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Email Service Updates
The IS department is working on some significant changes to the way we work, the first phase of this project focused on an update to our Exchange Email solution.
We are going Cloud!
of security experts monitors Exchange Online around the clock to safeguard email data. These measures helps protect email from cyber security threats.
Efficient: Microsoft take care of all system updates and patching so that the service is always up to date and running smoothly. Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to minimise issues and disruptions. This frees up SHS IS resources to focus on proactive business projects.
Future benefits: In the future new more flexible ways of accessing email will become available, alongside exciting new features
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across 900 Mailboxes) to Exchange Online and are now in the next phase of migrating 3V into the Group Email System. Standard Brands (Castlebellingham) and BPS migrations are also in the pipeline. Once completed this will deliver one address book/calendar sharing across SHS Group and the foundations for a full Office 365 Rollout.
What are the benefits?
Joined up: The new solution will enable us to deliver a strategic goal of having all SHS Group employees, including British Pepper and Spice, 3V and Standard Brands,
We have already completed a 6 month project to upgrade key integration components of our Exchange Email system to enable us to link seamlessly to the Microsoft Exchange Online Cloud service and moved all of our Exchange Email mailboxes off our on-premise servers to the Microsoft Exchange Online Cloud servers.
Group IS having completed the migration of all SHS Core users (over 36 million individual emails
on a single email solution with shared calendaring and employee look-up.
Reliable: As a cloud-based service, Microsoft Exchange Online email is hosted on multiple servers that support multiple customers simultaneously. Overall the service provides a guaranteed 99.9% uptime. In addition we have procured a complimentary cloud backup and recovery solution to ensure that email data is never lost.
Secure: Exchange Online accounts come with security measures that prevent hackers from gaining control of your account. A team
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