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Bronze Contributor

Jul 10, 2017

Unavailable Features

Edit: Only 1 and 1/2 has been delivered from the list Here are the products that are still unavailble to my organization as a Government tenant and when they were first announced. Sway: Oct. 2014 ...

Local government

Kathleen Lynch

Brass Contributor

Oct 12, 2017

I too am frustrated by the latency of release of these features to the Gov tenants...my users ask about them (or I want to deploy them) and I don't even know when we will get them.

I believe someone was trying to add Government line items to the Office Roadmap site when the deployment is delayed from regular deployment, so we could try to track release, but I am not seeing many of these itemized and not with timeframes to release. :(

But am curious as some of these I have and wanted to see if you were seeing the same now (below). And one more to keep an eye on is SharePoint Hub (introduced at Ignite). I hope that it will be released with general release, but will see.

Outlook for iOS/Android: Sept. 2016 - I have been using this for a long time with my G account (and my personal accounts too).

Communication Sites: June 2017 - this was a little slow but this IS in the tenant. But it was not where I expect to see it. As the SharePoint Global Admin, I expected to see it as a template when I build a Site Collection...but actually found them in the SharePoint > + New Site and it gave the option for Team or Communication site. So this may actually be released.

ToDo: Apr. 2017 - I think I was able to back end into this, but no, it is not formally part of the tenant.

C_the_S
Bronze Contributor
Oct 12, 2017
Outlook for iOS/Android: Sept. 2016 - I have been using this for a long time with my G account (and my personal accounts too).

Communication Sites: June 2017 - this was a little slow but this IS in the tenant. But it was not where I expect to see it. As the SharePoint Global Admin, I expected to see it as a template when I build a Site Collection...but actually found them in the SharePoint > + New Site and it gave the option for Team or Communication site. So this may actually be released.

ToDo: Apr. 2017 - I think I was able to back end into this, but no, it is not formally part of the tenant.

I too had users using the Outlook for Android/iOS app without issue, but an update to the app broke it and it has been broken ever since.
I still can't add a Communication site and can't access ToDo.

I saw an Ignite broadcast about Governement tenants and they were claiming that many of these apps will come in 2018. I'm not going to hold my breath.
One thing that really irks me is we are paying for the apps and yet they are a no show. 3 years now for Sway, and it's a presentation app!!