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Email and Calendars

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

  • Schedule an email to Automatically Send at a Later Time

    Windows: (see below for OSX / Mac instructions) Scheduling an email to send later in Outlook on Windows takes only a few clicks. Step 1: Open Outlook on Windows and click New email or reply to an exis...

  • How To Send a Meeting Invitation and BCC Attendees

    Normally, you can Bcc (blind carbon copy) an email to recipients easily by adding the recipient email addresses into the Bcc filed in Outlook. However, there is no Bcc field in the meeting or appointm...

  • Update Your Contact Information

    To update your contact information, address, etc. in the FBRI directory / address book, please do the following: Visit https://myaccount.vtc.vt.edu and log in with your FBRI credentials Once logged in...

  • How to increase the number of search results returned by Microsoft Outlook (Windows)

    Search results returned by Microsoft Outlook are limited to 250 items by default, allowing for speedy searches. The limit can be easily increased to either 1000 or unlimited results. The unlimited opt...

  • Always Show the BCC Field in Outlook

    Always Show The Bcc Field In Outlook To always show the Bcc field in the new, replying, and forwarding email message windows in Outlook. 1. In the Mail view, please click Home > New Email to create a ...

  • Outlook for Mac search returns "No Results," and task items are not displayed

    Symptoms In Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac or Office for Mac 2011, you receive a No Results message when you try to search for an email message or apply a filter to a folder, and task items are not di...

  • "No Results Found" When Searching Outlook (Mac OS X)

    If you are experiencing issues when searching for emails in your Outlook on Mac OS X, the issue can be resolved by rebuilding the search index.  Follow these steps to rebuild the index: Choose Apple m...

  • Revert "New" Outlook on Mac OSX

    If you accidentally hit the “Use New Outlook” option that appears with the newest version of Outlook for Mac OSX (generally after updating the software), you can click the button in the upper right to...

  • FBRI Email Auto-Archiving

    FBRI has enabled automatic email archiving for all user email accounts.   This feature will affect all Calendar Items, Inbox items (Including subfolders), Sent Items and Deleted Items in your Mailbox....

  • Search Outlook Online Archive - Windows

    When searching for an email older than 180 days, you will need to include the Online Archive Mailbox in you search. In Outlook for Windows, next to the search box, there should be a dropdown menu, thi...