Teams Federation

Guidance on Microsoft Teams federation to allow the connection of an organisation's own implementation of Teams, either an on premise or online solution.

From July 2021, NHSmail Teams users have the ability to search, message and call users from federated ‘non-NHSmail’ organisations, and for users from the other organisation to do the same with NHSmail users.

The following article provides guidance for non-NHSmail organisations to enable external communication with NHSmail’s Microsoft Teams service from their own Teams platform.

Guidance on Teams Federation Access - Capabilities and Process

Guidance around allow listing external domains within the NHSmail shared tenant environment to have Teams federation successfully enabled