Report for September 2020

Report Date

September 2020

Achievements in Last Period

• Change in scope and milestones (piccl 14) raised on 23 September 2020. New Microsoft policy stated that development work was no longer required for the auto-forwarding of emails

• In the same piccl funding was approved at 95d (19/20 73d; 20/21 22d)
• Sue Woodger took over as project manager on 2 October 2020
• New project meetings set up
• Meeting with Abdul Majothi , relationship manager, set up
• Communications meeting for delivery of  warning banner set up

Issues

• Noted last month that a change in Microsoft policy had recently been announced which meant that the original ITI elements of the auto-forwarding work is now deemed redundant. There is no further indication from Microsoft when this will be Live but current milestone D2.1 Block Rules to prevent Auto-Forwarding, which has a delivery date of 23 October, is likely to be missed while we await this information

Next Steps

• Agree a date with project team for delivery milestone of D2.1 Block Rules to prevent Auto-Forwarding and review milestone dates
• Consolidate plan for delivery of warning banner
• Finalise communications plan and set into action

Milestones

These milestones (apart from the warning banner) require to be revisited and re-planned

Project is AMBER

RAG Commentary

The dates relating to the block rules to prevent auto-forwarding are no longer realistic due to the new Microsoft policy regarding auto-forwarding

Impact: We have to wait on Microsoft informing that their policy is in place before we can sign off that milestone and, although not yet confirmed by Microsoft, this is expected to be in November 20

Plan: PM will re-plan this task. This will affect the projects closure date.