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The features listed in this topic are a collection of web-based tools that help you collaborate and communicate securely across many devices and multiple Office 365 services. These features help make new connections within your organization by unifying digital content creation, storage, and management with social tools for discovering and sharing information between users.

Delve

Delve lets users search for and discover content across Microsoft 365 based on personalized insights. Delve is the first experience to be powered by Office Graph. To learn more about Delve, go to What is Delve?.

Microsoft Briefing email

The Briefing email helps users make the most of each day by helping them:

• Prepare for meetings by showing related tasks or relevant documents.
• Manage tasks identified from email that might be pending.
• Make the most of focus time by booking time on the calendar and muting notifications.

Briefing email is provided automatically to all users of Exchange Online. To learn more, see the Briefing email overview.

Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate allows you to automate workflows across applications. You can use Flow to connect email and IM alerts, synchronize files between applications, copy files from one service to another, collect data from one app and store it in another, and more. Templates are available to get you started. To learn more about Flow capabilities and how to use them, go to the Power Automate website.

Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Forms allows you to quickly and easily create custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations, and more. When you create a quiz or form, you can invite others to respond to it using any web browser, even on mobile devices. As results are submitted, you can use built-in analytics to evaluate responses. Forms data, such as quiz results, can be easily exported to Excel for additional analysis or grading. To learn more, see What is Microsoft Forms?.

Microsoft Graph API

Use the Microsoft Graph API to quickly build apps that connect to a wealth of resources, relationships, and intelligence, all through a single endpoint: https://graph.microsoft.com. For example, you can build custom dashboards, workflows, and apps that retrieve data for your organization. For more information, see the Microsoft Graph documentation.

Microsoft Lists

Microsoft Lists is a Microsoft 365 app that helps you track information and organize work. Lists are simple, smart, and flexible, so you can stay on top of what matters most to your team. Track issues, assets, routines, contacts, inventory, and more using customizable views and smart rules to keep everyone notified and in sync. With ready-made templates, you can quickly start lists online, on our new mobile app, or within Microsoft Teams. As it’s part of Microsoft 365, you can rely on enterprise-ready security and compliance.

For more information, see:

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Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Planner is a tool that gives users a visual way to organize teamwork. Teams can create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what they're working on, set due dates, and update status. Microsoft Planner also offers the ability to associate documents with specific tasks, edit them together, and have conversations around tasks. To learn more, see Introducing Microsoft Planner. Planner is not yet available in Office 365 Germany.

Microsoft Power Apps

Microsoft Power Apps is an enterprise service that helps you quickly build, integrate, and share apps that work on any device. Power Apps lets you use built-in connections or those built by your company to connect your app to cloud and on-premises services, including Microsoft 365 and Office 365, Dynamics CRM, OneDrive, SharePoint, SQL Server, Oracle databases, and more. You can easily share your Power Apps with coworkers by typing an email address. To learn more, go to the Microsoft Power Apps website.

Microsoft Stream

Microsoft Stream is an enterprise video service that people in your organization can use to upload, view, and share videos securely. You can share recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, training sessions, or other videos that aid your team's collaboration. Microsoft Stream also makes it easy to share comments on a video and tag time codes in comments and descriptions to refer to specific points in a video.

Microsoft Sway

Microsoft Sway is a professional digital storytelling app for business that helps you and your colleagues express ideas using an interactive, web-based canvas. Microsoft Sway's built-in design engine helps you produce professional, visually appealing reports, presentations, and more without the need for extensive formatting or additional training. You can also modify the results to get the unique look and feel you want. Microsoft Sway makes your creation look great in any browser on any screen, and it can be shared with colleagues and customers by sending a link. Microsoft Sway helps you find and pull together all sorts of content without leaving the app, so you can drag and drop your images, text, videos, and charts right on to your canvas. To learn more, see Sway. Microsoft Sway is not yet available in Office 365 Germany.

Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise

Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise is the always up-to-date suite of desktop apps you already know (including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Teams) available as a subscription. Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise includes exclusive intelligent capabilities like Ideas in Excel, Researcher in Word, real-time collaboration, Teams as the hub for teamwork, and advanced security features. As a user-based license, you can deploy Office on up to five PCs or Macs, five tablets, and five mobile devices. With 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage, you can access and collaborate on your files from anywhere.

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Microsoft 365 Groups

Groups in Microsoft 365 connects users with the colleagues, information, and applications they need to get more done together. Groups are open by default to enhance discoverability and sharing, but users can also create private groups for sensitive content. To learn more about groups, see Groups in Microsoft 365. For information about group limits, see 'How do I manage my groups' in Learn about Microsoft 365 groups.

