How-to Guides
How-to Guides
Browse step-by-step AAD IT guides for common tools, settings, and setup tasks.
This is the home for AAD IT’s step-by-step guides. Start here when you want clear instructions for a specific task, then open the guide that matches what you’re trying to do.
Use CrashPlan to Check and Restore Your Backups
Check your AAD computer backup, understand what CrashPlan protects, and restore files from the app or web.
Open guideUse Fixed Assets Self-Service
Respond to fixed-asset missing-list follow-up, upload required details, and understand what happens after review.
Open guideRequest Local Admin Rights
Review when local administrator access is appropriate, then submit the AAD local admin request form.
Open guideUse Fixed Assets as a Business Manager
Find, review, update, and submit evidence for assets in your assigned AAD school or unit.
Open guideMaking Outlook 365 Web Work Like Gmail
A practical setup guide for making Outlook on the web feel more like Gmail, including layout, threading, shortcuts, archive, and Undo Send.
Open guideSend Outlook Email Outside Virginia Tech
Choose the right sensitivity label in Windows, Mac, or web Outlook so external recipients can open your message.
Open guideSet Up an Out-of-Office Auto-Reply in Outlook
Turn on automatic replies from the Outlook mobile app or Outlook on the web when you are away.
Open guideReport Phishing Messages in Outlook
Use Outlook's built-in report to send a suspicious message to Microsoft 365 and the Virginia Tech Mail Team.
Open guideUse Scheduling Polls in Outlook on the Web
Send a few possible meeting times, collect votes, and choose the time that works best.
Open guideFix a PowerPoint That's Too Big for Canvas (Mac)
Export a narrated PowerPoint to video on your Mac and share it through Panopto when the file is too big to upload to Canvas.
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