Disabling desktop push notifications on Windows laptops

To prevent students from being constantly distracted by notifications on their Windows laptop, these can be disabled. This is easy to do via the Intune admin centre.

In the Intune admin centre, choose:

Select Windows 10 and later as the Platform. Select Settings catalog as the Profile type and click Create at the bottom.

Give the new profile a name, e.g. "No notifications", and click Next at the bottom.

Click + Add settings
Type "notifications" in the search box and click Search.
Scroll down and click Google Google Chrome Content settings. 6 results appear; tick the bottom 2:
✅ Default notification setting
✅ Default notification settinge (User)

Now click Microsoft Edge\Content settings. About 10 results appear; now tick the bottom 4:
✅ Choose whether users can receive customized background images and text, suggestions, notifications, and tips for Microsoft services
✅ Choose whether users can receive customized background images and text, suggestions, notifications, and tips for Microsoft services (User)
✅ Default notification setting
✅ Default notification setting (User)

Now click the cross at the top right of the Search button.

Set all the toggles behind Default notification settings to Enabled and choose Don't allow any site to show desktop notifications in the selection boxes.
Leave the toggles behind Choose wether users can receive... set to Disabled.

Click Next at the bottom and click Next at Scope tags as well

Under "Included groups", click Add groups and select the student group(s).

Click Next, check the settings and click Create

Intune will now distribute this setting to the student accounts. From now on, no desktop notifications or Microsoft Spotlight messages will appear for those accounts.

Updated on: 03/11/2026