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Outlook (new) broken notifications

Recently I've had to switch to the "Outlook (new)" app. I only want to use this as a calendar, like I used to be able to with the built in "Calendar" app. I have added the relevant ...
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Outlook new email notification banner - can't figure out how to silence

I appreciate how many alerts I can turn off, but there's one I still can't figure out. I use the Focused folder, which is a great help. But if another email arrives, I get a notification like the one ...
Ron Lembke's user avatar
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Can I make Outlook toast notifications smaller in Windows 10?

I disabled Windows 10 notifications originally, but I find that I miss the Outlook 'new mail' notifications that I used back when I ran Windows 7, so I have re-enabled notifications for Outlook only. ...
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How do I display an alert window using a rule in Outlook when I receive a reply to a Flagged Email?

I have learned to flag emails in Outlook, to keep track of the important ones. When I receive a reply to one of these emails, it would be nice if a rule would display an alert on my screen, so that I'...
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How do I set the volume on a Windows app that makes intermittent sound?

I am getting blasted by email notifications from MS Outlook. Note that I have Windows system sounds set to 'None', so it is not the "system" email notification that I am hearing. It is ...
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Outlook notifications configuration

My IT department recently pushed out a new version of Outlook 16 for Microsoft 365, running on Windows 10 1809. Before the new version was deployed, clicking on new email alerts would reliably open ...
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How to set up a scheduled reminder notification for all my company's PC's?

Recently due to the pandemic crisis there is a need to be more conscious and responsible. I'm looking for a way to send a scheduled notification for all my company PC's that informs them at a specific ...
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Open Outlook incoming messages shown as Windows notification

I often get Windows notification at the bottom right of my screen. Is there a possibility to automatically open notifications that are for Outlook messages? Would it also be possible to automatically ...
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Shortcut to activate/deactivate Outlook new mail notifications

As I'm syncing calendars from/to O365/GSuite, I use a tool called gSyncit which works perfectly fine and lets run Outlook in background mode to do the sync. Normally I want Outlook new mail ...
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Outlook 365: Play notification sound only once every X minutes

Currently I have my settings to display a notification and play a sound whenever I receive a new email. However, I often, like many others, receive multiple emails at the same time or within a few ...
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Outlook desktop notifications not showing up

The pop-up desktop notification and sound for Outlook have stopped showing up on one of my computers. Desktop alerts and sounds are enabled in Outlook settings, notification from Outlook are enabled ...
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Turn off Outlook app notifications with GPO

I've been trying to create a GPO that would turn off Outlook 365 notifications that appear on the desktop. I've tried the Office 2016/365 Administrative Templates but they don't stop the ...
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How do I disable notifications in Outlook?

I've found that Outlook notifications are quite a pain and I've tried to disable them but I can't find a setting anywhere. Does anyone know how to disable the calendar notifications (separate windows ...
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Outlook 2016 notification only with new unread email, not old unread emails?

Currently outlook 2016 always show the yellow mail notification icon. In my mailbox, I have a bunch of read and unread emails. The notification icon seems to always show due to the existing unread ...
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MS Outlook email alert

I have all MS Outlook notifications disabled (see screenshot below) in order to not get distracted at work. However I would like to receive a notification if an email meets certain criteria (based on ...
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Hubspot CRM notifications - how to avoid people seeing when I read a mail

Our sales people use Hubspot CRM. I don’t. Maybe there is an account for me but I have never logged in as far as I remember. I use Outlook Mail Client on both phone and laptop for accessing my email....
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Keep Outlook calendar attachments up to date without spamming users with e-mails

I work in a new company and they use Outlook and we have many workshops with many participants and to effectively work in those meetings we need to prepare and update materials several times and ...
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Is there a way to delay the Outlook "new email" Desktop Alert notification?

One of our users has Desktop Notifications enabled in Outlook 2010 so that she sees a popup alert in the lower-right corner of her screen whenever a new email comes in: This user gets a lot of Spam, ...
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How to get email notification in the Windows 8.1 lock screen and Start menu when using Outlook?

I'm using Outlook 2013 on Windows 8.1, and I'd like to get email notifications on the Windows lock screen and Start menu just like when using the Mail app; however, it looks like Outlook is unable to ...
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Outlook 2013 - Notification Bar "not most recent mail" missing

I'm using Outlook 2013 (german) in an enterprise environment. When you try to answer to an email, which was answered in the meantime, Outlook shows a notification bar. It's telling you, that you're ...
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How to make Outlook keep notification in systray until the messages are read?

Currently Outlook works like this: I get new email Outlook shows notification in systray after 5-10 seconds notification is removed How to make it as simple condition: unread messages in inbox -- ...
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Getting IMAP push notifcations to work in Outlook 2013?

Surprisingly I can't find much about this. Basically, in Outlook 2013 (or Windows Live Mail 2012 too), if I have more than one account (an IMAP and exchange, in my case), I don't always get new mail ...
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Outlook desktop alerts don't work while in a full screen RDP window

I have a user running Windows 7 64-bit who's started to use Remote Desktop a lot to remote into our servers. The user is quite important, but he isn't getting his desktop notifications while remoted ...
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Check for new mail without Outlook

Is there an application that will allow me to be notified of new email received via Exchange, without having Outlook started? Basically I want to know when I receive new email without having Outlook ...
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Do not show new mail notifications in Outlook 2010

I don't want Outlook to pop up anything to let me know when a new email has arrived. In the past there used to be an option to turn this off. Where do I find this options in Outlook 2010?
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Outlook end of meeting reminder

Is there a way to make Outlook show a reminder when a meeting is ending? Sometimes I schedule meetings for myself to focus on one specific task for an hour or so, and it would be very useful to be ...
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Notification addon for Outlook 2010

Outlook 2010 will not show notification envelope for IMAP accounts (which is a horrible bug IMO but that's the reality right now), are there any good add-ons that would "fix" this? I'm primarily after ...
Borek Bernard's user avatar
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Get Outlook Reminders While App is Closed

Is it possible to have Outlook remind you of upcoming calendar appointments (and only appointments) while the application itself is not running? If so, how would that be set up?
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Microsoft Outlook 2007's feature in Outlook 2002?

Few months back I used Outlook 2007's and I liked the mail notification feature which displays new mail notifications in the right corner of the desktop and fade out after few seconds. But now using ...
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Synchronize Outlook 2007 with Google Calendar, using default notification setup in GCal for new events?

I've tried several products for synchronizing my Exchange-based Outlook 2007 account calendar with Google Calendar: SyncMyCal OggSync KiGoo Google Calendar Sync Unfortunately, they're all rather ...
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