Microsoft Kaizala

Microsoft Kaizala is a simple and secure mobile work management app, bringing unique capabilities to Microsoft 365, with its ability to connect and engage people both inside and outside of an organization’s directory – including contract workers, vendors, partners, suppliers, customers, and citizens – using large and flexible group types. Kaizala’s open directory model enables phone number-based identity for easy onboarding, and a simple user experience for messaging and work management. The Kaizala mobile app lets users send instant messages and attachments such as pictures, documents, videos, audio files, and more as well as use action cards for surveys, polls, job assignments, announcements, trainings and more. Kaizala works on iPhone and Android. To learn more, go to the Kaizala website.

Office 365 Video

Office 365 Video is a secure, company-wide destination where you can upload, share, and discover videos across your devices—powered by Microsoft Azure Media Services. Office 365 Video can help keep viewers engaged and informed, to communicate ideas broadly, and for organizations to be in unison. To learn more, see Introducing Office 365 Video.

OneNote Class Notebook

Class Notebook is part of OneNote and is available for Office 365 Education and Office 365 E5 Education. Each notebook includes a Content Library for teachers to share course content, a Collaboration Space where teachers and students can work together, and a private notebook for each student. After a Class Notebook is created, teachers and students can use the OneNote app to access it from any device.

To Do

Microsoft To Do is a task management application that allows customers to plan their day and manage their tasks – across work and life – from any device.

With Microsoft To Do, customers can:

• Sync their tasks across Outlook, Teams, Planner, and more
• Stay focused with My Day, a personalized daily planner with suggested tasks
• Get their lists anywhere, on any device or platform
• Share lists and assign tasks with colleagues, friends, and family

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To learn more, see: To Do

Whiteboard

Microsoft Whiteboard is a freeform, digital canvas where people, content, and ideas come together. You can use Whiteboard for collaborating with your team to accomplish many activities — whether your team is in the same place or in multiple locations. Team members can work collaboratively using their own devices.

For more information about Microsoft Whiteboard, see Digital Online Whiteboard App - Microsoft Whiteboard.

Feature availability

To view feature availability across plans, see Microsoft 365 and Office 365 platform service description.

Important

Microsoft Teams is experiencing a tremendous spike in online calls and audio/video conferencing due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

In response to the unprecedented increase in calls, and to ensure continuity and availability, Microsoft is allowing Microsoft Teams GCC audio/video servers to leverage processing capacity in our commercial datacenters, as well as in our government datacenters.

These audio/video servers reside within the Microsoft Azure FedRAMP High accreditation boundary servers in the United States and do not store any customer content. However, these servers are processing audio and video for calls and conferences and are operating under our commercial staff during this interim period.

Qualified, screened personnel are monitoring these servers for potential access to customer data by reviewing any interactive log-ons to these servers. Qualified personnel meet GCC requirements for access to customer content. For details about screening requirements, see the GCC service description.

Thank you for your support as we take steps to ensure that our services remain available and reliable in these extraordinary times.

In response to the unique and evolving requirements of the United States public sector, Microsoft has created Office 365 Government plans (or Office 365 Government). This service description provides an overview of features that are specific to Office 365 Government US environments. We recommend that you read this service description alongside other Microsoft 365 and Office 365 service descriptions.

How to use this service description

The Office 365 Government service description is designed to serve as an overlay to the general Office 365 service description. It defines the unique commitments and differences compared to Office 365 Enterprise offerings.

About Office 365 Government environments

Office 365 Government plans are monthly subscriptions and can be licensed to an unlimited number of users.

• The Office 365 GCC environment provides compliance with Federal requirements for cloud services, including FedRAMP High, and requirements for criminal justice and federal tax information systems (CJI and FTI data types).

• The Office 365 GCC High and DoD environments deliver compliance with Department of Defense Security Requirements Guidelines, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement (DFARS), and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

In addition to the features and capabilities of Office 365, the organizations that use Office 365 Government benefit from the following features unique to Office 365 Government:

• Your organization's customer content is logically segregated from customer content in Microsoft's commercial Office 365 Services.

• Your organization's customer content is stored within the United States.

• Access to your organization's customer content is restricted to screened Microsoft personnel.

• Office 365 Government complies with certifications and accreditations that are required for US Public Sector customers.

Customer eligibility

Office 365 Government is available to (1) US federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government entities, and (2) other entities that handle data that is subject to government regulations and requirements and where use of Office 365 Government is appropriate to meet these requirements, subject to validation of eligibility. Validation of eligibility by Microsoft will include confirmation of handling data subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), law enforcement data subject to the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Policy, or other government-regulated or controlled data. Validation may require proof of registration with the U.S. Department of State for ITAR data or sponsorship by a government entity with specific requirements for the handling of data. The Office 365 DoD environment is for the exclusive use of the United States Department of Defense.

