Purpose
Microsoft allows you to integrate your LinkedIn profile with your Outlook making it easier for your colleagues to network with you. This feature is available to all students, staff, and faculty at UTD.
The article explains how we can integrate LinkedIn with Outlook and Teams. Users can follow the same instructions for both Outlook browser and desktop application (Windows).
Note: Mac users can only integrate their LinkedIn profile to Outlook on the web browser. The feature is not yet available on the desktop version.
Video Tutorial
Process
Add LinkedIn to Your Outlook Profile
- Choose an email you are marked on and select your profile picture to open your profile card.
- Click on the LinkedIn icon as shown below.
Note: The user can see the LinkedIn icon only if they have received an update that includes LinkedIn integration features.
- Select Yes, Let’s go! > Continue to LinkedIn.
- Log in to your LinkedIn account.
- Select Accept to connect your LinkedIn account with Microsoft Apps at UTD.
- Also, select Accept to integrate your UTD account with LinkedIn.
- Now, you can see your LinkedIn information on your profile card.
Integrate LinkedIn to Teams
- Open Teams.
- Select the Three dots icon (...) in the right corner next to your profile picture and navigate to About > Public Preview.
- Navigate to the chat with yourself window and click on the Down arrow icon labeled 2 more as shown below.
- Select LinkedIn.
- Your LinkedIn profile will appear since it was already integrated through Outlook.
- Similarly, you can hover over a colleague’s contact for a second and see the LinkedIn icon.
