February 2024 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter
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Release News

 

 

Teams

 

Meeting organizers can now see time-zone information of participants while scheduling a meeting

 

Share contact information of people in Microsoft Teams chat

 

Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status – GCC February, GCCH & DoD March

 

Mute On Air

 

External call routing settings - GCC & GCCH

 

Ability to block users from joining externally hosted Teams meetings

 

Privacy link in Teams meeting join flow changing to organization's privacy statement

 

Meeting invite improvements

 

Preset Organizational Backgrounds (Premium)

 

Hide General channel

 

Sharepoint Online

 

Microsoft 365 Admin Center will have a new role called Migration Administrator - GCC

 

Exchange Online

 

Address List Changes for Outlook and OWA

 

Hybrid Configuration Wizard with granular configuration

 

Defender

 

Unified RBAC for Defender XDR – GCC December, GCCH & DoD Q1 2024

 

Purview

 

Offensive Language trainable classifier being retired – January 15, 2024

 

Microsoft 365

 

Microsoft Forms supports live data sync to Excel -Preview

 

Modern Translator service update in Microsoft 365

 

Newsworthy Highlights

 

Microsoft 365 Government Community Call

Join Jay Leask and other members of the Government Community live on LinkedIn!

 

Where to Start with Microsoft Teams Apps in Gov Clouds

Customers in our Office 365 government clouds, GCC, GCCH, and DoD, are continuing to evolve how they do business in the hybrid workplace. As Microsoft Teams is the primary tool for communication and collaboration, customers are looking to improve productivity by integrating their business processes directly into Microsoft Teams via third-party party (3P) applications or line-of-business (LOB)/homegrown application integrations.

 

Microsoft 365 Government Adoption Resources

Empowering US public sector organizations to transition to Microsoft 365

 

References and Information Resources

 

Microsoft 365 Public Roadmap
This link is filtered to show GCC, GCC High and DOD specific items.  For more general information uncheck these boxes under “Cloud Instance”.

 

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Your community for discussion surrounding the public sector, local and state governments.

 

Microsoft 365 for US Government Service Descriptions

·     Office 365 Platform (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     Office 365 U.S. Government GCC High endpoints

·     Office 365 U.S. Government DoD endpoints

 

·     Microsoft Purview (GCCGCCHDoD)

·     Enterprise Mobility & Security (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Security (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     Microsoft Defender for Identity Security (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     Azure Information Protection Premium

 

·     Exchange Online (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     SharePoint (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     OneDrive (GCC, GCCH, DoD) 

·     Teams (GCCGCCHDoD)

 

·     Office 365 Government (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     Power Apps (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     Power Automate US Government (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     Power BI (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     Planner (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     Outlook Mobile (GCC, GCCH, DoD)

·     Viva Insights (GCC)

·     Dynamics 365 US Government

 

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Be a Learn-it-All

 

Public Sector Center of Expertise

We bring together thought leadership and research relating to digital transformation and innovation in the public sector. We highlight the stories of public servants around the globe, while fostering a community of decision makers. Join us as we discover and share the learnings and achievements of public sector communities.

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Microsoft Teams for US Government Adoption Guide

 

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Message Center Highlights

 

Dear Readers: A recent policy review led to the decision to discontinue publishing Message Center posts on this site until further notice. Many apologies for any inconvenience. Microsoft 365 customers may contact their CSAM to inquire about receiving the content by an email version of the newsletter. They may of course view all Message Center posts in their tenant admin center as well!

 

Microsoft 365 IP and URL Endpoint Updates

 

 

Documentation - Office 365 IP Address and URL web service

 

January 30, 2024 - GCC

December 1, 2023 – GCC High

October 30, 2023 - DOD

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