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Integrate with MacOS notifications

Notifications built into the OS (which all apps I've seen use other than Outlook and now Teams) are more functional and allow for more user control. Most importantly, they honor Do Not Disturb settings, which is critical.

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Sergi Isasi shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
in testing  ·  AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded  · 

We are getting closer, and are still working thru some bugs, but hope to release this as part of a Public Preview pack in early 2021! (Windows 10 released with the December 2020 pack this week)

You can learn more about the new Microsoft Teams Public Preview program here: https://aka.ms/TeamsPublicPreview, and Teams administrators can find documentation to manage which users will see the Public Preview option here: https://aka.ms/TeamsPublicPreviewAdmin

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  • Swen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi Alex,
    thank you for the step-by-step instructions! It works just fine with proxyman, plus I got rid of Charles' nag-pop-up.

    Hi Spencer,
    again, thanks for your additional idea from superuser.com!
    I will speak to my admin and hope that we can make this work, because frankly, I don't like the concept of SSL-Proxying just because @Microsoft hasn't been able to follow basic design rules for MacOS for more than four years now.

  • Roman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi @alex!
    Thanks for the info on the typo. This fixed it for me. I'm not in the public preview but still could enable the feature. 👍

  • Alex commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi Swen, after installing the charles certificate you have to trust it in the macos keychain.
    As an alternative i can recommend proxyman since the setup process there is easier (One click install & trust certificate). Also proxyman runs indefinitely even with the free version.

    Instructions:
    1) Install and open Proxyman
    2) Select "certificate > install certificate on this mac" from the menu and follow the steps
    3) enable https response for teams.microsoft.com
    4) option-click on teams.microsoft.com > tools > scripting
    5) create new script for "https://teams.microsoft.com/package/desktopclient/settings/osx" with the following onResponse function:

    function onResponse(context, url, request, response) {

    // Update Body
    var body = response.body;
    body["settings"]["enableNativeNotification"] = true;
    body["settings"]["enableMacNativeNotification"] = true;
    response.body = body;

    // Done
    return response;
    }

  • Swen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi Spencer,
    thanks for your effort. Unfortunately I am unable to configure Charles (Demo-Version).
    I created an XML file with your XML-code and when I hit Import in the Rewrite Settings window I can select the XML file but nothing happens.
    As an alternative I configured the Rewrite rule manually.
    In Charles I get a lot of x<unknown> list items under https://teams.microsoft.com containing Failure: "SSL handshake failed...certificate..." errors in the communication with teams.microsoft.com.

    I activated SSL Proxying for teams.microsoft.com but didn't change anything there in the Root Certificate section. Do I need to become an expert for Charles or is there just something I forgot? MacOS never asked me to trust Charles' root certificate...

  • Spencer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Just wanted to add my voice to the "The workaround using Charles worked for me" crowd.

    Additionally, I had a bit of trouble getting it to work (just some issues with spacing, etc.) so I thought it would be helpful to someone if I uploaded an export of the rewrite rule that worked for me so that you can just import it into Charles.

    I tried to attach this as a file but it didn't want to play nice; just copy and paste this into an XML document and you should be able to import it into Charles.

    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
    <?charles serialisation-version='2.0' ?>
    <rewriteSet-array>
    <rewriteSet>
    <active>true</active>
    <name>Enable Teams Native Mac Notifications</name>
    <hosts>
    <locationPatterns>
    <locationMatch>
    <location>
    <protocol>https</protocol>
    <host>teams.microsoft.com</host>
    <port>443</port>
    <path>package/desktopclient/settings/osx</path>
    </location>
    <enabled>true</enabled>
    </locationMatch>
    </locationPatterns>
    </hosts>
    <rules>
    <rewriteRule>
    <active>true</active>
    <ruleType>7</ruleType>
    <matchValue>&quot;settings&quot;:{</matchValue>
    <matchHeaderRegex>false</matchHeaderRegex>
    <matchValueRegex>false</matchValueRegex>
    <matchRequest>false</matchRequest>
    <matchResponse>true</matchResponse>
    <newValue>&quot;settings&quot;:{&quot;enableNativeNotification&quot;:true,&quot;enableMacNativeNotification&quot;:true,</newValue>
    <newHeaderRegex>false</newHeaderRegex>
    <newValueRegex>false</newValueRegex>
    <matchWholeValue>false</matchWholeValue>
    <caseSensitive>true</caseSensitive>
    <replaceType>2</replaceType>
    </rewriteRule>
    </rules>
    </rewriteSet>
    </rewriteSet-array>

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    OMG you're right Alex. Thank you for the correction and sorry for the typo, I was getting crazy trying to reproduce it. I fixed the original comment. Also, as an alternative to Charles, it also works with Proxyman :)
    @Roman, I'm curretly using the preview, I haven't tested on any other version, sorry.

  • Alex commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi Roman, Yes it worked for me too. But the settings String is wrong in the comment, but correct in the screenshot. It should by " *NativeNotification" instead of " *NativeNotifications". This is the correct string:

    "settings":{ into "settings":{"enableNativeNotification":true,"enableMacNativeNotification":true,

  • Roman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I tried the proposed workaround with charles. But it did not work. The request was successfully modified but the setting did not show up.
    Do i need to be in the public preview for that? Can anyone confirm that the hack described in the comment from 2021-03-18 works?

  • Alex commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Anonymous please let my buy you a coffee for the proxy workaround! Thank you!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    November 2016. We're pushing almost 5 years that the user base has been asking for this.

    What. A. Joke.

    Microsoft, if I didn't have to use Teams, I absolutely would not. This is brutal.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hey microsoft, please do it soon, it's getting ridiculous.

    For those of you (like me) who are tired of waiting, after digging around a bit, you can force-enable it by rewriting on the fly a https call used by the teams client to sync its settings with the server.
    The steps for me were basically:
    - install Charles Proxy on my mac
    - trust the CA for the proxy to enable HTTPS proxy
    - launch Teams and check that you can see the HTTPS request going to the microsoft server
    - enable the rewrite feature of Charles Proxy
    - you need to rewrite the response of the call at the url: https://teams.microsoft.com:443/package/desktopclient/settings/osx with this: "settings":{ into "settings":{"enableNativeNotification":true,"enableMacNativeNotification":true,
    - then start Teams, go to the settings and you should see the new option

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Will you improve your shifts from month to month and go ahead and shift early 2021 to early 2022?

  • al_x commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Noticed a change today in how you set a status in Teams.

    That... got released ahead of notifications? Oh right okay priorities :/

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