The ability to mute notifications during meetings will be rolling out to Teams users in the coming weeks. This expands on the ability of Teams users to customize their notifications. It enables the users to turn- off their notifications during meetings, and thereby helping them focus. A user can choose to mute notifications when attending specific meetings or during all their meetings.
The current experience of receiving notifications during meetings is highly distracting and there is no easy way to turn off these notifications making it highly painful for users. This feature will introduce a setting to help the user turn OFF notifications during meetings. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87452.
Users will be able to mute notifications during meetings thereby helping focus during meetings. A user can choose to mute notifications for all meetings or per meeting basis.
When this will happen
We expect this feature to begin Start rolling out in early February and expect the rollout to be completed by mid-March.
How this will affect your organization
This feature will introduce a setting to help the user turn OFF notifications during meetings.
- Global Setting to turn OFF notifications during all meetings – A user can find these settings by clicking on the ellipsis next to their profile picture -> Settings -> Notifications -> Meetings.
- Allow/Mute Notifications through the More actions during a meeting – A user can turn ON/OFF notifications on a per meeting basis through the setting provided in More actions.
Notification Settings
u-bar Settings
What you need to do to prepare
No action required. You may want to update your documentation as needed.
Message ID: MC312489
Published: 08 January 2022
Updated: 13 January 2022
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