3044BE88A7[/box]

And change the value of the ‘Attributes’ value. But that does not work on Server 2012 R2.

Disable Lock Screen on a Single 2012 R2 Server

1. Windows Key+X > Control Panel > Power Options (switch to small icons if you can’t see it) > Edit your Power Plan > Turn off the display.

2. Change the value to ‘Never’ > Save Changes.

Disable Server 2012 Lock Screen via Group Policy

1. The policy is located at;

[box]Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization > Do not display the lock screen.[/box]

2. Edit and enable the policy.

3. Close the Policy editor, then either reboot the clients, wait a couple of hours, or manually run “gpupdate /force” on them.

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