Disabling direct-push planner mobile notifications

Overview

Because Planner is moving to a new system, which uses a direct-push mechanism, we're adding the ability to turn off these direct-push notifications. Details on this switch are covered in this article. s

1. Direct-Push indicates that the contents of the push notification are being sent directly through Apple's or Google's services to get to the iOS or Android client, respectively. (This is the new system)

2. Push-to-Pull indicates that a string is sent through Apple/Google's services that tell the client how to retrieve the notification from a server controlled by Microsoft, without the actual contents of the notification passing through a third party service. (This is the old system)

Note

The switch only affects push notifications that are being sent through the new system. Any notifications still being sent through the old system are unaffected by the tenant switch.

Note

The effect is not instantaneous. It will take a few minutes after running the command to change the setting.

Prerequisites for making Planner changes in Windows PowerShell

Follow the steps in Prerequisites for making Planner changes in Windows PowerShell to make Planner changes in Windows PowerShell.

Disable direct-push notifications

1. Open PowerShell and run the following command to disable the notifications

   Set-PlannerConfiguration -AllowPlannerMobilePushNotifications $false
   

   Likewise, if you want to re-enable, run the below command

   Set-PlannerConfiguration -AllowPlannerMobilePushNotifications $true
   

   Note

   You'll need to sign in using your Microsoft Entra credentials and use a local PowerShell window (not Azure Cloud Shell).

2. To verify your settings, run:

   Get-PlannerConfiguration
   

   • The AllowPlannerMobilePushNotifications value returned by this command indicates whether the notifications are enabled