Overview

• Officials say a six-month project moved more than 40,000 mailboxes and over 100 million emails and calendar entries for roughly 30,000 employees.
• Digital Minister Dirk Schrödter proclaimed email independence from big tech as "Mission erfüllt" after acknowledging outages and delays, with reports also citing server load problems and a data-protection lapse.
• Judiciary representatives told a state committee the new mail setup hampers court workflows, highlighting difficult email filing and extra steps during the concurrent rollout of electronic case files.
• The president of the Higher Regional Court said a letter to the minister prompted a task force and fixes, resulting in a stable environment for courts.
• The email shift is one step in a wider plan that removes Microsoft Office in favor of LibreOffice, replaces SharePoint with Nextcloud, adopts OpenTalk for video meetings, and ultimately moves from Windows to Linux.