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| Following the NHSmail refresh, you’ll be able to access your emails, calendar and contacts through the Outlook desktop application, via a web browser (Outlook Web Access) and your mobile device.
With Exchange Online, you’ll be able to:
Click here for additional training content for Outlook on the web |
Exchange Online
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| You’ll now have access to Teams, a hub for collaboration in Office 365. This application will enable you and your colleagues to send instant messages, make internal calls, share, edit and collaborate on files and documents all in one central, secure location. Everything you once did in Skype for Business can now be done in Teams, plus more.
With Teams, you’ll be able to:
Following your upgrade, you will gain the benefits of Teams and Outlook calendar integration. Within 1-3 days post Refresh, the calendar icon will appear within the menu on the left-hand side of the Teams client allowing you to access and schedule meetings with ease. Click here to check out the new Support Site dedicated to Teams functionality support. Click here for additional training content to get started |
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| With OneDrive for Business, you can upload, store and access work files from multiple devices. This secure cloud service connects you to all your files, so you can create and collaborate from anywhere, at any time. You will be allocated a default size of 1TB.
With OneDrive, you’ll be able to:
Click here for additional training content |
OneDrive for Business
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| Use SharePoint as a unified collaboration space for content, documents and tasks. Create a site and share files with a variety of audiences across NHSmail. Use SharePoint to discover, follow and search for specific files and sites though modern and visual layouts. You will be allocated a default size of 2GB.
With SharePoint, you’ll be able to:
Important Note: Your Local Administrator will be responsible for setting up and managing your SharePoint sites. Click here for additional training content |
SharePoint
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| Online Archiving is a solution that enables you to store and manage older or legacy emails outside of your primary mailbox – freeing up quota space and improving Outlook performance. Following the NHSmail refresh, you will see an additional mailbox in the left-hand side panel of Outlook (Outlook desktop application or Outlook on the Web). This will follow a similar naming convention to your primary account with the prefix ‘Online Archive’ used in the Outlook desktop client and ‘In-Place Archive’ used in Outlook on the Web, followed by your nhs.net account email address.
Initially 100GB of online archiving storage space will be provided, alongside the standard 4GB mailbox allocation. There is an option to configure a policy that will automatically move emails of a certain age into the online archive mailbox or this can be managed manually. For detailed guidance, please visit the full support site article – here. |
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| Part of the refresh you will be given access to use the new online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. Create, share and collaborate using the Office suite on your browser across all device types.
With Office Online, you’ll be able to:
Click here for additional training content |
Microsoft Office Online
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Power Automate is a tool that allows you to automate repetitive tasks. Using the simple interface, you will be able to create workflows to send and receive notifications, gather information and sync important files.
Click here for additional training content |
Power Automate
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| Power Apps is a tool that will allow you to build custom applications, without any coding knowledge or experience. Use the simple interface to turn your innovative ideas into apps. Help to modernise processes and solve challenges within your Organisation.
With Power Apps, you’ll be able to:
Click here for additional training content |
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| Stream is a video service that allows you to create, share and interact with videos across your organisation. Share recordings, meetings or training sessions with individual colleagues or wider teams to aid collaboration and learning. Watch videos from across your organisation, in one central hub, at a time convenient for you.
With Stream, you’ll be able to:
Click here for additional training content |
Microsoft Stream
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| Delve is a web-based collaboration tool, that maps connections between people, interactions and content. It will help you find and discover information relevant to you across the suite of O365 applications and broader NHS network. Create and customise your profile to show the files you’ve recently worked on, as well as your favourites. Browse your network by searching for fellow medical professionals based on a range of skills or demographics.
With Delve, you’ll be able to:
Click here for additional training content |
Office Delve
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| With Planner you’ll be able to easily create, assign and manage project tasks. Use the Kanban view to organise your team’s workload and track the progress of key activities. Use buckets, labels and comments to personalise your dashboard for collaboration and planning.
With Planner, you’ll be able to:
Click here for additional training content. |
Microsoft Planner
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| Power BI is a tool that will allow you to analyse data through reports and dashboards, supporting with faster and informed decisions and presenting information in ways that makes most sense to you and your team.
With Power BI, you’ll be able to:
Click here for additional training content |
Power BI
Security group for your organisation |
| Following a recent Portal release, your organisation is now able to create a security group for SharePoint, Teams sites and Outlook calendar sharing.
The naming convention for the new security group will be allusers.ods (where .ods will reflect your organisation’s ODS code). This group will encompass all of your organisation’s users and will dynamically update as users join or leave your organisation. To request this security user group, please access Helpdesk Self Service (HSS) and use the Security Group request form. |
| Last Reviewed Date | 8/7/2021 |
