Currently NHS sites can have a mixed email estate of both
Exchange and NHSmail, however this will all change with the introduction of NHSmail2. In the future a NHS email estate will most
likely be either Exchange or wholly NHSmail2, it will not be possible to mix
the two together.
What problems or issues does this present to the NHS IT
professionals and the provision of their email service?
For Exchange sites who also have some existing NHSmail
users, if they decide stay with their on premise Exchange servers and not move
to NHSmail2 then their NHSmail emails will not be accessible. This could present problems to clinicians who
use NHSmail for secure email communications.
To make NHSmail emails accessible means exporting emails out
of NHSmail and re-importing them back into Exchange by probably using PST
files. PST files have their own set of
problems and their use is best avoided.
Our Mailsafe email archiving and management product is
completely independent of Exchange and NHSmail or NHSmail2 and is compatible
with all these email environments. With
its user side Outlook ‘add in’ facility it is able to solve many of the
migration issues that get presented when a NHS site decides to move to NHSmail2
or decides to stay as they are.