Disable turning off Windows 10 notifications

Question

We are using PowerShell to send maintenance desktop notifications to our AD users computers.

The problem is that some more knowledgeable users are turning notification switch off and then they won't recive important information.

Is there a way to force this switch to be turned on either group policy or registry?

Answer 1

Hi,

As far as I know, we can change the notification configuration via registry(as below mentioned), and we can turn off the notification via GP and prevent user from change it. However, it would be difficult to keep the notification configuration on and prevent user from change it via group policy.

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications\ToastEnabled

Note:
Service Windows Push Notifications User Service or system restart is necessary to make the registry change take effect.

As workaround, you may consider of changing the setting to on via script once it is detected that the setting is disabled. As write script based on customer’s requirement is beyond our support scope, we are unable to provide you detail suggestion.

Thank you for your understanding.

Best Regards,
Eve Wang