Microsoft Teams Private Notifications for Windows 10

A Python script that creates a toast message when a new message pops-up in Microsoft Teams. It hides the message preview to prevent others from reading messages on the screen during meetings:

Installation

Download the main-standalone.py script. Make sure you have Python 3.7 or newer installed on your system.

Install the win10toast Python Library from jithurjacob (see his Github)

pip install pypiwin32
pip install win10toast

Create a scheduled task in Windows 10 that uses an "At log on" trigger for your user account. Use the following action:

• Action: Start a program
• Program/script: pythonw
• Add arguments: .\main-standalone.py
• Start in: The location of the script on your local disk. Make sure your user account has access to it.

Run the Task Scheduler task and ask someone to send you a message or have a chat with the Teams Bot.

Requirements

System Requirements

Windows 10 with Python 3.7 or newer installed

Requirements to run the script

pypiwin32
setuptools

To-do

• Adjust the script to run as a Windows Service. Currently the script needs to run under user context for the Toast Messages to work. That's why it needs to be triggered from a Scheduled Task.
• The script is a bit 'quick and dirty' as it gathers the status from the log file. It would be nice to integrate with the Teams Client SDK.

Credits

• win10toast Python Library from jithurjacob (see his GitHub project)