Click OK.ĭeploy the updated GPO as you normally do. Open the Hide non-critical notifications setting and set it to Enabled. For Windows 10 version 1803 and below, the path would be Windows components > Windows Defender Security Center > Notifications In Group Policy Management Editor, go to Computer configuration and click Administrative templates.Įxpand the tree to Windows components > Windows Security > Notifications. On your Group Policy management machine, open the Group Policy Management Console, right-click the Group Policy Object you want to configure and click Edit. The ADMX/ADML template files for earlier versions of Windows do not include these Group Policy settings.ĭownload the latest Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 10, v2004. Requirement: You must have Windows 10, version 1903 or higher. These notifications can be hidden only by using Group Policy. It can be useful to hide these notifications if you find they're too numerous or you have other status reporting on a larger scale (such as Windows Update for Business reports or Microsoft Configuration Manager reporting). These notifications are the ones that don't require an action from the machine's user. You can hide notifications that describe regular events related to the health and security of the machine. Use Group Policy to hide non-critical notifications You can only use Group Policy to change these settings.

If you set Hide all notifications to Enabled, changing the Hide non-critical notifications setting will have no effect. Hide non-critical notifications, such as regular updates about the number of scans Microsoft Defender Antivirus ran in the past week.There are two levels to hiding notifications: In some cases, it may not be appropriate to show these notifications, for example, if you want to hide regular status updates, or if you want to hide all notifications to the employees in your organization. These include notifications about firewalls, antivirus products, Windows Defender SmartScreen, and others.

The Windows Security app is used by many Windows security features to provide notifications about the health and security of the machine.

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