References and Information Resources
Our Commitment to Customers During Crisis
Optimize Office 365 traffic for remote staff
How to quickly optimize Office 365 traffic for remote staff & reduce the load on your network infrastructure
Microsoft 365 live events assistance
Now available as a public preview. Administrators can get guidance and assistance to setup and deliver live event broadcasts from our live events support team.
Office 365 & Managing Crisis Communications
- SharePoint Look Book - Crisis Communications Template
Ready to deploy communications site configuration
- Build a crisis management site to connect people and information
Step-by-step walkthrough - Crisis Communication: a Power Platform template
The solution combines capabilities of Power Apps, Power Automate, Teams, and SharePoint. It can be used on the web, mobile or in Teams - Coordinate crisis communications using Microsoft Teams + Power Platform
Step-by-step walkthrough - Support remote workers using Microsoft Teams
Implementation Guidance for IT Admins - Free Microsoft Teams Training
No-cost instructor-led and on-demand training for Admins and End Users to help your organization adopt teams faster
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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Stay on top of Office 365 changes
Here are a few ways that you can stay on top of the Office 365 updates in your organization.
Microsoft Tech Community for Public Sector
Your community for discussion surrounding the public sector, local and state governments.
Microsoft 365 for US Government Service Descriptions
- Compliance (GCC, GCCH, DoD)
- Enterprise Mobility & Security (GCC, GCCH, DoD)
- Microsoft Defender ATP (GCCH)
- Microsoft Cloud App Security (GCCH)
- Azure ATP (GCCH)
- Azure Information Protection Premium
- Exchange Online (GCC, GCCH, DoD)
- SharePoint (GCC, GCCH, DoD)
- OneDrive (GCC, GCCH, DoD)
- Teams (GCC, GCCH, DoD)
- Office ProPlus (GCC, GCCH, DoD)
- Power Apps (GCC, GCCH, DoD)
- Power Automate (GCC, GCCH, DoD)
- Power BI (GCC, GCCH)
- Planner (GCC, GCCH, DoD)
- Outlook Mobile (GCC, GCCH, DoD)
- My Analytics (GCCH, DoD)
- Dynamics 365 US Government
Newsworthy Highlights
Remote working skilling and instruction following topics:
- Teams fundamentals: 101 training
- Teams intermediate: Advanced teams features
- AMA – Office hours: Open space for Q&A
- Smart Meetings: Using meetings in Teams to their full potential
- Live Events: Hosting events up to 10K+
- Apps: Microsoft & 3rd Party apps that be utilized in GCC
Schedule of upcoming events. Join Virtually at https://aka.ms/workremoteFED
(we will use the same links daily to host the sessions).
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Topic |
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Friday, May 1, 2020 |
10:00-11:30 |
AMA - Office Hours |
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Monday, May 4, 2020 |
10:00-11:30 |
Fundamentals |
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020 |
1:00-2:30 |
Fundamentals |
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020 |
1:00-2:30 |
Intermediate |
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Thursday, May 7, 2020 |
10:00-11:30 |
Live Events |
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Friday, May 8, 2020 |
10:00-11:30 |
AMA - Office Hours |
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Monday, May 11, 2020 |
10:00-11:30 |
Fundamentals |
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020 |
1:00-2:30 |
Fundamentals |
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020 |
1:00-2:30 |
Apps |
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Thursday, May 14, 2020 |
10:00-11:30 |
Intermediate |
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Friday, May 15, 2020 |
10:00-11:30 |
AMA - Office |
MC207190: Microsoft Forms – File Upload not available in Government environments
Delayed with no ETA
MC210713: SharePoint Designer – feature deprecation impacting Custom Form creation
An issue has been identified affecting SharePoint Designer functionality for creating custom Forms within SharePoint Online. After careful examination, we have determined that there is no known fix for this issue and have elected to disable the custom Form creation feature effective as of 3:00 AM UTC on Saturday, April 25, 2020.
This change does not impact the ability to edit previously created Forms or other existing features in SharePoint Online Designer.
MC209149: SharePoint Online – We are adding an alert for classic publishing portals that use Content Query web parts
On a classic page, the Content Query web part is a tool for finding and displaying information. However, this web part can affect page performance. Consequently, we are adding an alert for classic publishing portals that use Content Query web parts.
This affects only classic publishing portals when the Content Query web part is affecting page performance. In that case, a user who has edit rights may see a dismissible slow performance banner when the page is in draft mode.
The banner will automatically display under either of these conditions:
- If it takes >500 ms for the Content Query web part to load, or
- If the webpart is set up to be cross-list, i.e. selected the source "show items from all sites in this site collection" or "show items from the following site and all subsites"
SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) Updates
Migrate content to SharePoint Online and OneDrive from the following locations:
- SharePoint Server 2016 (Public Preview)
- SharePoint Server 2013
- SharePoint Foundation 2013
- SharePoint Server 2010
- SharePoint Foundation 2010
- Network and local file shares
Use Advisor for Teams to help you roll out Microsoft Teams
Advisor for Teams guides your team through your Microsoft Teams roll out and delivers the following key functionality :
Advisor for Teams guides your team through your Microsoft Teams roll out and delivers the following key functionality:
- Assesses your Office 365 tenant environment and identifies the most common configurations that you may need to update or modify before you can successfully roll out Teams.
- Creates a Deployment team (in Teams), with channels for each workload you want to roll out. Each workload in the Deployment team comes with a comprehensive
- Creates a Planner plan that includes all the rollout tasks for each workload. Using this Planner plan, you'll assign tasks to the people responsible for each phase of the rollout - including the project manager, Teams and Office 365 admins, support people, and your adoption and user readiness team. Each rollout task contains all the guidance and resources you need to successfully complete the task.
Disability Answer Desk is where customers with disabilities get support with Microsoft Office, Windows, and Xbox Accessibility. This includes product issues, accessibility questions, and use of assistive technology.
Public Sector Blog Spotlight
Accelerating CMMC compliance for Microsoft cloud (in depth review)
WFH With Microsoft Teams: 5 Tips for Public Sector Agencies
How to Troubleshoot Issues Modernizing SharePoint Online
Office 365 IP Endpoint and URL Latest Update
Roadmap Changes This Month
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