Email signatures are important and have a number of purposes. A well designed signature can be a real benefit to your company brand. They also provide all your contact details, can be used to help with marketing campaigns, and if you’re a business, provide important required information about your company registration. Here’s some guidance on adding signatures in Outlook.
In Outlook, the Conflicts folder is like a record of problems when your emails don’t sync well with the mail server. If there’s trouble syncing, you might end up with extra copies of the same email. These issues get listed in the Sync Issues folder. You wouldn’t often need to look in this folder, but over time it can get quite big, so you might occasionally need to see it to empty some space.
We all know that Wi-Fi can be much more convenient for your office setup than connecting everything via cable, and as Wi-Fi speeds and connectivity get better, more offices are switching to wireless. However, many people have concerns that wireless is less reliable than cabled, and they worry that they will struggle with weak signals or frequent disconnections. This blog will provide you with all the knowledge you need to get the best wireless experience and keep you at your desk rather than under it, fiddling with cables.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is here and in general release. This post is a summary (not by Copilot, but by us!) of some introductory documentation from Microsoft Learn on what it is, how it works, and how you can incorporate it into your Microsoft 365 experience.
If you find yourself wanting to change the default font for your Microsoft Outlook emails or perhaps want to unify the style as a part of a broader branding effort, there is a quick way to do it.
Small businesses are just as vulnerable – if not more so – as larger organisations to cyberattacks, data breaches, and other IT-related issues (including simply poorly maintained equipment) that can compromise their operations, reputation, and profitability. They also need an occasional helping hand with some of the more everyday helpdesk issues that arise, be they problems, or simply helping to get new staff set up on the systems.
Over the last 2 years AI has taken the tech world by storm, and for good reason. With the release of AI models such as DALL-E and ChatGPT, we have seen what AI is truly capable of and this is just the beginning.
Microsoft is keen to utilise this breakthrough in technology and is introducing a seamless integration of popular AI features into Windows itself. No more creating accounts on various platforms, or even downloading large models manually and using funky command lines (looking at you Stable Diffusion), it will all be at your fingertips within Windows.
Before the cloud, when businesses were primarily working from an office, they knew where their information was, how people could access it, how it was backed up and how it was protected. Now since we’re ever increasingly working in the cloud and from multiple remote locations, it’s less clear. This can cause all sorts of problems and headaches for businesses, including a heightened risk of becoming the victim of fraud through to non-compliance with your legal and regulatory obligations.
Using browser profiles is extremely useful. It allows you to sign in on multiple devices and get the same bookmarks, passwords, and history across your devices. BUT, you should never use the same profile for work that you use for your personal browsing, and for good reason.
If you use Teams for your phone system, you get quite a lot of control over your own account to set up things like voicemail and forwarding. This is particularly useful if you are going on leave and want to either set all your calls to go to voicemail or redirect them to someone else. You can customise your voicemail greeting in much the same way as you set an Out Of Office auto reply on your emails.
Keeping the metadata of your documents on SharePoint up to date is a great way to keep projects organised. It can be really frustrating when you are trying to edit this data, but are unable to, due to the file being currently locked for shared use. This can happen when someone else has the document open or SharePoint thinks you still have the document open by mistake after you have closed it.
If you’ve ever struggled with your mailbox storage filling up, this guide is here to assist you. We’ll provide you with easy steps and tips to declutter your Outlook, manage attachments, and create more space. By following our easy-to-understand instructions, you’ll be able to optimise your Outlook experience and enjoy a cleaner, more organized mailbox.
If you need to search for emails, Outlook is pretty good, but it has its limits. Not least of all, it only goes back so far. When you search in Outlook desktop it’s looking through the emails that it has downloaded and cached on your computer, which is usually no more than 2 years worth, maybe less. If you need to search further back, you’ll need to get into the webmail version, which will display all results from your mailbox.
Have you noticed that every time you create a meeting in Outlook and invite someone else it always creates a Teams meeting as well? This can be 1) useful if you use Teams a lot, 2) a bit annoying if you don’t, it’s just a reminder or an in-person meeting or 3) inconvenient if you use Zoom or other meeting plugins because Teams gets primacy and attendees may join the wrong meeting.
Everyone has their own preferred browser, but if that’s not Edge then Outlook may have started opening links in emails in Edge regardless of your preferred choice. Setting another browser as default does not override this behaviour.
Choosing the right monitor for your PC, especially if you have multiple screens, can be problematic because unfortunately not all PCs and Monitors have the same port options. Some types of ports come in different sizes. If you have a multi-screen setup you might have multiple ports, but only 1 port of each of a certain type. Older PCs or laptops might also have ports that not available on newer monitors.
Bookings in Microsoft 365 has had a little update recently. Now, in addition to having your own company bookings page, you can create one just for yourself, allowing you to send out a link to people to book an appointment with you at their convenience but using your own availability.
If you are sending an Office document to someone, you might want to consider removing the meta data from it, particularly if you have collaborated on it with lots of different people. Perhaps it’s a contract template you worked on with your lawyers or something else with sensitive history. Meta data contains all of the details about when the document was created and who edited it. That might not be information you wish to share!
While email signatures are not (let’s face it) the most glamourous aspect of IT, they are however often overlooked and under-appreciated. Not only can they be great for branding, they can even be used as an important element of your company security. There are also some regulatory reasons to have a signature on company emails too. ‘How can my email signature contribute to my security’ you ask? Good question!
Windows 11 has been out for a while and it’s a great update (in our opinion) to Windows 10. But as with any operating system, getting the most out of it requires a little bit of effort to make it work for you. This could be as simple as changing the colour scheme to make it more pleasing on your eyes, or going further by customising the start menu or Explorer to put the things you use most within a few clicks.
Whether you want to sort emails by date, categorize them, or filter them by sender, changing your view settings can enhance your productivity. With just a few simple steps, you can easily configure your view settings in Outlook to optimize your email workflow and stay organised.