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Planner Notification for Task Assignment
I was wondering why in the GCC Planner app the option to receive a notification (email, Teams, mobile push) when "someone assigns a task to me" is not available? And when might we expect to see that feature arrive? It would be really nice to have this capability as I'm managing many projects in Planner, but I have to manually notify people when I assign them a task. Thanks.Welcome to the Office 365 & Gov AMA!
We are very excited to kick of this hour of live Q&A on everything Office 365 and US Government! Please submit your questions as a new thread in the Gov AMA group. so we can easily identify and answer them. You can identify official Microsoft responders by the blue circle around their profile avatar. If this is your first AMA, review the AMA Guide here. After the event, we will make a summary of the AMA and share it in the community. To get started, please introduce yourself below along with where you are joining us from!
Win32 Content Prep tool doesn't work with FIPS mode
This issue on GitHub has been languishing unacknowledged for the past three years. Since the elder days of yore, the Win32 Content Prep tool - the only option for deploying non-MSI applications through Intune - has been unable to operate on and endpoint which has been FIPSed. This process has caused much consternation among those of us who must, by reason of government directive, FIPS ourselves and our endpoints for the security of the nation. I would humbly beseech those who create the great and powerful content prep tool to update it with support for FIPS so that those of us who wish to use it can do so. GitHub Reference Link Error for Windows Platform FIPS · Issue #33 · microsoft/Microsoft-Win32-Content-Prep-Tool (github.com)Demystifying data sovereignty and residency
When choosing the cloud service for your public sector organization, it is important to be aware of the implications of sovereignty and residency for controlled unclassified data. In this Ignite DC for Government session, we provide an overview of the Microsoft 365 Government clouds, assumptions, and considerations needed when determining how to best maintain your digital transformation. Watch it here: Demystifying data sovereignty and residency
Colloboration in the Public Sector, Local/State Government - and introduction
Hi All. My name is Adam Levithan. I'm a recent MVP in Office Services and Servers and I've been working with Public Sector, Local/State Government customers for over 10 years. I'm located in the center of the public sector, Washington DC and hear a lot of the opportunities with transitioning between versions of products, and certainly to the cloud. What are some key questions you have?Slow to receive new features
I think one of my biggest pain points with Office 365 is the slowness in which a Government tenant receives updates. For example, Sway was announced in October 2014 and Planner was announced in December 2015 and neither has shown up for my tenant. The other day my boss saw mention of Microsoft Teams in news media and was excited and wanted to know when we would have access. I had to tell him that it can be years before our tenant receives a feature, even though we are paying for it.
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