This article summarises the different NHSmail user account statuses that are applied in the NHSmail Portal.
- Active. A user account that has been used within the last 90 days and the password has not expired.
- Inactive. A user is flagged as inactive after 90 days without activity.
- Active (Leaver). These accounts are Active but marked as a leaver and are in the 30 day leaver window after which accounts are eligible for deletion.
- Locked. An account that is locked due to too many password attempts being made by users or their devices. When an account becomes locked in AD/Exchange a background process runs to update the status to Locked in the Portal. This will set the UpdatedBy field to ‘BackgroundTasks’ in the Portal.
- Deleted. Accounts that have been deleted but can be restored as they fall within the data retention period of 180 days.
- Deleted_Permanent. Mailboxes that have been permanently deleted and cannot be restored.
- Disabled. Accounts where a Local Administrator has disabled an account in the NHSmail Portal.
- Disabled_Leaver. Those accounts that a Local Administrator has marked as a Leaver, then disabled.
- Enabling. An in progress status presented for a few seconds whilst an LA is enabling a disabled account.
- Disabling. An in progress status presented for a few seconds whilst an LA is disabling an active or inactive account.
- Deleting. An in progress status presented for a few seconds whilst the automated mailbox hygiene processes are running to delete eligible accounts.
- Restoring. An in progress status presented for a few seconds whilst an LA is restoring a deleted account.
- Pending. An in progress status presented for a few seconds whilst an LA is creating a new account.
If an account is in an Enabling, Disabling, Deleting, Restoring or Pending status for an extended period of time (e.g. more than 24 hours) Local Administrators can raise a ticket with the NHSmail National Helpdesk to resolve.
