Portal – Queen-Bee Release

23/11/2020

The Queen- Bee Portal release was implemented as planned on the evening of 23/11/2020 with new features for core NHSmail Portal functionality and bug fixes.

New Functionality

40132 – Teams user activity report

Teams user activity report is a new Office 365 usage report which will be available at local org as well as platform wide to report teams user activity aggregated over a period of time. Global/Local admin should be able to download these reports from ‘Admin Reports’ for all/specific organisations. This report is by default available for 180 days.

40134 – SharePoint site usage detail Report

SharePoint site usage detail report is a new Office 365 usage report which will be available at local org as well as platform wide to report SharePoint site usage detail aggregated over a period. Global/Local admin should be able to download these reports from ‘Admin Reports’ for all/specific organisations. This report is by default available for 180 days.

43145- JavaScript library upgrade

As part of ITHC remediation the below versions have been upgraded

  • The library bootstrap version upgrade from 3.0.1 to 3.4.1
  • The library jQuery version 1.10.2. should upgrade to latest v3.5.1
  • JavaScript library html5shiv version 3.7.2. (latest available is 3.7.3)
  • JavaScript library Respond.js version 1.2.0. (latest available is 1.4.2)

43311 – Fluent validations and HTTP header changes

As part of ITHC remediation, incorporated fluent validations to some of the existing APIs to make them more robust and secure.

Hybrid

40457 – EXO :: Get Details of DDL from EXO

With the move to using Exchange Online, Scope of this PBI is to retrieve the details of a DDL from Exchange Online, where the DDL has been re-created in Exchange Online.

40473 EXO :: Update Admin Exchange Online SDL

With the move to using Exchange Online Scope of this PBI is to retrieve the details of a SDL from Exchange Online, where the SDL has been re-created in Exchange Online.

40475 – EXO :: Delete an Exchange Online DDL

With the move to using Exchange Online, Scope of this PBI is to delete an DDL, where the DDL has been re-created in Exchange Online.

40514 – EXO :: Transfer an Exchange Online SDL

With the migration to Exchange online Scope of this PBI is the ability to transfer an Exchange Online SDL.

40515 – EXO :: Transfer an Exchange Online DDL

With the migration to Exchange online Scope of this PBI is the ability to transfer an Exchange Online DDL.

40915 – EXO :: Add archiving details to User Details page

As part of this PBI NHSmail portal would like to have O365 archiving turned ON (by default) for users on the platform. This is a per user setting and will not be applied through user policies.

41058 – EXO :: Refactor of the AUP process

As scope of this PBI a newly created exchange online user who logs into the portal and accepts the AUP will be removed from the NO AUP active directory group

41059 – EXO :: Create an AUP Sync job

As scope of this PBI

  • All the users with the AUP flag set to 0 within the NHSmail portal, will be a member of the NO AUP group in the On-Prem AD group
  • All the users with the AUP flag set to 1 within the NHSmail portal, will no longer be a members of the NO AUP group in the On-Prem AD group.

41546 – EXO :: Create an EXO DDL

As scope of this PBI when creating a dynamic distribution list through the NHSmail portal, the Dynamic distribution list will be created in Exchange Online compared with On-Premise. This will apply to all dynamic distribution lists created through the Admin and Non-Admin -> Approval workflow.

 41642 – EXO :: Update an Exchange Online DDL

With the migration to exchange online scope of this PBI  is to provide with the ability to update an exchange online DDL.

42043 – EXO :: Update the user policy pages to allow Teams toggle to be shown

Scope of this PBI is when creating or editing a user policy, the admin users want the ability to turn on/off teams for their users. The Teams application toggle should now be visible for all policies excluding the National policy which has been created in the portal.

42045 – EXO :: Change MFA Licence Assignment to Consider Built-in MFA on E3/E5

Scope of this PBI is

  • When a user policy has an E3 or E5 licence as its base licence, and MFA is enabled, there should be no additional checks or restrictions (including capacity) for a standalone MFA licence.
  • The MFA feature must be enabled for users in a user policy with a base E3/E5 licence and the MFA toggle turned on without needing to be assigned a standalone MFA licence.
  • Current functionality for temporarily disabling MFA must continue to work as current.
  • Current functionality for required MFA on ATP roles must continue to work as current.
  • For users in a User Policy which does not have MFA turned on, but which require MFA for other business rules (e.g. they are admin users), updates to the user policy must not remove the MFA from the user

44018 – EXO :: Update the migration stored proc to set deleted date & Archiving

As scope of this PBI After migration when resetting the status of a mailbox from Migration Pending back to Deleted, we should also update the date deleted to today’s date.

We should also set the O365Archving toggle to on for users that have been migrated.

Bug Fixes

37759 – Teams – Edit Teams page gives a transfer option which is not supported

Fix has been given to make the ‘Transfer’ button work for the Teams in the edit page which was not responsive before.

 42398 – Ensure guest attestation email send job completes a full run despite encountering error

As the guest attestation job was terminating incorrectly when some error occurred, fix has been given to make sure the job is completed and sends email to all the users in the list.

42606 – Update Deployment Script to Ensure No Department/Org Unit Organisations are included when creating new national user policies

 As a part of the bug while creating new national user policies the code was considering OU and departments as well which should not happen. Fix has been given on the same.

42964 – Prod : EXO users going into a status of ‘restoring’

As a part of the bug it has been observed that couple of users are getting stuck in restoring state and not moving to active state. Fix has been given on the same.

43777 – Queen Bee Prod : Large Mailbox Quota incorrect values

As a part of the bug it has been observed the large mailbox boundary values are showing incorrect values for creating mailboxes. Fix has been given on the same.

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