Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 17, 2023

We have added capabilities like data loss prevention (DLP) for documents and emails, Office messaging encryption, and attack surface reduction capabilities. If you’re a Microsoft 365 Government customer and have questions about your licensing plans, please reach out to your Microsoft account team or partner for support.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For more information, please visit this documentation. For additional information on configuring transcription and captions for Teams meetings, please visit this documentation. The platform Jamf Pro’s Conditional Access feature is built on will no longer be supported after September 1, 2024. This setting is OFF by default.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In 2024, the task shifted to setting formal policy. “I For example, an automation could enter invoices into the accounting system rather than people typing them in by hand. Because digital records often contain multiple copies of documents, including outdated versions, Barker estimates that only about half that data is unique.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Implications for businesses and consumers AI-enabled businesses must now navigate a compliance landscape that demands transparency, accountability, and risk management. These include providing comprehensive technical documentation, disclosing training data summaries, and implementing robust cybersecurity measures.

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

However, Erate (aka USAC) has reviewers that “check the information on your form for completeness and accuracy and may have additional questions for you to answer” (USAC, 2024). Every Form 471 application is reviewed, and it is expected to receive follow-up documentation. The rule is to keep all Erate-related information for ten years!

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 15, 2025

AI for large-scale traveller screening: precision meets scale According to the latest World Tourism Barometer by UN Tourism, around 790 million tourists travelled internationally in the first seven months of 2024. (1) These solutions contribute to simplifying and streamlining the end-to-end process by prioritising convenience and ease of use.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Unveiled at Public Sector Partner Connect 2024 , this enhanced program – under the Partner Advantage Program umbrella – introduces several new initiatives focused on accelerating growth, fostering deeper collaboration, and maximizing profitability for our valued partners.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Imagine working on sensitive documents in a public space, only to have prying eyes catch a glimpse of confidential information. The growing need for on-screen privacy The public sector handles a vast amount of sensitive information, ranging from personal data to classified documents.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

In March 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo that provides more specific directions to agencies for compliance with the guidance outlined in the executive order. By using these capabilities, agencies can proactively identify and mitigate potential biases, fostering trust and accountability in their AI systems.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

We're thrilled to announce the upcoming Oct 2024 anticipated General Availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC, subject to US Government authorization. Documentation on admin controls will be provided by GA. With web grounding OFF, Copilot will not query the web to get live real-time web content.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

On October 24, 2024, the White House released a National Security Memorandum (NSM) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) , which focuses on ensuring US leadership in developing advanced AI technologies. In February 2024, AWS announced a collaboration with the U.S. within Palantir’s secure AI Platform hosted on AWS.

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 18, 2023

An interagency Overview document and a brief Fact Sheet help break down broadly what’s contained in the nearly 1,500 page Final Rule. The Final Rule will take effect on April 1, 2024, with staggered bank compliance dates beginning in 2026. At award closeout: A report of the final amount spent on these costs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

The national framework for the assurance of AI in government The framework, released June 21, 2024, is a joint approach by the Australian federal, state, and territory governments to ensure the safe and responsible use of AI in the public sector. Cloud solutions can offer major environmental benefits with specialised data centres.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Scammers are creating more credible schemes to convince victims to part with their money, generating more realistic data trails and documentation to cover their tracks, and facilitating the movement and laundering of fraud proceeds. No targets have been spared, from individuals to large corporations and public bodies.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Frauds evolution: From quill pens to sunken cargo to cryptocurrencies, NFTs and QR codes Once upon a time, fraud was pretty straightforward: deliberately sinking a cargo ship and claiming for the loss, faking documents, or misappropriating funds. But the digital age has taken fraud to a whole new level.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 20, 2023

PowerShell Cmdlets documentation for custom list templates is available here. Public facing documentation for creating custom list templates can be found here. For more details, please visit the customization guidance documentation. For additional information, please visit this documentation.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

I came to know of the Newberry Library through one of my readers, who mentioned that they admired the Newberry’s Instagram account. Indeed, it’s a history and book lovers’ dream, with lots of photos and videos featuring historic books, albums, documents, and more.

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Microsoft Public Sector

APRIL 20, 2023

Second, we’ve also introduced Business Chat that works across all Microsoft 365 apps and data in real-time: user’s calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and contacts. As these services become more broadly available, we will be providing admins with an advance notice and technical documentation about available controls and policies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In some cases, the networks must be disconnected, and documentation done by hand. To enhance safe data processing, Kite Consult used the FHIR Works on AWS (replaced by AWS HealthLake in 2024) as a framework to deploy a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) server on AWS.

