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Outlook on the web and Outlook.com support desktop notifications, also sometimes called push notifications, and when this feature is turned on, a notification pops up on your device under the Windows system tray, even if the browser is closed. Enabling desktop notifications.
Nov 7, 2023 · Go to General > Notifications and turn on the switch next to Send me desktop notifications. You can also choose which types of notifications you want to receive, such as for messages, events, or reminders.
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- Overview
- What are push notifications?
- How do push notifications work?
- The challenges of push notifications
- Why use Azure Notification Hubs?
- Next steps
Azure Notification Hubs provide an easy-to-use and scaled-out push engine that enables you to send notifications to any platform (iOS, Android, Windows, etc.) from any back-end (cloud or on-premises). Notification Hubs works great for both enterprise and consumer scenarios. Here are a few example scenarios:
•Send breaking news notifications to millions with low latency.
•Send location-based coupons to interested user segments.
•Send event-related notifications to users or groups for media/sports/finance/gaming applications.
•Push promotional contents to applications to engage and market to customers.
•Notify users of enterprise events such as new messages and work items.
Push notifications are a form of app-to-user communication where users of mobile apps are notified of certain desired information, usually in a pop-up or dialog box on a mobile device. Users generally choose to view or dismiss the message; choosing the former opens the mobile application that communicated the notification. Some notifications are silent - delivered behind the scenes for the app to process and decide what to do.
Push notifications are vital for consumer apps in increasing app engagement and usage, and for enterprise apps in communicating up-to-date business information. It's the best app-to-user communication because it is energy-efficient for mobile devices, flexible for the notifications senders, and available when corresponding applications are not active.
For more information on push notifications for a few popular platforms, see the following topics:
•Android
•iOS
•Windows
Push notifications are delivered through platform-specific infrastructures called Platform Notification Systems (PNSes). They offer basic push functionalities to deliver a message to a device with a provided handle, and have no common interface. To send a notification to all customers across the Android, iOS, and Windows versions of an app, the developer must work separately with Apple Push Notification Service (APNS), Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), and Windows Notification Service (WNS).
At a high level, here is how push works:
1.An application wants to receive a notification, so it contacts the PNS for the target platform on which the app is running and requests a unique and temporary push handle. The handle type depends on the system (for example, WNS uses URIs while APNS uses tokens).
2.The client app stores this handle in the app backend or provider.
3.To send a push notification, the app backend contacts the PNS using the handle to target a specific client app.
4.The PNS forwards the notification to the device specified by the handle.
PNSes are powerful. However, they leave much work to the app developer to implement even common push notification scenarios, such as broadcasting push notifications to segmented users.
Sending push notifications requires complex infrastructure that is unrelated to the application's main business logic. Some of the infrastructure challenges are:
•Platform dependency
•The backend requires complex and hard-to-maintain platform-dependent logic to send notifications to devices on various platforms, as PNSes are not unified.
•Scale
•Per PNS guidelines, device tokens must be refreshed on every app launch. The backend deals with a large amount of traffic and database access just to keep the tokens up-to-date. When the number of devices grows to hundreds, thousands, or millions, the cost of creating and maintaining this infrastructure is massive.
Notification Hubs eliminates all complexities associated with sending push notifications on your own from your app backend. Its multi-platform, scaled-out push notification infrastructure reduces push-related coding and simplifies your backend. With Notification Hubs, devices are merely responsible for registering their PNS handles with a hub, while the backend sends messages to users or interest groups, as shown in the following figure:
Notification Hubs is your ready-to-use push engine with the following advantages:
•Cross platforms
•Support for all major push platforms.
•A common interface to push to all platforms in platform-specific or platform-independent formats with no platform-specific work.
•Device handle management in one place.
Get started with creating and using a notification hub by following the Tutorial: Push notifications to mobile applications.
Using the Outlook browser extension, you can, Access your work or personal accounts – Get notified when you have new email, view and triage unread emails, and reply to or delete items in any folder.
Notification Hubs sends notifications to devices running mobile apps. It does not provide email or text message capabilities. Notification Hubs also does not provide an in-browser push notification delivery service out of the box.
- What is the resource structure of Notification Hubs?Azure Notification Hubs has two resource levels: hubs and namespaces. A hub is a single push resource that can hold the cross-platform push informa...
- What is the price model for Notification Hubs?The latest pricing details can be found on the Notification Hubs Pricing page. Notification Hubs is billed at the namespace level. (For the definit...
- What is the Notification Hubs SLA?For Basic and Standard Notification Hubs tiers, properly configured applications can send push notifications or perform registration management ope...
- How do I upgrade or downgrade my hub or namespace to a different tier?Go to the Azure portal > Notification Hubs Namespaces or Notification Hubs. Select the resource you want to update, and go to Pricing Tier. Note th...
- Which server-side platforms do you support?Server SDKs are available for .NET, Java, Node.js, PHP, and Python. Notification Hubs APIs are based on REST interfaces, so you can work directly w...
- Which client platforms do you support?Push notifications are supported for iOS, Android, Windows Universal, Windows Phone, Android China (via Baidu), Xamarin iOS and Android, and Safari...
- How many devices can I support if I send push notifications via Notification Hubs?Refer to the Notification Hubs Pricing page for details on the number of supported devices. If you need support for more than 10 million registered...
- How many push notifications can I send out?Depending on the selected tier, Azure Notification Hubs automatically scales up based on the number of notifications flowing through the system. No...
- How long does it take for sent push notifications to reach my device?In a normal-use scenario, where the incoming load is consistent and even, Azure Notification Hubs can process at least 1 million push notification...
A Desktop Alert is a notification that appears on your desktop when you receive a new email message, a meeting request, or a task request. By default, Desktop Alerts are turned on. The information displayed in a Desktop Alert varies depending on the item that you receive in your Inbox.
Mar 19, 2024 · Web push (or browser push) is a type of notification that customers get on their desktop browsers, or in some cases mobile browsers, on a per-website basis. Azure Notification Hubs now supports browser push for all major browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox.
