You may need to update a regular or recurring calendar meeting invite for various reasons. Occasionally folks leave, retire or take a position with another department in the University or new employees arrive. It is important that meetings be updated as staff changes occur. Luckily, this is easy to do and does not require canceling and recreating the meeting.
The UC Davis staff directory is a helpful tool for letting the campus community know how to contact you. It’s also connected to the campus’s email system, so changes that you make to your directory listing will also show up when someone searches for you in Outlook.
Occasionally a need arises to send email from a group or alternate email address. These simple instructions will help you configure your Outlook email client to show email as being sent from another address.
As we share more and more of our personal information on the internet, it's always important to ensure that others can't capture and read that information while it's transmitted. For this reason, HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure) is one of the internet's most useful tools. Through the magic of math, HTTPS encrypts data as it travels to its destination and makes sure that the person on the other end of the transaction is actually who they say they are.
Every now and then an Outlook folder will go missing. You know it used to be there, but now it's disappeared. Often, the folder has simply been accidentally moved underneath another Outlook folder without you realizing it, and while you can still find an email through search, you can't figure out where it's hiding. If this has happened to you, here is the way to find your folder.
If you receive large volumes of email throughout the day, it’s likely that you rely heavily on Outlook’s search functions to find specific emails. Instead of regularly repeating common searches, you may save yourself time by saving your search as a ‘Search Folder.’
Do you receive important emails that are sent to your junk email folder? Do you receive a lot of junk email that you'd like to automatically sort into your junk email folder? Good news, you can customize Outlook to handle your junk and non-junk email.
Lunch, snacks, and drinks are often our closest companions while we're typing away at our computers. When it's time to sanitize your keyboard and remove dirt and bacteria, don't worry--you can remove all of it effectively in just a few steps.
UC Davis now has a campus-wide solution for surveys: Qualtrics Research Suite. Qualtrics is similar to other web-based survey tools, such as Survey Monkey or Survey Gizmo.
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.
