Switching to Office 365 on Sunday

April 29, 2022

Switching to Office 365 on Sunday – How to continue accessing your emails

On Sunday 1 May Microsoft will end support for Office 2010 and colleagues using the Outlook 2010 desktop application to access their emails will find that it no longer sends or receives any further emails. This means that colleagues must move to using the online email portal available at office.com by logging in with their NHSmail email address and password using Microsoft Edge.

Microsoft Edge can be found on your desktop with the following icon:

Colleagues who require more advanced functionality and need to retain desktop applications will need to apply for special licensing which can be ordered by managers using the form below.

Office 365 Enterprise Licensing Request Form.

Organising your archives – Ditch the PST files before Sunday

In the past, when colleagues ran out of inbox space they were able to save their emails to a local archive known as a PST file. However as part of Office 365 all colleagues now have access to an online archive where they can store 100gb of emails.

Colleagues who are currently using PST files to store their archived emails are now being encouraged to move their archived emails to the online NHSmail archive before Outlook 2010 is disabled on Sunday.

If you believe you may have emails stored in PST archive files, please follow the instructions in the following document to move them in to your NHSmail archive.

PST user guide for Online Archive

Need some help with Office 365 – Virtual support sessions are available

Colleagues who are keen to get a helping hand finding their way around the new Office 365 tools can now join virtual drop in sessions that have been made available.

Whether you are simply trying to get to grips with the new tools, migrate your data over to SharePoint or simply find your way around the new system, colleagues from Informatics will be on hand morning, noon and night to help you find your way.

Virtual drop in sessions are taking place 3 times a day Monday to Friday at 11am, 2pm and 9pm, and twice a day at weekends at 11am and 9pm.

Below is the schedule for the sessions, click on the time to join the respective session.

For more information, advice and support refer to Connect or email the support team on swbh.sharepoint.migration@nhs.net.