Windows 10: Microsoft outlook 365 desktop notifications

I am trying to work out why I am not receiving notifications from the outlook application. I have turned on notifications in outlook settings and checked the permissions in windows notifications settings.


Does the outlook app have to remain open in the background to send notifications as it seems to still send them when the application is open in the background?

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Outlook desktop notifications not showing up

The pop-up desktop notification and sound for Outlook have stopped showing up on one of my computers. Desktop alerts and sounds are enabled in Outlook settings, notification from Outlook are enabled in Win10 notifications settings, new emails go to the inbox, and I'm not using quiet hours. Notably, when I first detected this issue, I discovered that Windows 10's notification settings had been disabled for Outlook at some point (AFAIK, I didn't do this). Re-enabling this setting hasn't brought back pop-up alerts. Rebooting had no effect.

System details:

• Windows 10 Enterprise
  
• Outlook Office 365 ProPlus, version 1903 (build 11425.20202 if this means anything)
  

 

iCloud notifications in Outlook (Office 365)

I have office 365 installed and use Office Outlook for all my email, calendars and contacts. Icloud for windows is installed. I share my calendar with my wife's account and vice versa. Everything syncs well (most of the time) but on my wife's computer there are 579 notifications in the icloud section of Outlook. Clicking on "Notifications" just sends the cursor spinning, followed by "Outlook is not responding", and eventually it recovers from this, but still doesn't open or show the notifications. How can I see them or delete them?
When my wife adds a calendar item to her calendar, I get a notification on my iphone, which I "accept" and it adds it to the calendar on my iphone calendar.
I also get a notification in the icloud section of Outlook, and I click and accept it. So it seems one notification at a time is easy to accept and it goes, but 579 seems overload and it just hangs. Refresh does nothing.
Any clues how to delete them all?
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Outlook Notifications appear after a delay

Turning on notification in Outlook does not guarantee Windows 10 will honor them. So, you have to ensure Windows 10 notification settings are set to allow notifications from the application (they may be in the Action Center, but not displayed on the Desktop).

If you already have Outlook configured to display the desktop alert, then follow these steps to configure Windows.

1. In the Action Center (in the bottom right corner, next to your time)
   click on All Settings. An alternative method to open the Settings
   app would be to open the Start Menu and then click on Settings.
   
2. Click on: System.
   
3. From the panel on the left select: Notifications & Actions.
   
4. In the “Show notifications from these apps” section at the bottom,
   click on
   Outlook. (If Outlook isn’t listed, you haven’t received a new message yet so Outlook isn’t registered yet as an app that receives
   notifications. Simply send yourself a test message in that case and
   reopen the Settings app.
   Also note that you must be using Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016 as Outlook 2010 and previous have their own notifications which do not
   integrates with Windows 10)
   
5. Make sure that you have enabled all notification options.
   
6. Close Settings.
   

You may or may not need to restart Outlook.

Source - Not getting New Email Alerts on Windows 10

If this doesn't fix the issue, you may need to perform a repair install of Office.