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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Like most of us I spend my working day based around Outlook calendar meetings and entries, I’ve even got birthdays and anniversaries in there. So recently when the notification pop-ups stopped working, it was a potential problem. Occasionally I could hear the notification ‘sound’, but I had to open outlook and change to the notification window to see them. When you are as absent minded as me, that’s a recipe for disaster.
I don’t know if it was a macOS update or a Microsoft Office update that had broken it, (or if I’d done something stupid myself!).
Solution
I tried a few solutions but this is the only one that worked. Click the ‘Apple Icon’ (top left) > System Preferences > Notifications > Scroll down and select Outlook > On your keyboard press the ‘Delete/Backspace’ key, to remove Outlook > Close system preferences.
If Outlook is open close it > Open Outlook > At the notification prompt > Click ‘Allow’.
The problem ceased.
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While working on the vSphere Web Client in Google Chrome, I was unable to ‘Open Console’, the option was on the right click menu, but disappeared and was then greyed out after a second or so.
Essentially this happens because the plug-in has either not been installed, (from the login page) or a pop-up blocker is stopping the plug-in working.
Solution
1. With Chrome there’s an extra hoop to jump though, the plug-in uses NPAPI, and Chrome disabled that beginning with version 42. To enable it open a new tab and navigate to;
This morning my boss asked me “Why every time I open Internet Explorer does it ask me this?”
To which I replied, “I use Chrome so I don’t know, But I’ll find out.”
Solution
A brief internet search returned, just set the “Ask me later to a nice long time”. But that’s still not disabling it. If truth be known its a good thing, i.e. is trying to be helpful and improve your browsing experience. But if you want to kill it all together heres how.
On a single machine
1. When you installed/Updated to IE9 it added some new policy templates, the one controlling IE9 is called inetres.admx
2. That means we can control what IE9 does with a policy, Click Start and in the search/run box type gpedit.msc {enter}. The group Policy Management Window will appear.
3. Navigate to:
[box] Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer [/box]
Locate “Disable add-on performance notifications” and open it.
4. Enable the policy > Apply > OK > Exit the Policy Editor.
In a Windows Domain Environment
Note: On older domains (Server 2003 for example) you will need to download and import the administrative templates to manage these settings via group policy, you can download the template from Microsoft.
1. On your domain controller , Start > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management Console > Either create a new policy and link it to your targeted COMPUTERS or edit an existing one, then navigate to:
[box] Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer [/box]
Locate the setting “Disable add-on performance notifications” and open it.
2. Enable the policy > Apply > OK > Exit the Policy Editor.
3. Then either reboot the clients, wait a couple of hours, or manually run “gpupdate /force” on them.
Remove “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons” via Registry
I got an mailed a question this weekend;
I too want to get rid of the IE9 – Stop “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons” dialog but only having Vista Home Premium, your solution (using gpedit.msc) is not available. Also, I cannot add a Local Users and Groups snap-in to the Microsoft management Console.
How can I get rid of this bloody annoying feature in IE9?
Kind regards
Brian
Answer
1. No Problem, essentially the group policy editor is just changing registry entries anyway, on your machine Start > In the Search/Run box type > Regedit {enter}
2. Navigate to;
[box] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies [/box]
3. Create a NEW KEY called Ext > Within that key create a new DWORD (32 bit) value called DisableAddonLoadTimePerformanceNotifications and set its value to 1.
4. If your machine is 32 bit then you have finished.
