The Office 365 GCC environment provides compliance with federal requirements for cloud services, including FedRAMP High, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement (DFARS), and requirements for criminal justice and federal tax information systems (CJI and FTI data types). Office 365 Government plans are monthly subscriptions and can be licensed to an unlimited number of users. It defines the unique commitments and differences compared to Office 365 Enterprise offerings.

The Office 365 Government service description is designed to serve as an overlay to the general Office 365 service description. We recommend that you read this service description alongside other Microsoft 365 and Office 365 service descriptions. This service description provides an overview of features that are specific to Office 365 Government US environments.

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). Thank you for your support as we take steps to ensure that our services remain available and reliable in these extraordinary times. For details about screening requirements, see the GCC service description. Qualified personnel meet GCC requirements for access to customer content. Qualified, screened personnel are monitoring these servers for potential access to customer data by reviewing any interactive log-ons to these servers. However, these servers are processing audio and video for calls and conferences and are operating under our commercial staff during this interim period. 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. 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. Microsoft Teams is experiencing a tremendous spike in online calls and audio/video conferencing due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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