While eligibility criteria are consistent across Office 365 Government offerings, Microsoft will only agree to DFARS and ITAR contract language for the GCC High environment.

Entities with questions about eligibility for Office 365 Government should consult their account team.

Upon renewal of a customer's contract for Office 365 Government, revalidation of eligibility is required.

Customer content located within the United States

Office 365 Government services are provided from datacenters physically located in the United States. The following customer content is stored at rest in datacenters physically located only in the U.S.A.:

• Exchange Online mailbox content (email bodies, calendar entries, and the content of e-mail attachments)

• SharePoint Online site content and the files stored within that site

• Skype for Business archived conversations, uploaded documents, and whiteboarding sessions

• Microsoft Teams persistent chat threads

Note

With typical use, Skype for Business does not store customer content, but if such storage occurs, it will be stored in datacenters in the U.S.A.

If your users are located within the U.S.A. while using Office for the web (formerly known as Office Web Apps) or if you adopt the use of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 and set up policies to help ensure your users connect to the services through single sign-on, any customer content that is temporarily cached in Office for the web will be located in the U.S.A.

The Site usage page for SharePoint sites is available for government plans, though per compliance, there are some features of this page that are only available to commercial customers. To learn more, see Site usage page for SharePoint sites in Microsoft 365.

Office 365 Government and third-party services

Office 365 provides the ability to integrate third-party applications into SharePoint Online sites, Skype for Business, Office applications included in Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), and Outlook Web App. In addition, Office 365 supports integration with third-party service providers. These third-party applications and services might involve storing, transmitting, and processing your organization's customer data on third-party systems that are outside of the Office 365 infrastructure and therefore are not covered by the Office 365 compliance and data protection commitments. It is recommended that you review the privacy and compliance statements provided by the third parties when assessing the appropriate use of these services for your organization.

Restricted data access by administrators

Access to Office 365 Government customer content by Microsoft administrators is restricted to screened personnel. For screening levels details, refer to the service description page for each respective environment (GCC or GCC High and DoD).

FastTrack Center onboarding assistance

With the FastTrack Center Benefit for Office 365¹, you work remotely with FastTrack Specialists to get your Office 365 environment ready for use and plan rollout and usage within your organization. The FastTrack process provides onboarding and user adoption services.

Onboarding consists of:

• Core onboarding - These are tasks required for tenant configuration and integration with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) if needed. Core onboarding also provides the baseline for onboarding other eligible services.

• Service onboarding and migration - Service onboarding tasks enable scenarios in your tenant. Data migration (including email and files) is covered in Data Migration.²

User adoption services are composed of tasks that provide guidance for you to ensure your users are aware of the eligible services and can use them to drive business value. This assistance occurs in parallel to onboarding activities.

Specific information on the FastTrack Center process can be found here. For a breakdown of engagement roles and responsibilities, review FastTrack Responsibilities as well as Your Responsibilities.

¹ You must purchase at least 50 licenses from the list of the eligible plans to receive FastTrack services.
² Data Migration services are available to Office 365 tenants with 500 or more licenses.

Data migrations performed by FastTrack

Customers who choose the FastTrack migration benefit will need to grant access to the team managing their data migrations. These personnel are US citizens and undergo the following background checks before performing migrations for customers of Office 365 US Government services.

Office 365 US Government and Azure Government ExpressRoute

Office 365 US Government customers can use Azure Government ExpressRoute services to connect privately to supported Office 365 services instead of connecting over the public internet.

For details, such as supported providers, pricing models, and more, review the Azure ExpressRoute information.

For details on Office 365 support for Azure ExpressRoute, see Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365

System requirements

For system requirements for Office 365 US Government plans, see System requirements for Office on the office.com products site.

Security & Compliance Center

For information about the Security & Compliance Center and links to additional information and availability, see Security & Compliance Center.

Service availability for each plan

Each Office 365 plan includes a number of individual services, such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. The following table shows the services that are available in each Office 365 US Government plan.

¹ Skype for Business Basic is available for all customers. The Skype for Business desktop client is a locally installed application that provides presence, instant messaging, and conferencing features for Office 365 plans that include Skype for Business Online. Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, G3, and G5 include the full Skype application, which includes additional features such as advanced telephony support, archiving, and compliance features. A Skype for Business Online license must be assigned for each user.
² Not included but can be purchased as a separate add-on. Project Online includes Project Online Desktop Client as a part of the subscription.
³ Not yet available in GCC High or DoD plans, but coming soon.
⁴ Yammer Enterprise is not a component of Office 365 US Government, but may be acquired at no cost as a standalone offer for each user licensed for Office 365 in GCC. This offer is currently limited to customers that purchase Office 365 GCC under Enterprise Agreements and Enterprise Subscription Agreements. Yammer is not available in GCC High or DoD.
⁵ Calling Plan is an add-on.
⁶ Not included but can be purchased as a separate add-on. Visio for the web includes the Visio desktop app as a part of the subscription.

