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Microsoft Authenticator
How-To

How to Setup MFA for Microsoft 365

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.

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New Outlook
How-To

How To Add a Shared Calendar to the New Outlook

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.

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New Outlook
How-To

How To Schedule and Snooze Your Emails with the New Outlook

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.

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New Outlook
How-To

How To Locate Shared Mailboxes in New Outlook

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!

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Outlook
How-To

How To Set Your Default Font in Outlook

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.

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Teams Phone
Microsoft 365 Apps

How To Configure Your Teams Phone Settings

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.

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Outlook
How-To

How To Run an Advanced Search in Outlook Web

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.

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Outlook
How-To

How To Change Outlook Settings: Teams Meetings

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.

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Bookings
How-To

How To Use Personal Bookings In Microsoft 365

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.

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OneDrive
Microsoft 365 Apps

What Do The OneDrive Sync Icons Mean?

The OneDrive app is a great tool to sync your files from OneDrive and SharePoint, but it can occasionally run into problems. Luckily, it’s very good at telling you if you know what to look for! Here, we’ll look at the most commonly seen icons and what they mean.

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