Change your contact preferences
Updated: February 27, 2014
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This topic provides online help content for cloud services, such as Windows Intune and Office 365, which rely on Windows Azure Active Directory for identity and directory services.
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When you first signed up as an administrator for a Microsoft cloud service, depending on the country or region of the users in your company, your users may have been automatically signed up to receive product-related information. You can use the My profile page to change how the cloud service contacts you with this information. And the Contact preferences section of the My profile page is where you can update your settings to receive different types of product information.
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You will continue to receive email messages related to your billing and service accounts even if you choose not to receive the product information available on the My profile page.
What do you want to do?
Update your contact information
Choose the type of information that you receive
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The following steps can be completed using either the Office 365 account portal, the Windows Intune account portal or the Windows Azure AD portal, depending on which services your organization has subscribed to. In this way, portals act as front-end interfaces that pull in directory data associated with your organizations Windows Azure AD tenant. For more information about using portals to manage your tenant, see Administering your Windows Azure AD tenant.
Update your contact information
Use the Contact preferences section of the My profile page to update your preferred contact information.
Depending on which portal you are using, in the header, click either My profile or click YourProfileName, and then click My profile.
Under Contact preferences, type your preferred phone, mobile phone, or email address where you want to receive communications.
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Using Office 365? The communications that you receive at your preferred email address are optional, so you can use any email address for this purpose, including an Office 365 email address. In contrast, the alternate email address that is listed under Information on the My profile page is used as a backup to your Office 365 email address for important notifications, including password resets. You should not use your Office 365 email address as your alternate email address.
Click Save.
Choose the type of information that you receive
Use the Contact me about section of the My profile page to select the types of product-related information that you want to receive.
Depending on which portal you are using, in the header, click either My profile or click YourProfileName, and then click My profile.
Under Contact me about, select the check box next to the product-related options that interest you. Clear a check box next to an option if you do not want to receive information.
Click Save.