How-to: Send push notifications from Microsoft Intune

You can now use Microsoft Intune to send (custom) push notifications to mobile devices. This is a welcome feature requested by users for a while.
Currently the notifications are limited to iOS and Android devices.

You can use it in a scenario to inform your users about downtime or to quickly inform them about other stuff.
Microsoft doen’t recommend using it for sensitive communication or urgent messaging.

Requirements

• Microsoft Intune
• Group with users
• Devices must have the Company Portal-app installed
• Google Play services on Android devices.

Limitations

• Notifications are limited to 50 character title and 500 character messages
• Intune doesn’t save your message
• You can send 25 messages per hour.
• Messages are send to users only. Groups can contain devices, but users are targeted.
• Intune attempts to deliver the message up to one hour after the message is send.

Send a Push message with Microsoft Intune

1. First log in to the Azure portal.
2. Go to [Microsoft Intune]
3. Choose [Devices]
4. Choose [Send custom notifications]

Specify the [Title] and [Body] with a custom message

Assign a group with Users. (The group can have devices mixed in it, but i will target users only)

Check the [Summary] and click [Create] to send out the push notification.

You can see the notification is send out successfully.

The end user is presented with the custom notification. In my case it took between 5 and 10 minutes for the push notification to arrive.

Logging / history

At the moment there is no logging or history data available for custom messages.

Thanks again for reading.

If you want to read more you can visit:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/custom-notifications