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

MAY 30, 2024

According to Atlassian (2024), project design is the process of planning a project’s objectives, structure, tasks, and deliverables and deciding on the definition of done. When seeking grants, transparency in budgeting demonstrates accountability and professionalism and fosters trust with grantmakers. Resources Atlassian (2024).

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The State Department, for example, recently began using AI and machine-learning technologies to declassify documents, and process and track Freedom of Information Act requests. At the Patent and Trademark Office, one of our 2024 Service to America Medals® winners developed a suite of AI tools to help examiners review patent applications.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Agencies must promote accountability, which means being open and honest. Document AI methodologies and practices to facilitate audits and demonstrate compliance. “Establish stringent security measures to safeguard sensitive information and comply with relevant regulations.”

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GovLoop

AUGUST 26, 2024

Prior to COVID-19, said Matthew Rose, Industry Principal, Global Public Sector, of Snowflake, the Government Accountability Office reported that some federal systems were as much as 60 years old. AI agents can focus on just one function, such as improving prompts, researching an answer or editing a document.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 21, 2023

When this will happen: We will begin rolling out this change in mid-August 2023 and expect to complete by late March 2024. Consider updating documentation as appropriate. For more information, please visit this documentation. What actions do I need to take? No further action is required from your end currently.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 19, 2024

When this will happen: Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-August 2024 and expect to complete by mid-August 2024. General Availability (Worldwide, DoD, GCC High, GCC): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by early September 2024.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Introduction The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) 1 published its “Report on Nonbank Mortgage Servicing 2024” 2 (the Report) earlier this year. This nearly-50-page document concluded that nonbank mortgage servicers (NMSs) collectively are a potential threat to financial stability. government.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Understanding Compliance Between Commercial, Government, DoD & Secret Offerings - Sept 2024 Update This article is the second of a series in the Microsoft Tech Community Public Sector Blog and touches on several key principles for compliance, including data residency versus data sovereignty. No admin action is required.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete by early October 2024. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation. Before rollout, we will update this post with revised documentation.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

From existing library: this experience will allow you to choose any document library from a site you have access to, and replicate the structure, formatting, metadata and content types in a new document library. What you need to do to prepare: Consider educating users that there are now more ways to create a Document Library.

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GovLoop

APRIL 3, 2024

A Government Accountability Office study regarding the Department of Defense recommended answering these questions up front: Who is included in the AI workforce? To learn more about AI’s transformative impact in government and prospects for 2024, download the guide here: Get the guide Photo by Vojtech Okenka at pexels.com Favorite

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 17, 2023

What you need to do to prepare: If you have users configured with phone numbers with the extensions, to prevent calls not being matched to the intended user, please ensure that dialed numbers from Teams users and incoming PSTN calls are formatted to exactly match the full phone number configured on the user accounts.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

According to the MarketLinks blog, Sustainable Public Procurement and the Business Environment , “taxpayers around the world are increasingly holding governments accountable to spend public funds for their social and economic benefit in a sustainable manner. 2024 issue of Government Procurement. However, just 22.3

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 22, 2023

How this will affect your organization: As described in this documentation , the SharedWith and SharedWithDetails column do not accurately reflect the permissions and people who have access to an item. When this will happen: Starting April 2nd, 2024, SharePoint 2013 workflows will be turned off for any newly created tenants.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). 25 See Bankrate, January 3, 2024. ” See [link].

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

1 See “Down Payment Assistance Programs & Grants by State 2024,” [link]. 4 See National Association of Realtors Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, with respect to 2023, [link] and its predecessor documents for the previous nine years. ” April 1, 2024. 2 Median household income (see [link] ) increased by 8.6

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When this will happen: We will begin rolling out this change in early October 2023 (previously mid-September) and expect to complete by late March 2024. Current users have access to their accounts via Power BI for the Web and can switch to this option any time prior to retirement.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Lock-in concerns AWS waived data transfer out (DTO) charges (when customers want to move data outside of AWS) starting March 5, 2024. AWS will review DTO fee waiver requests at the account level. Customers don’t need to close their accounts or change their relationship with AWS. What’s next?

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