Platform features

The following table lists the platform features and services that are available across the Office 365 US Government plans.

¹ Azure Information Protection is not included, but can be purchased as a separate add-on and will enable the supported Information Rights Management (IRM) features. Some Azure Information Protection features require a subscription to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, which is not included with Office 365 Government G1 or Office 365 Government F3. >
² Existing BBCS and BIS customers can continue use of the service. New customers are not being accepted.
³ If using directory synchronization, you must delete accounts or change passwords by using Active Directory, rather than the Office 365 portal or by using the Azure Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell.
⁴ If using password synchronization, users must change their passwords in the local Active Directory.
⁵ To learn how to set self-service password management policies for users, see Manage Passwords in Azure AD.
⁶ You can have only one public website with Office 365, unless you've upgraded from an earlier version of Office 365. In that case, you have two public websites, but only one of them can be hosted with a custom domain name. For more information about working with the two websites for Business subscriptions, see Work with your two Office 365 public websites. If you have a different subscription, learn more about public websites at Learn about partner website hosting and public websites in Office 365.
⁷ Reducing seats that were purchased with a term discount may be subject to an early termination fee. This is not applicable to subscriptions paid on a monthly basis.
⁸ The following plans do not support license seat changes from the Microsoft 365 admin center: Office 365 Government G1, Office 365 Government G3, Office 365 Government F3.
⁹ Not yet available in GCC High, but coming soon.
¹⁰ For Office 365 Government G1, G3, and F3, Targeted release and the Office 365 for business roadmap apply; however, there may be some differences or delays for specific service updates due to compliance requirements.
¹¹ Not yet available in Office 365 Government offerings, but coming soon.
¹² Not included, but can be purchased as a separate add-on in GCC.
¹³ Not supported for Office 365 Government offerings.
¹⁴ Available at https://securescore.office.com. Requires admin permissions. For more information, see Introducing the Office 365 Secure Score.).
¹⁵ Not yet available in DoD environment, but coming soon.
¹⁶ Admin center does not include usage analytics in DoD or GCC High environments.
¹⁷ Not supported for GCC High or DoD environments.
¹⁸ Anti-phishing for user and domain impersonation and spoof intelligence are not yet available in GCC High and DoD.
¹⁹ Not yet available in GCC environment, but coming soon.
²⁰ Consumption only for Microsoft Stream: no publishing or sharing.
²¹ Not available for the Microsoft Graph API or Microsoft Teams.

Office application availability and enterprise value

The following table shows the Office application features that are available across Office 365 US Government plans.

¹ Azure Information Protection is not included, but can be purchased as a separate add-on and will enable the supported Information Rights Management (IRM) features. Some Azure Information Protection features require a subscription to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, which is not included with Office 365 Government G1 or Office 365 Government F3.
² Windows Server AD RMS is an on-premises server that must be purchased and managed separately to enable the supported IRM features.
³ Skype for Business Basic is available for all customers. The Skype for Business desktop client is a locally installed application that provides presence, instant messaging, and conferencing features for Office 365 plans that include Skype for Business Online. Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, and Office 365 Enterprise E3 include the full Skype application, which includes additional features such as advanced telephony support, archiving, and compliance features. A Skype for Business Online license must be assigned for each user. For more information on Lync Basic features, see Skype for Business Online client comparison tables.
⁴ Not yet available in GCC High or DoD environments, but coming soon.
⁵ See Using Outlook for iOS and Android in the Government Community Cloud for more details.
⁶ Not yet available in Office 365 DoD environment, but coming soon.
⁷ Applications are fully available in the government clouds, with the exception of the specific features not available at this time. See Office application feature availability for details.

Office application and feature availability in Government plans

The following Office applications are available in the government clouds; however, some cloud-based capabilities may not be currently available, as indicated in the table.

For feature availability for Microsoft Teams within GCC/GCC High/DoD, please visit the Microsoft Teams service description.

¹ Availability forthcoming.
² Availability on local Surface Hub (not signed in).
³ External sharing is available for the GCC environment. Learn more about how to turn off or turn on Microsoft Forms for your organization. External sharing is disabled for GCC High and DOD environments; users within your organization may do the following: complete a form and submit responses, duplicate and share a form as a template, co-author or collaborate on a form, and access form results.
⁴ Recent group forms feature is disabled for the GCC environment. Users, however, can still access group forms by selecting a specific group on the Group forms tab.
⁵ Word, Excel PowerPoint Windows client only, not web, MacOS, iOS or Android.