This policy allows you to prevent Windows from displaying notifications to Microsoft account (MSA) and local users in Start (user tile).
Notifications include getting users to: reauthenticate; backup their device; manage cloud storage quotas as well as manage their Microsoft 365 or XBOX subscription.
If you enable this policy setting, Windows won't send account related notifications for local and MSA users to the user tile in Start.
If you disable or don't configure this policy setting, Windows will send account related notifications for local and MSA users to the user tile in Start.
No reboots or service restarts are required for this policy setting to take effect.
This policy setting blocks applications from using the network to send notifications to update tiles, tile badges, toast, or raw notifications. This policy setting turns off the connection between Windows and the Windows Push Notification Service (WNS). This policy setting also stops applications from being able to poll application services to update tiles.
If you enable this policy setting, applications and system features won't be able receive notifications from the network from WNS or via notification polling APIs.
If you enable this policy setting, notifications can still be raised by applications running on the machine via local API calls from within the application.
If you disable or don't configure this policy setting, the client computer will connect to WNS at user login and applications will be allowed to poll for tile notification updates in the background.
No reboots or service restarts are required for this policy setting to take effect.
This policy is designed for zero exhaust. This policy may cause some MDM processes to break. The MDM server uses WNS notifications to send real time tasks to the device. Some example tasks include remote wipe, unenroll, remote find, and mandatory app installation. When this policy is set to disallow WNS, those real time processes will no longer work. Some time-sensitive actions also won't work, such as remote wipe or unenrollment. You would use these time-sensitive actions when the device is stolen or compromised.
To validate the configuration:
Enable this policy.
Restart the computer.
Make sure that you can't receive a notification from an app like Facebook when the app isn't running.
This policy setting turns off notification mirroring.
If you enable this policy setting, notifications from applications and system won't be mirrored to your other devices.
If you disable or don't configure this policy setting, notifications will be mirrored, and can be turned off by the administrator or user.
No reboots or service restarts are required for this policy setting to take effect.
This feature can be turned off by apps that don't want to participate in notification mirroring. This feature can also be turned off by the user in the Cortana settings page.
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