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Email and Calendars

This section contains common articles related to VTCRI email and calendaring.

  • Accessing your FBRI Email

    If you are FBRI faculty, staff, or a student that has been given a mailbox within our Exchange system, vs. a forwarding address, you can access your mailbox in several different and simultaneous ways:...

  • Accessing Virginia Tech (non-FBRI) Email

    Virginia Tech provides all faculty, staff, and students email accounts.  To learn how to access and interact with your Virginia Tech (@vt.edu) email account, click here.  Why do I have two email addre...

  • Sending Encrypted Emails

    Email encryption provides an additional layer of security when sending an email. Email encryption is available to anyone with an FBRI email account. Email encryption converts the message and any attac...

  • Receiving / Reading an Encrypted Email

    If you have received an encrypted email from someone at the FBRI, you can use the instructions below to receive and read it.   1. If you have received an encrypted message from someone at the FBRI, th...

  • HS&T Social Events and Activities Mailing List

    As the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC expands and grows, faculty, staff, and students on the Roanoke campus have been asking for a better way to share information about events, opportunit...

  • Why do I Have Two Email Addresses?

    Virginia Tech and the FBRI have different user directories and email systems.  Virginia Tech email addresses end in @vt.edu and FBRI (and VTCSOM) email addresses end in @vtc.vt.edu.   Which is preferr...

  • @vt.edu Email Issues

    If you are having issues or need help with your Virginia Tech (not FBRI) email, visit Virginia Tech 4Help to submit a request or search for help.   NOTE: VT supplies and maintains @vt.edu email accoun...

  • Detect and Avoid phishing Attacks

    TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE and take the phish test! CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LATEST PHISHING ATTEMPT EXAMPLES What is phishing? Phishing is a cyber attack that uses disguised email as a weapon. The goal is to t...

  • FBRI WebMail

    You can access your FBRI email account using any web browser by going here: FBRI Web-Based Email (https://webmail.vtc.vt.edu/) and logging in using your FBRI username (not your email address) and your...

  • Configuring Outlook on Windows 10

    The follow describes how to configure Outlook for your FBRI email account on a Windows 10 PC: Open Outlook via the Start Menu or Taskbar icon (if one is present on your system). If you already have an...