Occasionally you may experience a feeling that you have not received any email in a while. One of the first things to check is to see if your email is "Working Offline". This is easy to determine by viewing the lower left hand corner of your active Outlook window.
All staff of Finance, Operations and Administration (FOA) uses network drives for storing of files. The network drives, typically H: and U:, are fully backed up and can be used to restore files. The H: drive is your personal Home drive and you are the only one with access to it and files within. The U: drive is for your unit. Staff in your unit will be able to access anything stored in the U: drive. All FOA staff should have access to their own personal or 'home' drive.
Browser bookmarks are a useful way of saving sites that you visit frequently. Mozilla Firefox lets you sync your bookmarks and other data so you don't have to add or transfer them to your other computers. So how can you turn on this feature? Follow these quick steps for enabling sync on Mozilla Firefox.
Browser bookmarks are a useful way of saving sites that you visit frequently. Google Chrome lets you sync your bookmarks and other data so you don't have to add or transfer them to your other computers. So how can you turn on this feature? Follow these quick steps for enabling sync on Google Chrome.
Sign in to Chrome
When you sign in to Chrome on all your devices, they'll all show the same info:
Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features:
Quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window or full screen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer.
Easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot.
Export the screenshot in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to e-mail, send Office programs or upload to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa, and others.
"Phishing" (pronounced "fishing") refers to a form of fraud that attempts to acquire sensitive information (usually your username, also called login or loginID, and passphrase/passphrase). There are many variations, but the most obvious characteristic of a phishing message is that it instructs you to provide sensitive information either by replying to the message, or by clicking on a link and entering the information on a web page.
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Spring has finally sprung here in Davis. Now is the time to do your spring cleaning. Merriam-Webster defines Spring Cleaning as the act or process of doing a thorough cleaning of a place. Most people associate spring cleaning with their homes. However, now is also a great time to do some 'digital' spring cleaning. Like cleaning your home, the work won't be fun, but you'll improve your security and your devices might run faster.
Outlook provides users a way to convert emails to PDFs either individually or as a group of emails (existing in same folder). When done individually, the desired email can be converted by printing to PDF or saving the file as a PDF. Also, if Adobe Acrobat (full version) is installed, complete folders can be saved as a collection of PDFs. The collection can be opened as an Acrobat portfolio as an archive of a group of PDF'd emails, preserving the emails including attachments. This option is good to preserve emails that need to be archived for other people's use and opened as an email viewer. The portfolio's structure is maintained and will list all available emails in the portfolio and the attachments to the emails. Read more
You have the ability in Windows 10 to customize and personalize your Start Menu to help you work and find frequently used Apps more efficiently. Most computers start with a generic start menu, but with a few clicks here and some moves here and there, you can have your Start Menu looking exactly the way you want it.
AdminIT utilizes the IBM BigFix Self Service application and the IBM BigFix Support Center to allow end-users to install frequently requested software onto their computer on their own without needing administrative rights. To install one of the available software offers, please refer to the instructions below.
Microsoft Outlook features the ability to open shared mailboxes in addition to your own personal email mailbox. This is often used by departments that utilize a shared departmental mailbox in which access is shared among the team. If you need to open an shared mailbox in Outlook, proceed with the steps below.
