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Do Office 365 Government E1/E3 licenses include ability to enable PowerApps/Flow on tenant?
Brian,
Having a hard time finding anything from MS about the government release date other than what you mention here. Does your comment mean that we could enable it even though it's in process? Certainly haven't found anything to that effect. Can you point me in a direction? We echo earlier posts that this capability is wanted/needed.
We keep hitting roadblocks with sharepoint that Flow would solve. Any update on the government rollout?
So yeah any update? it's March 2018 already.
Just found this update, dated March 8:
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Finally, we are excited to announce Microsoft will offer Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Government Community Cloud (GCC) High in 4th quarter (Q4) of calendar year 2018. This will support the requirements of the DoD, as well as contractors holding, or processing DoD controlled unclassified information or subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The Dynamics 365 GCC High environment will provide support for the DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide for information up to Impact Level 4. Dynamics 365 GCC and GCC High will offer up to FedRAMP High. These Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement investments are a component of Microsoft’s applications platform that also includes Power BI, PowerApps, Flow, Steam and the Common Data Service—these services power the extensibility of Dynamics 365 and for all of Office 365. This platform empowers customers to easily customize, develop, and deploy applications that work online and offline, for consumption on mobile devices and the web, without the need to write code. Power BI is currently available in GCC and GCC High. Power Apps, Flow, Stream and the Common Data Service will be available in GCC 2018 Q4.
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From: https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-us/articles/industries/government/government-it-modernization-reaches-tipping-point/ (enterprise.microsoft.com)
Ugh, fourth quarter. That's a long time to wait, especially since in mid-2017 it was going to be "At the end of 2017." Looks like it's taking over two years to get it into production!
Is there any way for Government Plan subscribers to opt-in and NOT wait for the compliance certification?
No there isn't. If you need GCC for other reasons, you are stuck using O365 from 2 years ago, for all intents and purposes. Microsoft doesn't seem to care or they'd be in a bigger rush to roll out feature parity sooner; they know no one is going to leave over such a minor matter.
There's also no roadmap for moving off GCC to regular E1/E3 just in case anyone wonders -- it's a complete new implementation from scratch. We asked about it, since our reseller screwed up and assumed we wanted GCC since we're eligible as a SLG. Thanks a bunch...
