#M365GovCommunityCall February 2022: Power Platform for Government with Patrick Doran

This month, Patrick Doran from the North Carolina Department of Information Technology (SwearPointJS on Twitter) joins the panel to discuss practical applications of the Power Platform for to support Government Missions.

Government Community Events

• Feb 9: DC Power Platform UG
• Feb 10: SharePoint User Group of DC
• Feb 15 & 16: Teams Apps Acceleration for Government (TAAG) Team's Introduction to Dataverse for GCC, GCC-H, and DOD
• Feb 17: Federal Business Applications Webinar
• Feb 23: Azure Government Meetup "Zero to 60: Accelerate your speed to cloud"
• March 3: NARA Microsoft 365 User Group
• March 9: DC Power Platform UG "Learning Styles and how to apply them to CRM /CE training" with Heidi Neuhauser
• March 10: SharePoint User Group of DC
• March 22-23: CMMC Industry Days and Modern Information Security Topics

In the News

• Microsoft Sentinel: Maturity Model for Event Log Management

• January 22 Public Sector Newsletter

• Securing Critical Infrastructure with Microsoft Sentinel & Microsoft Defender for IoT

• Helping Federal organizations achieve CDM requirements

• Basics of CMMC 2.0

• Gartner names MSFT a leader in 2022 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving

• Lists vs Planner - why Lists is better for compliance 

• Microsoft Information Governance in M365

Roadmap Update

During today's broadcast we covered the below topics, as found on the Microsoft Roadmap by filtering for the DOD, GCC-High, and GCC cloud instances:

• Microsoft Teams - Pin chat messages to drive awareness and quick access - FEB 2022, GCC
• OneDrive and SharePoint Library Dropdown - FEB 2022, GCC, GCC High, DoD
• Power Apps - updated to show images from Microsoft Lists in an image control - FEB 2022, GCC, GCC High, DoD
• Compliance Center - Automated testing and documentation of scored actions where you can view or download evidence - FEB 2022, GCC, GCC High, DoD
• Compliance Center - Scoped retention policies will allow the use of AD attributes to drive applying retention labels - FEB 2022, GCC, GCC High, DoD
• Microsoft Teams - local time will be added to a user's profile so you know what time it is for them - FEB 2022, GCC, GCC High, DoD
• Microsoft Excel - add hyperlinks in modern comments - FEB 2022, GCC, GCC High, DoD
• Compliance Center - Discover usage of Teams reactions (heart, thumbs up, etc.) in Advanced eDiscovery - FEB 2022, GCC, GCC High, DoD