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Microsoft 365 Government cloud operations

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Microsoft 365 Government cloud operations

Specific operational differences when running Microsoft 365 in GCC, GCC High, or DoD government clouds.

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The clouds, briefly

Each has progressively stricter controls and more restrictions on integrations.

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URL and endpoint differences

The most immediately visible difference: different URLs:

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Feature parity

Government clouds have slower feature parity than commercial:

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App and integration limits

The government clouds have smaller third-party app catalogues:

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Cross-cloud collaboration

Cross-tenant collaboration is restricted between government clouds and commercial:

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Identity and admin

Government tenants use a separate Entra ID instance:

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Defender for government

The Defender XDR experience in government clouds:

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