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Outlook desktop alerts don't work while in a full screen RDP window

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Mar 15, 20266142 views
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I have a user running Windows 7 64-bit who's started to use Remote Desktop a lot to remote into our servers. The user is quite important, but he isn't getting his desktop notifications while remoted into another PC/server. It works on my PC in a maximised RDP window so I'm wondering if it's either …

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Fix for: Outlook desktop alerts don't work while in a full screen RDP window

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If the user is running RDP on full-screen mode, he can only interact with the window/server he is currently logged into. No outside notifications should be able to interrupt him, and that is done by design. What you can do to get around this, is to …

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