In Outlook, admin privileges can unlock many features and controlling your notifications is one of them.

In this article, Ive explained how to enable & disable incident notifications for admins in Outlook correctly.

What are Incident Notifications for Admins in Outlook?

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When Incident Notification is enabled, a pane will open automatically on the right side of the adminsOutlookapp.

Outlook administrators can now get alerts divided by theLatest notificationsandPrevious notificationsto identify newer information.

These notifications alsoinclude iconsso the admins can easilydetermine solved and unsolved issues.

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You also needadministrative rightsto turn on incident notifications, or else the feature wont be available for you.

Along with Incident Notifications, you could alsoenable notification sound in Outlook.

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Moreover, you cancontrol your notificationsfrom theOffice 365 admin center, which Ive described in the next section.

Now it’s possible for you to respond instantly whenever an event affects the Office app users.

Below Ive provided the steps to turn on Microsoft 365 admin notifications on your selected email addresses.

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But if you dont want distractions, you might always turn them off.

To do that, openAdvanced Optionsin Outlook and checkDisable incident notifications.

Then follow the steps below to deactivate incident notifications.

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Heres the process to disable incident notifications for admins in Outlook:

Now youll stop getting alerts in Outlook.

Check our latest post onturn off administrator permission in Outlook.

FAQs

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