AMITPC – February 2025 Meetup

As promised, here are the links and slide decks for the topics covered during the Adelaide Microsoft IT Pro Community User Group from 12th February 2025.

In addition, here is the recording, which includes Shehan Perera’s presentation: Proactive Threat Prevention with Defender Attack Surface Reduction Rules: https://youtu.be/pqHhN48B4Ao

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Speaker Bio: Shehan Perera

Shehan is an avid blogger, A Microsoft MVP in Security (Microsoft Intune and Identity & Access areas), and an IT professional with over 17 years of experience in the industry. He has worked with various clients and industries, delivering solutions that enhance security, productivity, and user experience.

He is passionate about learning new technologies and sharing his knowledge with others at the same time. He currently works as an Endpoint and Identity Architect at Bastion Technology Services, mainly focusing on Modern Device Management, Endpoint Security, Identity and Access.

Shehan Perera
MVP – Security
Endpoint and Identity Architect at Bastion Technology Services
Official Contributor – Modern Endpoint Management LinkedIn Group 
https://emsroute.com | https://intunemaps.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shehanperera85/

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What’s New? – Podcast!

https://www.linkedin.com/company/oobcasts
https://www.youtube.com/@OOBCasts
https://open.spotify.com/show/6OIu5urlxDy26s3ia7ihLU
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1789671447

https://linktr.ee/andrewoyoung
https://linktr.ee/shehanjp
https://linktr.ee/antoporter

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What’s New? – Teamwork

SharePoint January Event now on demand
https://aka.ms/SharePointEvent/microsite

New Teams Calendar

Unlicensed OneDrive Users

Stream -> Clipchamp

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What’s New? (Copilot)

M365 Copilot App – 15^th Jan 2025 onwards
m365.cloud.microsoft

M365 Copilot Chat

Copilot Developer Camp
https://microsoft.github.io/copilot-camp/

The Great M365 Copilot Journey
•Starter Kit: https://aka.ms/GreatCopilotJourney-DownloadKit
•Web Exp: https://aka.ms/GreatCopilotJourney
•Infographic: https://aka.ms/GreatCopilotJounrey-Infographic

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What’s New? – Exchange

Exchange Server 2019 – CU15 (25H1), last one!
•CU14 + CU15 support for EX2019 on WS2025
•Co-Existence blocked with EX2013

Exchange Server Subscription Edition upgrade paths
•EX2016 CU23 ->EX2019->in-place upgrade or
EX2016 CU23 to EXSE RTM
•EX2019 CU14/CU15 ->in-place upgrade or
EX2019 CU14/CU15 -> legacy upgrade/migration

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What’s New? – Windows

The Value of Windows Enterprise – webinar series
https://aka.ms/Windows/ValueOfEnterpriseWebinars

Windows 11, version 24H2 now broadly available

Windows Skilling Snacks

•Quality Updates during OOBE

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What’s New? – End of Support

What comes out of Support in October 2025:

•Windows 10

•Office 2016/2019

•Exchange 2016/2019

•Skype for Business 2015/2019

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Security Ninja Training

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Microsoft Student Accelerator – Michelle Sandford
https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/anz-microsoft-student-accelerator/

Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors (MLSA)
https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-US/studentambassadors

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Adelaide Microsoft Community

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What’s Coming? – Events

Global Power Platform Bootcamp 2025 – 21^st -> 22^nd Feb – https://www.powerplatformbootcamp.com/2025/

Power BI & Fabric Summit 2025 – 24th -> 28th Feb 2025 Online only​ – https://globalpowerbisummit.com/

Power Platform Tour: Accelerate Innovation with Low Code and AI (SYD) – 25^th Feb​ – https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=3305595770

Dicker Data Partners: AVD – Deployment in a Day – Adelaide – 18th March 2025 – https://www.dickerdata.com.au/microsoft/avd-workshop

Dicker Data Partners: Data Fabric Workshop – Adelaide – 19^th March 2025 – https://www.dickerdata.com.au/microsoft/data-fabric-workshop-2025

Digital Workplace Conference New Zealand – 18^th -> 19^th March 2025 – https://www.dwcnz.co.nz/

Microsoft MVP Global Summit (Seattle) – 25^th -> 27^th March 2025

Unlock New Opportunities with Microsoft Places! – 11:30AM 27^th March 2025 – https://aka.ms/M365_Places_Webinar-Register

Global AI Community Bootcamp (various) – March – April 2025 – https://globalai.community/bootcamp

Microsoft 365 Community Conference (Las Vegas) – 6^th -> 8^th May 2025 – https://aka.ms/M365Con25

Microsoft Build (Seattle) – 19^th -> 22^nd May 2025 – https://build.Microsoft.com 

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What’s Coming? – AMITPC 2024

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Tune in again next month during our Meetup, or catch the notes here!

If you would like to present or have a topic to request, please use this form!

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Links!

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilotblog/the-great-microsoft-365-copilot-journey-empower-your-team-with-copilot/4364094?wt.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftlearnblog/prove-your-in-demand-data-engineering-skills-and-champion-ai-innovation/4240414?WT.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/app-templates/emergency-operations-center?wt.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://aka.ms/M365_Places_Webinar-Register

https://microsoft.github.io/copilot-camp/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftintuneblog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-microsoft-intune-january-2025/4373560?wt.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-security-blog/optimizing-onedrive-retention-policies-with-administrative-units-and-adaptive-sc/4363433?wt.mc_id=MVP_324901

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftteamsblog/the-new-calendar-in-microsoft-teams-now-generally-available/4373598?wt.mc_id=MVP_324901