We can have Badge Images (also know as App Logo Override Images), Hero Images and Inline Images. More information on how to style your Toasts can be found at Images In the PowerShell script this post, we are using another binding template called ToastGeneric.

So you can see we can add different properties into our XML to style the Toast the way we want it to look. Here is an example of what a basic, text only, Toast XML might look like using the Toast Template Type ToastText02 Do we want images, titles, text, buttons etc. In the XML we specify the various visual elements and actionable elements within our Toast. The Toast itself is built and styled from from an XML. Learn more about the different Toast Template Types at They can range from simple text notifications to text with images. Toasts can be delivered from a variety of predefined Toast Template types. Toast Notifications are flexible in their appearance and actionable states. Could I create my own Toast Notifications, on the fly, and deliver them using ConfigMgr – and the answer is yes! Feeling Toastie Email Down / Phones Down / Coffee Machine DownĪnd so the challenge began. One piece of software in our portfolio was used to send notifications to our user base to inform them of issues that affected the whole company e.g. Rewind a whole bunch of months and we were discussing how we cold reduce our software portfolio to make management easier and bring down our running costs at the same time. If you are reading this post, you will have seen some Toast Notifications and thought “Cool, can I do that?” and that is where my journey started.

UWP and Desktop Apps can leverage the ToastNotification and ToastNotificationManager Class from the Windows.UI.Notifications Namespace to create ToastNotifier objects to send a Toast Notification similar to below Background

If you have moved your workload to Intune for Windows Update Policies you would have encountered them for sure. You may have seen that many apps these days use “Toast Notifications” to inform the user of an event or to ask them to do something.

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