AMITPC – February 2026 Meetup

As promised, here are the links and slide decks for the topics covered during the Adelaide Microsoft IT Pro Community User Group Meetup on the 3rd February 2026.

In addition, here is the recording, which includes Andrew and Shehan’s presentation: M365 in 2026: Productivity to Security: https://youtu.be/5J1N6dXPHFQ

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What’s New?

More licensing news

• Microsoft Places features coming to all licenses that include access to the calendar in Outlook and Teams
• Renamed Teams Shared Space license
• Adv Teams town hall and webinar features available for all Teams Enterprise users (3k attendees, 10k view-only)
• Introduction of attendee pack add-on licenses for town hall events starting from 5k up to 100k attendees

Cross-Tenant Orchestrated User Data Migration (UDM) – Public Preview Dec ’25

• Batching of up to 2000 users
• All data stays in Microsoft boundary -> fast and secure migrations
• 1 : 1 user mapping from source to target, UDM includes mailbox, OneDrive, Teams chat and meetings.

SharePoint at 25 Birthday Event

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No Exchange Server Security Updates for January

Intune: Security Baseline package for M365 Apps for Enterprise

Version 2512

Purview: Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) – Preview

• DSPM for AI (legacy) – formerly Purview AI Hub
• DSPM (legacy)

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•Transitioning Sentinel experience to Defender XDR Portal

• 1^stJuly 2026 -> 31^stMarch 2027

•Viva Goals

• Retired 31^stDecember 2025

•Project/SharePoint Server 2016/2019

•Infopath/SharePoint Designer 2013

•SQL Server 2016

• End of Support 14^thJuly 2026

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New Defender Threat Hunting Tables

• DeviceTvmBrowserExtensionsKB
• DeviceTvmBrowserExtensions

Zero Trust Assessment Tool

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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

Ask Microsoft Anything: Purview Data Security Investigations Part 2 – 4:30AM 6^th February

https://aka.ms/AIPowerDays2026 – 17^th – 19^th February

SharePoint @ 25 The knowledge platform for Copilot and agents – 3^rdMarch 2026 – https://aka.msSPat25

AI Tour for Partners Sydney – 20^thApril 2026 – https://skilling-hub.com/en-US/listing/sydney

Microsoft AI Tour Sydney – 22^ndApril 2026 – request to attend open https://aitour.microsoft.com/flow/microsoft/sydney26/landingpage/page/cityhome

Digital Workplace Conference Melbourne – 28-29^thMay 2026 – https://dwcau.com.au/

Microsoft Build 2026 not in Seattle?

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What’s Coming? – AMITPC 2025

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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!

Licensing

Advancing Microsoft 365: New capabilities and pricing update
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/12/04/advancing-microsoft-365-new-capabilities-and-pricing-update

Microsoft 365 adds advanced Microsoft Intune solutions at scale
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftintuneblog/microsoft-365-adds-advanced-microsoft-intune-solutions-at-scale/4474272

Learn about Security Copilot inclusion in Microsoft 365 E5 subscription
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/security/security-copilot-inclusion

Licensing updates extend access to advanced capabilities in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Places
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftteamsblog/licensing-updates-extend-access-to-advanced-capabilities-in-microsoft-teams-and-/4488312

M365

Public Preview: Cross-tenant Orchestrated User Data Migration
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft_365blog/public-preview-cross-tenant-orchestrated-user-data-migration/4478034

Microsoft Clipchamp, a year in review: cohesive, AI-powered video creation and editing experiences
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/microsoft-clipchamp-a-year-in-review-cohesive-ai-powered-video-creation-and-edit/4474506

Copilot

What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot | January 2026
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilotblog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-microsoft-365-copilot–january-2026/4488916

Accelerating Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption with Automated Readiness Assessment
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilotblog/accelerating-microsoft-365-copilot-adoption-with-automated-readiness-assessment/4488879

Copilot for Sales

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/MicrosoftViva/blog/VivaSales-Blog

MDO

Strengthening calendar security through enhanced remediation
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftdefenderforoffice365blog/strengthening-calendar-security-through-enhanced-remediation/4456876

