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Office 365: Extending the deadline and supporting teams to migrate safely

September 16, 2021

Thank you to everyone who has already made a start at getting their shared drives ready to be moved over to Sharepoint. This change is much needed, long awaited and will benefit everyone in the long-term.

However, it’s clear that this is a significant change to our way of working and we need to support teams and departments to migrate confidently and safe in the knowledge that we minimise any impact to service delivery and assure there is no data loss. Therefore, we have taken the decision to extend the migration deadline to 10 December, allowing teams time to prepare for the move and to access the support that is available through the IT Servicedesk. 

It’s important however, that with this extension teams and departments push through and work to try and migrate their data as soon as possible.

Remember, support is available for all teams and departments, simply contact the IT Servicedesk and colleagues can either guide you through the migration remotely or make time to support in person.

To ensure you are able to migrate smoothly, please ensure you have done the following:

  • Each department should by now have nominated a lead to support their move to Office 365. This will be a named person in each department who will lead on supporting the migration of data. Please ensure the name of this person has been forwarded on to penina.chiweshe@nhs.net, with details of the department and the network share they will lead the migration on.
  • Colleagues who would like some support with getting to grips with the new system can access training online here: Office 365 – eLearning Quick Start
  • Please ensure you have carried out some housekeeping on your network shares, ensuring that files and folders are organised and ready to be transferred.
  • Colleagues should begin organising and transferring their personal documents out of their h drives and in to their new OneDrive share areas.

If you would like further support and guidance on migrating files, please contact the IT Servicedesk on ext. 4050 or 0121 507 4050.