Star Release – Content Summary

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The NHSmail Portal release is named in honour of Clive Star. Clive left the NHS last month after 30 years’ service, with 22 years in national roles. Throughout Clive’s career, he worked on groundbreaking transformational programmes, delivered across the entire NHS that have the legacy of making a positive difference for patients and staff alike. Over those years, Clive worked with multiple teams to evolve and innovate some of our most critical national services, including NHSmail, Microsoft Defender and the Health and Social Care Network.

Clive was involved with the NHSmail service from its earliest inception, right up to the most recent security enhancements made to improve the service, and has rightly earned the nickname, the “Grandfather of NHSmail”.

The NHSmail team are privileged to have been able to work with Clive over so many years and to share in his deep intellect and passion for improving our services. We all wish Clive the best for his future adventures outside the NHS.

Please find below a summary of the main content of the Star release which was deployed on 22nd November 2023. To view the full release notes for this release please see the PDF file at the end of this summary.

BAU Functionality – Product Backlog Items

78736- AUP Page Wording Update

This PBI updates the Acceptable Use Policy to include the following new and/or amended sections:

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) – outlining guidance and recommendations regarding the use of MFA on NHSmail to enhance the security of the platform.
- General information about the NHSmail O365 Shared Tenant.
- Information governance considerations.

BAU Functionality – Bug Fixes

74968- Dial-Out (Dial-in Add-On licence) is reducing toggles on the base licence

This bug identified the removal of application toggles from the base licence when a Dial-In Conferencing add-on licence has been applied to a User Policy. The bug fix has resolved the issue ensuring all application toggles are visible in the User Policy base licence when this add-on licence has been applied, as well as any additional add-on licences.

75569- Dial-Out Internationally toggle is not appearing for some dial-in enabled policies

This bug identified the missing Dial-Out International toggle when the Dial-In Conferencing add-on licence was applied to User Policies. The bug fix has resolved the issue, ensuring the Dial-Out International toggle is visible.

The toggle is “Off” by default and Local Admins will need to enable this feature as required when creating or updating User Policies for their organisation.

To view the full release note please refer to the PDF file.