How do I remove the “Birthdays” calendar from my office 365 calender?

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To disable / delete the “Birthdays” Calendar in office 365, you’ll need to sign into your webmail account and do the following:

  1. Open your mailbox by going to https://vcsowa.vcsny.com/owa
  2. Click the cog in the top right
  3. Click the “Calendar” link at the bottom right
  4. Navigate on the left-hand pane to “Other Calendars, Birthday calendar”
  5. Click the option “Turn off the birthday calendar”.
  6. Click Save at the top.

Gmail’s New Procedure for Whitelisting Email Addresses

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Gmail recently made changes to how spam filtering works in GMAIL. To set up a whitelist rule, do the following:

  1. Log in to your Gmail account from a Desktop or Laptop Computer (Does not work on a phone)
  2. Click the GEAR icon at the top right and then click SETTINGS.
  3. Go to FILTERS AND BLOCKED ADDRESSES and click CREATE A NEW FILTER.
  4. In the FROM section, type the email address of the sender that you want to keep out of your Spam Folder.
  5. Click CREATE FILTER.
  6. Check NEVER SEND IT TO SPAM and ALSO APPLY FILTER TO MATCHING MESSAGES boxes.
  7. Click CREATE FILTER again.

For more information on creating rules in gmail, visit this article here:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6579