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Email and Calendars

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

  • Remove a mobile device from your Exchange account

    Most users switch to new mobile devices or add new ones. Over a period of time, your Exchange mailbox may have quite a few mobile devices.  If you reach 10, you can add no more.   You can remove it fr...

  • 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...

  • Reserve a Room from Gmail

    After viewing the calendar for the resource you wish to use, follow the steps below from your calendar to send an appointment and request the time slot.   PLEASE NOTE: These instructions are for using...

  • Create Appointment in Google Calendars

    1) Open Google Calendar (login instructions available here). 2) Double-Click the date/time you want to schedule. The following screen will appear:  3) Enter in all of the details for the appointment f...

  • Add Shared Google Calendar

    In the event that you are given access to or requested to participate in a shared Google Calendar, you will be able to access it following the instructions below: 1) Once the owner of the calendar has...

  • 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...