The article introduces Intune my Macs, an open-source starter kit created by the Microsoft Intune Customer Experience Engineering team to help organizations rapidly build a macOS proof of concept in Microsoft Intune. It bundles more than 31 enterprise-grade configurations—covering security, compliance, identity, applications, scripts, and custom attributes—into a single PowerShell‑driven deployment that can run in dry‑run mode or apply changes to an Intune tenant. The tool accelerates macOS onboarding by providing ready‑made, well‑documented reference implementations, reducing setup time to minutes while enabling learning through consistent naming patterns and clear configuration logic. Additional utilities help analyze existing policies, document configurations, detect conflicts, and understand processing order. While Intune is fully supported, the provided scripts themselves are not; users are responsible for testing and validating them within their environments.
Microsoft Teams will introduce a Custom AI Summary feature in Meeting Recap for Copilot users, allowing personalized meeting notes via templates or instructions. Rolling out from mid-December 2025 to late February 2026, it requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and supports all Teams Intelligent Recap languages.
Microsoft is modernizing its mapping infrastructure by migrating the SharePoint Maps web part from Bing Maps to Azure Maps between early March and mid-April 2026. This automatic transition aligns SharePoint with Microsoft's unified Azure mapping platform for improved reliability and long-term support. While core mapping functionality continues, several features are being retired, and IT administrators need to prepare now to ensure a smooth experience for end users.
What’s Changing? The web part will be renamed from "Bing Maps" to "Maps", and while Place and Address search remains intact, Business Entity search (finding businesses by name like "Starbucks") is being removed. Bird’s Eye View and Street View are also discontinued, with automatic fallback to Road View. Additionally, autosuggestions will no longer support Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, and Azure Maps is currently unavailable in China. Azure Maps itself offers a rich set of geospatial capabilities, including real-time traffic, weather overlays, and route optimization, which we hope to see integrated into SharePoint in future updates.
Action Items for Admins: Add atlas.microsoft.com to your allowlist and verify firewall/proxy configurations. Audit SharePoint pages using the Maps web part, communicate changes to site owners and helpdesk teams, and update internal documentation.
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Microsoft has made the ability to see your Power Platform inventory generally available. In the Power Platform Admin Center, "Inventory" is now under "Manage" which will show you your Agents, Apps, Flows, Environments, and Environment Groups. You will still be able to see your resource-specific inventory views within Copilot Studio, Power Apps and Power Automate. There are also connectors and actions to pull this data through Graph, Power Platform for Admins v2 connector and Power Platform Inventory API.
By mid-February, Microsoft will begin rolling out OneNote usage information in SharePoint site analytics. Admins and Users can access SharePoint site analytics to see if OneNote files were among the most accessed in the last 7 days, and OneNote activity will likely increase unique viewers and site visits. No Admin actions are necessary to make these metrics available.
6. Preparing for Microsoft’s New SharePoint Experience
Late February, Microsoft announced the rollout of a new SharePoint experience that rethinks how users discover information, publish content, and build solutions across Microsoft 365. Tracked under Roadmap ID 547732, this update introduces a redesigned SharePoint app bar, a new Discover start experience, and clearer separation between content consumption, publishing, and solution creation. The experience is tenant‑controlled and optional, giving organizations flexibility in when and how they adopt it.
This update builds directly on recent SharePoint changes, including the modernized document library experience that aligned libraries more closely with OneDrive while preserving SharePoint‑specific capabilities. Those updates simplified navigation, elevated views and filters, and introduced Copilot‑powered actions for licensed users. The new SharePoint experience continues this trajectory, reinforcing Microsoft’s push toward a cleaner UI, stronger information architecture, and Copilot as a more central interaction model rather than a side feature.
Copilot plays an important role, but it’s worth separating expectations from reality. While any tenant can enable the new SharePoint experience, AI‑assisted capabilities require a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Microsoft has been clear that this release establishes the foundation for future AI‑assisted creation and discovery scenarios. In practice, this means organizations should view the update as both a UX refresh and a signal of where SharePoint is headed over the next several release cycles.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is adding a new feature to SafeLinks protection to include links shared in Microsoft Teams chats and messages, not just email.
Administrators will now get alerts when someone clicks a suspicious or potentially harmful link in Teams, helping organizations spot and respond to threats faster. Alerts will show in the Defender dashboard when either a user clicks on a malicious link in Teams or if a malicious link click was detected.
This update will be turned on automatically for customers that own Defender for Office 365, and there is nothing you will need to do to in preparation.
Public preview rollout will begin in late February 2026 while general availability will begin in early March 2026. GCC, GCC High and DoD customer rollout will become in early May. Each rollout will take roughly 2-4 weeks to complete.
