On-boarding
In 2018 BDS were asked by NHS Digital to develop a new NHSmail migration solution to provide a cost effective service for NHS Trusts wishing to migrate on to the recently procured Accenture platform, as the high cost of migrating was proving to be prohibitive. Working with NHS Digital, Accenture and Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust, BDS developed a fully managed service with more capability and at a lesser price. This included identity mapping using Directory Manager provisioning services and data migration using our NHSmail Migration Toolkit.
Offering a proven, affordable solution that systematically reconciled and synchronised mailboxes, BDS delivered NHSmail On-boarding migrations to multiple NHS Trusts through 2019 and in to 2020, prior to the central NHSmail platform migration freeze. In early 2021, we adapted our NHSmail Migration Toolkit to migrate to the new Exchange Online (Office 365) service, delivering tens of thousands of mailbox migrations over the last year, working through the NHS Digital pipeline of On-boarding projects, as one of just two accredited suppliers.
Off-boarding
In recent months, the central Office 365 licencing arrangement (N365) has started to change the migration landscape, as NHS Trusts have had to decide between the national Office 365 tenant (NHSmail) and their own N365 licenced private Office 365 tenant.
With no central solution available, BDS developed NHSmail Off-boarding managed services that includes:
- Directory Manager to automate the reconciliation of NHSmail and private Office 365 tenant mailboxes
- Migration of all or selected NHSmail mailbox content
- Migration of mailbox-level permissions (Full Access, Send As and Send on Behalf) and mailbox folder-level permissions (delegated by users)
- Migration of distribution lists
If required, we can also setup the target Office 365 tenant and migrate on-premises Exchange mailboxes to Exchange Online. For example, organisations which operate a combination of on-premises Exchange and NHSmail must migrate both to Exchange Online, within the private Office 365 tenant.
Referenced as one of only two approved suppliers in the NHS Digital Off-boarding process guide, BDS offer a proven, affordable solution that systematically reconciles and synchronises mailboxes.
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