Multi-Factor Authentication is (or should be) enabled by default for your Microsoft 365 account, and provides an important additional layer of protection on your account. In this short post we guide you through the steps to set it up.
The “New Outlook” for Windows introduces a range of exciting features, intelligent assistance capabilities, and a sleek, simplified design to enhance your email and calendar experience. With these updates, you can tailor the app to fit your unique style and boost your productivity like never before.
Microsoft’s New Outlook is a modern, streamlined version of the popular email client, designed to enhance productivity and provide users with a more experience. Featuring a sleek interface and improved functionality, New Outlook integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft 365 applications.
The New Outlook is being rolled out and Microsoft have made some changes to the way you find and view your shared mailboxes. This short How To guide will show you how to locate these shared mailboxes, ensuring you don’t miss those important emails!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Web browsers make it convenient to save passwords for easier online access. However, there may be times when you want to remove saved passwords for security or privacy reasons, or perhaps simply because they have expired. This guide will show you how to do that in three popular web browsers: Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. By following these steps, you can keep your sensitive information secure and up to date.
Outlook is a popular email client developed by Microsoft, known for its robust features and user-friendly interface. By setting Outlook as your default mail application, you can enjoy a seamless email experience and easily manage your emails, contacts, and calendar events.
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