Central Setting (GPO) for turning off Focus assist on Clients not working

Question

Anybody knows the best way to turn off focus assist centrally since i am trying to display balloon tips and toast notifications coming from software center. My attempt to disable it via this policy setting Go to the following path:

User configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar > Notifications > Turn off Quiet Hours Policy > set to enable didnt apply it either remained at "priorty only" or "alarms only" after i restart the system. Maybe there is another way via registry or script to handle this?

Answer 1

Hello there,

Normally you can find the Focus Assist GPO at: User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar > Notifications > "Turn off Focus assist" - Enable it to Turn it Off.

Other way would be to propagate a Registry change through GPO to the affected computers. The Registry change should be at:

Path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings

Key: NOC_GLOBAL_SETTING_TOASTS_ENABLED

Value: 0 (Disabled)

Last but not least, Focus Assist can be disabled using Powershell (for example included in a Logon Script) running the next cmdlet:

Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings" -Name "NOC_GLOBAL_SETTING_TOASTS_ENABLED" -Value 0

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