Session 5 - Managing Microsoft Outlook and More
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The document summarizes an information technology training session on March 29, 2012. It covers three parts: Microsoft Outlook email and calendar skills, an update on the recent migration to Microsoft 365, and managing passwords. The session demonstrated Outlook features like spelling checks, signatures, folders and rules. It explained that the old login client was uninstalled as part of migrating to 365. The session reminded users that passwords are still recommended to change twice a year and can be changed in the 365 portal.
Session 5 - Managing Microsoft Outlook and More
- 1. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Microsoft Outlook – Inside Out Microsoft 365 Update Managing Your Passwords William Mann, Chief Information Officer 1
- 2. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 1 Microsoft Outlook – Email Skills William Mann, Chief Information Officer 2
- 3. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 The exciting history of CC and BCC The story of the blind carbon copy function is an example of old real world processes continuing into the virtual world. The simple term "carbon copy" comes from the days of manual typewriters, when copies were made by typing on paper with several layers. Between each layer of paper was a thin sheet with carbon on the bottom side, so that when the typewriter keys hit the paper, the impact made a "carbon copy" of the letter on the paper sheet underneath. When you were finished typing a page, you would separate out the paper and throw away the carbon sheets. Anyone who is older than 40 surely remembers this and that you usually got some of the black carbon all over your hands. You could get two, three, and four layer carbon copy paper, and even some very thin six layer paper. The top paper got the typewriter ink and looked the best. The top carbon copies always looked much crisper than the lower copies, as the force of the typewriter key strike dissipated through the layers. Occasionally, an extra carbon copy would be given to someone not on the official CC carbon copy address list. Because there was no way the official addressees could know about these extra copies, they were called "blind carbon-copies" (BCC). It turned out that people liked this feature so much it has survived into our virtual world and has been built into email. If you put addresses in the BCC field of an email it will be secretly copied to those addresses, and none of the other addresses in the To, CC, or BCC fields will know about it because the BCC field is not displayed on incoming messages. 3
- 4. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 There are many reasons that the BCC field can be used. Secret Squirrel: You can blind copy an email to someone without the other addresses knowing that you did so to make a third party aware of an important issue, or to establish an independent confidential record of your email. Be aware that you should have a good and ethical reason for not letting the primary addressee know that the email is being copied to someone else. Be aware that blind copying can be looked as a form of deception. Copying yourself: You can blind copy yourself. For example you may want to copy an important email from your home address to your work address, or vice versa. Network diagnostics: You can double-check that an important email makes it out onto the internet by blind copying yourself on the email at another address, preferably at a different domain name. If the blind copied email to yourself arrives at your other address, then you can be reasonably sure that the copy of the email to the main addressee you are concerned about made it from your Internet service provider. Broadcasting: You can blind copy several email addresses at once in the BCC field if you are sending the email to more than one person. This feature of the blind copy is useful when for privacy reasons you don't necessarily want all of the recipients to know the addresses of the others. Information. You can surreptitiously copy one friend on a joke email to another friend. 4
- 5. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 1 Microsoft Outlook – Email Skills • Spelling (demonstrate various spelling grammar skills.) • Thesaurus (demonstrate the thesaurus function.) William Mann, Chief Information Officer 5
- 6. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 1 Microsoft Outlook – Email Skills • Creating a Signature (demonstrate creating a signature.) • Creating a Folder (demonstrate creating folders.) William Mann, Chief Information Officer 6
- 7. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 1 Microsoft Outlook – Email Skills • Reading Pane Options (demonstrate reading panes.) • Find (demonstrating searching email.) William Mann, Chief Information Officer 7
- 8. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 1 Microsoft Outlook – Email Skills • Organizing Your Inbox (demonstrate organizing mail.) • Creating Rules (demonstrate various rule creations.) William Mann, Chief Information Officer 8
- 9. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 1 Microsoft Outlook – Email Skills • Creating a calendar event or add a new contact with an email message. William Mann, Chief Information Officer 9
- 10. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 2 Microsoft Outlook – Calendar Skills William Mann, Chief Information Officer 10
- 11. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 2 Microsoft Outlook – Calendar Skills • Scheduling & Modifying Activities • Create activity from email William Mann, Chief Information Officer 11
- 12. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 2 Microsoft Outlook – Calendar Skills • Planning a Meeting • Inviting Attendees William Mann, Chief Information Officer 12
- 13. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 2 Microsoft Outlook – Calendar Skills • Organizing Your Events (colors!) • Viewing Other (Shared) Calendars William Mann, Chief Information Officer 13
- 14. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 3 Microsoft Office 365 – Update Our organization was migrated to Microsoft 365 between March 16 & 18, 2012. What does this mean to you? William Mann, Chief Information Officer 14
- 15. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 3 This can be uninstalled Microsoft Office 365 – Update through the Add/Remove Programs in the control The Microsoft Online Services panel. login client is no longer needed and can be uninstalled. Do NOT uninstall the “Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant”. This is the new 365 application. William Mann, Chief Information Officer 15
- 16. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 3 Microsoft Office 365 – Passwords Just Got Easier William Mann, Chief Information Officer 16
- 17. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 William Mann, Chief Information Officer 17
- 18. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 William Mann, Chief Information Officer 18
- 19. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 William Mann, Chief Information Officer 19
- 20. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 ……however…….. William Mann, Chief Information Officer 20
- 21. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 It is still recommended that your email passwords are changed at least twice a year. You can do this by logging into your Microsoft 365 portal at portal.micrososftonline.com or login.microsoftonline.com & selecting “options” under Outlook. Choose “change your password” on the right taskbar. Remember to change your password on any mobile devices as well. William Mann, Chief Information Officer 21
- 22. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 What’s Next with 365? During the next couple of months many of us will be upgraded to the next level of 365. This will include access to Team SharePoint Sites, My SharePoint Sites, Microsoft Office Web Apps. William Mann, Chief Information Officer 22
- 23. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 4 Managing Your Passwords Managing your technology passwords can be over whelming. However passwords are very important because they protect your personal information and the information of your employer. There are some good & bad ways of managing your passwords. William Mann, Chief Information Officer 23
- 24. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 4 Managing Your Passwords • Sticky notes on your computer monitors is VERY BAD. • Word documents listing all your passwords is BAD. If you insist on this please password the WORD document. • Password lists in your smartphone’s “notepad” is VERY BAD. William Mann, Chief Information Officer 24
- 25. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 4 Managing Your Passwords There are many free excellent services where you can manage your passwords. I recommend exploring these services, choosing one and managing all of your documents there. William Mann, Chief Information Officer 25
- 26. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Part 4 Managing Your Passwords Here are just some password management sites I recommend. Passpack.com Lastpass.com Roboform.com There are countless other excellent solutions out there. Check them out! William Mann, Chief Information Officer 26
- 27. Information Technology Training – Session 5 – March 29, 2012 Open Discussion / Q & A William Mann, Chief Information Officer 27