Author: Bob Lin

1. Open Outlook and go to the People tab.

2. Select Home > New Contact Group.

3. In the Contact Group box, type the name for the group, for example chicagotech.

4. Click on Add Members , and you have 3 options:

Select From Outlook Contacts.

Select From Address Book.

Select New E-mail Contact.

5. Add people from your address book or contacts list, and choose OK. To select multiple people, hold down the Ctrl key as you choose members. 

6. Choose Save & Close.

To share a contact list that you created and stored in “Your Contact Lists” in Outlook, you can follow these steps:

1. Open Outlook and go to the People tab.

2. Select the contact list that you want to share from My Contacts.

3. Right click on the Contact folder you want to share and select Share>Share Contacts.

4. In the “Share Contacts” dialog box, enter the email addresses of the people you want to share the contact list with.

5. Add a message (optional) and click “Send”.

6. The recipients will receive an email with a link to the shared contact list. They can then open the link and access the contact list in their own Outlook for Windows account.

Step 1. Create a Public Folder

Go to the Exchange Admin Center by clicking “Admin”, then select “Exchange” from the drop down.

Step 1: Check if your system is compatible

1. Type msinfo32 in the search bar and click on Open.

2. make sure hypervisor has been detected.

Step 2: Enable Hyper-V on Windows 11

1. Type optionalfeatures and press Enter.

Situation: the client keeps having an issue with an external email address. Whenever an email comes from the externa email address, it always is marked spam and sent to quarantine.

Resolution: We can create a bypass tule. here is how.

• Login Microsoft 365 admin center.
• Go to Exchange admin center.
• Navigate to Mail flow>Rules.
• Click on Add a rule.

5. Click on Create a new rule.

6. Enter the Name, Apply this if, Do the following and make sure you select Modify the message properties and Set the spam confidence leave (SCL) to -1.

7. It looks like this.

8. make sure it is Enabled.

To grant access to specific users traveling to specific countries, you can add a user to “exclude” group in Conditional Access policies. Here is how.

1. Sign in to the Azure portal and navigate to Azure Active Directory.
2. Click on Security on the left panel.
3. Click on Conditional Access.
4. Click on Policies.
5. Select exclude users and group.
6. Add the user to exclude users and group.

To start a Teams recording, select More actions > Record and transcribe > Start recording.

To stop the recoding, lick on More actions > Record and transcribe > Stop recording.

To find the recording file, open OneDrive, go to Recording folder.

1. Go to Settings.>Personalization.

2. Under Personalization>Taskbar, click on Touch keyboard, you have these options: Never, Always, and When no keyboard attached.

3. You may also want to enable Virtual touchpad.

Quoted from microsoft:

To use live translated captions in Microsoft Teams, the meeting organizer must have a Teams Premium license for attendees12. Live transcriptions are available in English (US) on Teams Desktop for scheduled meetings under certain licenses3. If you’re facing this dilemma, the only solution to access live translation is by upgrading to Teams Premium4. A Microsoft 365 or Office 365 license is required to participate in a live event as an authenticated user5.

No, it is impossible to add external users to a shared mailbox. However, you may be able to add guests to distribution group.