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Health Information & Technology is beginning the migration of UVA Health System to Microsoft 365 (M365) and is anticipating completion by the end of the year. This transformation will provide for enhanced collaboration capabilities, email rebranding, and enable us to support new UVA Health entities, such as UVA Community Health. 

How Will this Affect My Email?

This process will begin with the migration of existing mailboxes, resource room calendars, and group mailboxes to M365 Exchange Online. UVA Health customers will receive communication and instruction via email prior to their account being migrated. 

Please note:

• As your mailbox is migrated, you will now have a new primary Internet email address of <ID>@UVAHealth.org. Emails that are sent to existing @virginia.edu and @hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu addresses will continue to operate as normal. 
• Mobile devices will be switching from the native phone clients to the Outlook Mobile App for email and calendaring, which adds enhanced security and unifies the email view across different platforms. 
• Shared machine users will notice a new icon on the shared layer desktop for accessing the new feature rich version of Outlook Online. Over time, the Outlook Online version is expected to replace the full Outlook client.
• The migration to Microsoft 365 Online will also provide self-service password reset and account unlocking once you have completed an initial security registration process.

Other Collaboration Tools

As your account is migrated, you will be able to use Microsoft Teams for chat with other M365-migrated users. The Teams client can be installed on HIT Workstations as well as HIT managed mobile devices. The enhanced Teams communication deployment will replace Skype for Business functionality throughout the organization. The second phase of the migration to Microsoft 365 will include making Microsoft Teams collaboration features available. This will provide departments and projects group collaboration tools for communicating information and sharing documents.

Stay tuned for additional information!