How to disable Notifications from SysTray icons via Group Policy Management on multi-user domain computers?

JE_BuffaloIT 0 Reputation points
2024-07-17T17:50:04.5766667+00:00

Hi, I'm looking to disable Toast Notifications and hide systray icons on a few presentation computers on our domain that are used by multiple users. I believe I need to create a GPO to change the configuration at the computer level instead of the user level since multiple users use each computer. I don't want to set it as a user policy because we want users to have notifications on their main computers. Is there a way to do this via GPO? Thanks

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  1. Ian Xue 39,471 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2024-07-19T02:46:27.11+00:00

    Hi JE_BuffaloIT,

    Thanks for your post. Based on my research, there is only User Configurations for disabling the toast notification and hiding systray, you can use the following group policy.

    For disabling the toast notification,

    User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar->In right-side pane, double-click on "Disable showing balloon notifications as toasts" option and set it to Enabled.

    For hiding systray,

    User Configuration-> Administrative Templates-> Start Menu and Taskbar ->In right-side pane, double-click on “Hide the notification area” option and set it to Enabled.

    Best Regards,

    Ian Xue


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