Bulletins and communications

This month's LA bulletin covers the following: Accessing NHSmail services from outside of the UK, Microsoft Teams Rooms device licensing reminder, Basic Authentication deprecation, Disabling Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) on user accounts, MFA policy document publication, NHSmail Primary Care GP Telephony provision, NHSmail O365 Townhall, OneNote to block embedded files that have dangerous extensions, NHSmail Phone System and Self Service Password reset update.

As previously communicated, basic authentication is being deprecated on the NHSmail tenant in line with Microsoft policy and is being replaced by modern authentication to make the service more secure. This is a reminder that as part of Phase 1 the following protocols will be deprecated this week from the 27 April

This month's LA Bulletin covered the following: Basic Authentication Deprecation, Private vs. public settings in O365 Multifactor Authentication (MFA) update, Local Administrator webinar date change, Exchange Online Archiving, NHSmail Bring Your Own Device (BYO) solution, Self-service password reset, NHSmail Solution Store, Microsoft Teams Phone System is Coming Soon!

The following topics were covered in this month's LA Bulletin: Coming soon: Mandatory Multifactor Authentication (MFA) for NHSmail user accounts – 30 June 2023, NHSmail annual user survey now open, administering Distribution Lists and further information on Introduction of NHSmail Guide Chatbot, NHSmail Intune Overview, NHSmail Bring Your Own Device Security Controls, Manage Facilities with Desk Booking Apps, and Schedule Send Suggestions Available in Microsoft Teams Chat

The following topics were covered in this month's LA Bulletin: NHSmail all user survey update, Basic Authentication deprecation in Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams Phone System, NHSmail introduced number matching in MFA and covered how to access NHSmail services from outside of the UK, Power Platform Old Default Environment decommissioning update, N365 NHSmail Townhalls 2023 information.

On 9 January 2023, as part of updates to the Microsoft Teams Desktop Client, users on Teams 1.4 or earlier will encounter a blocking page requesting to upgrade to the latest version of Teams.

The archived LA Bulletins are available here.

The archived LA Communication are available here.