Secure collaboration in Microsoft Teams with efficient and automated Threat Protection and response
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftdefenderforoffice365blog/secure-collaboration-in-microsoft-teams-with-efficient-and-automated-threat-prot/4484479

XDR

Introducing AI-powered incident prioritization in Microsoft Defender
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftthreatprotectionblog/introducing-ai-powered-incident-prioritization-in-microsoft-defender/4483834

Announcing public preview: Uncovering hidden threats with the Dynamic Threat Detection Agent
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftthreatprotectionblog/announcing-public-preview-uncovering-hidden-threats-with-the-dynamic-threat-dete/4475313

Monthly news – January 2026
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftthreatprotectionblog/monthly-news—january-2026/4484885

Entra

Simplify your identity landscape, reduce risk, and modernize access for any identity
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-entra-blog/simplify-your-identity-landscape-reduce-risk-and-modernize-access-for-any-identi/4486059

Upcoming Conditional Access change: Improved enforcement for policies with resource exclusions
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-entra-blog/upcoming-conditional-access-change-improved-enforcement-for-policies-with-resour/4488925

Intune

Save the date: Intune Tech Community Live – January 26
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftintuneblog/save-the-date-intune-tech-community-live-%E2%80%93-january-26/4486086

Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of the security baseline package for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, version 2512
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-security-baselines/security-baseline-for-m365-apps-for-enterprise-v2512/4487213

Purview

Data Security Posture Management for AI
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurepurviewblog/data-security-posture-management-for-ai/4484148

Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations is now generally available
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-security-blog/microsoft-purview-data-security-investigations-is-now-generally-available/4489363

Ask Microsoft Anything: Purview Data Security Investigations Part 2
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/event/microsoft-security-events/ask-microsoft-anything-purview-data-security-investigations-part-2/4485393

Making AI Apps Enterprise-Ready with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Foundry
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-security-blog/making-ai-apps-enterprise-ready-with-microsoft-purview-and-microsoft-foundry/4489887

Sentinel

New content types supported in multi-tenant content distribution
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftsentinelblog/new-content-types-supported-in-multi-tenant-content-distribution/4457948

What’s new in Microsoft Sentinel: January 2026
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftsentinelblog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-microsoft-sentinel-january-2026/4486109

Automating Microsoft Sentinel: A blog series on enabling Smart Security
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftsentinelblog/automating-microsoft-sentinel-a-blog-series-on-enabling-smart-security/4487260

Accelerate your move to Microsoft Sentinel with the new AI Powered SIEM migration experience
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftsentinelblog/accelerate-your-move-to-microsoft-sentinel-with-the-new-ai-powered-siem-migratio/4488505

UPDATE: New timeline for transitioning Sentinel experience to Defender portal
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftsentinelblog/update-new-timeline-for-transitioning-sentinel-experience-to-defender-portal/4490464

Exchange

No Security Updates for January

Updated Exchange Online SMTP AUTH Basic Authentication Deprecation Timeline
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/updated-exchange-online-smtp-auth-basic-authentication-deprecation-timeline/4489835

SharePoint

SharePoint Showcase: Automation updates for smarter workflows & business processes
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/spblog/sharepoint-showcase-automation-updates-for-smarter-workflows–business-processes/4489858

Join us for the SharePoint at 25 Birthday Event
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/spblog/join-us-for-the-sharepoint-at-25-birthday-event/4485390

Planner

In case you missed it: A roundup of the latest Planner announcements
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/plannerblog/in-case-you-missed-it-a-roundup-of-the-latest-planner-announcements/4479334

Learn

Verified skills, real impact: Microsoft Credentials help you get AI-ready
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/skills-hub-blog/verified-skills-real-impact-microsoft-credentials-help-you-get-ai-ready/4137356

Course AB-100T00-A: Architecting agentic AI business solutions
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/training/courses/ab-100t00

Course AB-900T00-A: Introduction to Microsoft 365 and AI administration
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/courses/ab-900t00

Course AB-730T00-A: Transform business workflows with generative AI
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/courses/ab-730t00

Course AB-731T00-A: Drive AI transformation in your organization
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/courses/ab-731t00