Enabling or Disabling Specific Alert Types
Updated: December 17, 2012
Applies To: Windows Intune December 2012 Release
To focus on the most important alerts in your environment, you may want to disable alert types that are not relevant so that they are not displayed in the Windows Intune administrator console. Or, you can enable specific alert types that are important in your environment and that are not enabled by default.
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| If an alert type state is changed from enabled to disabled, any currently active alerts of that type will stay in the system, but no new alerts will be triggered. |
To enable or disable alerts of a specific alert type
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Open the Windows Intune administrator console.
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In the workspace shortcuts pane, click the Administration icon.
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In the navigation pane, under Alerts and Notifications , click Alert Types .
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Do one of the following:
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If you know the category of the alert type that you want to enable or disable and you want to search for it, select the category under
Alert Types
.
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If you know the name of the alert type that you want to enable or disable and you want to search for it, type the full or partial name of the alert type in the
Search alert types
box.
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Browse the list of alert types to locate the alert type that you want to enable or disable.
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If you know the category of the alert type that you want to enable or disable and you want to search for it, select the category under
Alert Types
.
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Select the alert type that you want to enable or disable, and then do one of the following:
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On the taskbar, click
Enable
or
Disable
.
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Right-click the alert type and select
Enable
or
Disable
.
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On the taskbar, click
Configure…
. This opens the
Configure Alert Type
configuration page. In
State
, select
Enabled
or
Disabled
, configure other settings as desired, and click
OK
.
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On the taskbar, click
Enable
or
Disable
.

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