What is Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration and productivity tool that is included with Office 365. With teams, you can chat with individual or groups, hold video meetings, store and share files, and integrate with other applications. This tool is available to faculty, staff, and student employees with an Office 365 account. To use Microsoft team, you […]

How to Book a Meeting with Microsoft Teams

Method 1: Open Microsoft Teams. On the sidebar to the left, click on Meetings. In the bottom left corner, click on the purple button that says Schedule a Meeting. Fill out the title, and add the attendees to the Invite People Be sure to add the room you are trying to book in the Invite […]

How to Send a Message with Microsoft Teams

Open Microsoft Teams. On the sidebar to the left, click on To find new users, use the search bar at the top of the screen. In the top left, click on Contacts to see a list of your contacts from Skype. In order to add new contacts, click on the ellipsis next to your contact […]

How to install Microsoft Teams

Method 1: Go to email.uconn.edu and click Office 365 Faculty/Staff can sign in with their first.last@uconn.edu and NetID password. Student works can sign in with the NetIDWork account and password. Click on the Teams Towards the left bottom of the toolbar, click on the Get App This would initiate the download of the client file […]

Deleting an Address from Outlook’s Autocomplete List

Faculty and staff who use Outlook for email can remove incorrect or outdated email addresses that are suggested by Outlook’s autocomplete tool. Outlook remembers every address you type in a To, Cc, or Bcc field. When you begin typing in these fields, it will makes suggestions based on past entries. This can be problematic if […]

How do I Share Full Details of my Outlook Calendar?

Faculty and staff who have calendars in Outlook can share the full details of their calendar with individuals or groups in the Global Address Book. You may wish to grant this level of access to facilitate scheduling. How to update permission and provide access Open up the Calendar tab in Outlook, and in the left […]

How To Configure Mail Clients using IMAP for Gmail Mailboxes

After reading this article students with mailboxes on Gsuite should be able to configure their Outlook client using IMAP. IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is an email protocol used for retrieving and storing incoming mail sent over SMTP. Open Control Panel and click “E-mail Accounts….”. Click “New” to create a new profile. Select “Manual setup or […]

How to move all {SPAM?} messages to SPAM mail folder in Gmail

You can create a filter in Gmail so that all messages with the {SPAM?} tag automatically move to your Junk mail. Open your Gmail account and click on the gear in the top-right corner. Select Settings Under the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab, click Create a new filter Type {SPAM?} in the subject line and […]

What is phishing? 

Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, social security numbers, and financial information, often for malicious reasons. By leveraging public information, such as email addresses from the University Phonebook, these message can appear legitimate. Although the University’s threat prevention service reduces the threat to our community, it cannot eradicate all phishing. The best way […]

How to send the daily quarantine message to your Junk folder

Messages that are tagged by the Exchange Online Protection (EOP) filtering service as malicious mail are quarantined. Account owners will receive a digest message from quarantine@messaging.microsoft.com once every 24 hours that lists all of the messages quarantined within the past day. Note: Spam quarantine is a temporary storage location for messages that are identified as malicious spam. […]