Microsoft 365 Copilot Foundations (2026)
Review Copilot deployment controls in an Australian context
Build a practical foundation for reviewing Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment decisions in Australian organisations. Scenario-based exercises examine permissions, Microsoft Purview, agent availability, privacy considerations, and source evidence; the course is not legal advice, compliance certification, or an IRAP assessment.
At a Glance
Who it's for
- Microsoft 365 administrators enabling Copilot for the first time
- IT coordinators preparing tenant governance before Copilot rollout
- Security engineers reviewing Copilot deployment controls against current ASD Blueprint guidance
- IT managers accountable for Copilot deployment in Australian organisations
Course Details
Course Overview
Microsoft 365 Copilot is a set of changing experiences whose capabilities, data connections, prerequisites, and availability depend on the specific product, licence, tenant, and configuration. This foundational course helps Australian IT practitioners reason about deployment decisions using current first-party Microsoft documentation and Australian privacy and cyber-security sources. Learners use fictional scenarios, instructor demonstrations, and sample evidence to examine how permissions affect access to Microsoft 365 content; discuss sensitivity labels, documented data loss prevention controls, and SharePoint discovery governance; and compare agent scenarios without changing a production tenant. Exercises distinguish verified information from assumptions and identify the licensing, role, cloud, and service details that an administrator must confirm for their own environment. Australian frameworks are used as learning references, not as compliance determinations or endorsed product mappings. The course does not provide legal advice, certify a deployment, promise an IRAP assessment outcome, or establish that a particular tenant meets a security framework. Its eight-hour learner seat time includes scheduled breaks; facilitated learning and practice total 415 minutes.
What You'll Learn
Course Curriculum
Module 1: Module 1: Architecture and readiness
75 minutes- Explain architecture, grounding, user permissions and scoped privacy statements
- Distinguish experience, licensing and app prerequisites for an intended workflow
- Interpret a synthetic readiness report and corroborate update-channel evidence
- Trace supplied permission paths and distinguish effective access from business purpose
- Recommend a pilot cohort with evidence, assumptions, owners and review dates
Module 2: Module 2: Pre-Deployment Controls
100 minutes- Sensitivity label concepts and scenario-based taxonomy design for Copilot-related content
- Review documented Purview DLP controls and their experience-, policy-, and licence-specific limits
- Restricted Content Discovery as a selective discovery control, not a permission change or security boundary; Restricted SharePoint Search retirement
- SharePoint organisation- and site-level sharing controls and external-sharing governance
- Conditional Access context: validate resource, user scope, service dependencies, and licensing; no universal Copilot-only policy recipe
Module 3: Module 3: Pages and the Agent Baseline
90 minutes- Copilot Pages: documented storage prerequisites and governance considerations
- SharePoint agent scenarios: review documented scope and permission boundaries, then verify availability
- Compare documented agent types and identify deployment prerequisites before any tenant change
- Discuss agent interaction with sensitivity-labelled content using a fictional scenario
- Locate current official guidance for agent-creation controls; no learner configuration
Module 4: Module 4: Copilot Control System and Tenant Governance
80 minutes- Source-led review of documented tenant governance controls; instructor demonstration only where current guidance supports it
- Identify questions about connected experiences, data access, permissions, roles, and availability for an organisation to verify
- Purview audit: inspect sample activity records and note event-coverage, permission, and retention limits
- Prepare questions about current cloud-service assessment material for an authorised assessor; do not determine IRAP scope
- Record verified facts, assumptions, unknowns, and accountable owners in a governance decision log
Module 5: Module 5: Australian Compliance and Deployment Readiness
70 minutes- Use Privacy Act 1988 and APP guidance as context for scenario discussion, not legal advice
- Discuss possible Essential Eight relevance; label any course crosswalk an EDUC4TE learning exercise, not an ASD-endorsed mapping
- Find current ASD Blueprint guidance and record evidence limits without asserting a tier or compliance result
- Complete a scenario readiness scorecard with verified facts, assumptions, gaps, and owner actions
- Check current official product and credential sources before including future-capability claims in planning
Who Should Attend
- Microsoft 365 administrators enabling Copilot for the first time
- IT coordinators and project leads managing Copilot rollout
- Security engineers reviewing Copilot deployment controls against current ASD Blueprint guidance
- Governance and compliance officers assessing Copilot risk
- IT managers in Australian government agencies and regulated organisations
Prerequisites
Before enrolling, please ensure you meet these requirements:
- • Basic understanding of Microsoft 365 administration (user management, licences)
- • Familiarity with SharePoint Online and Teams at a user or admin level
- • No prior Microsoft Copilot experience required
- • No security certification required
Delivery, Format and Logistics
Delivery Mode
Live instructor-led one-day workshop (8 hours total seat time including breaks), self-paced online modules, or 8 x 60-minute lunch-and-learn seat-time sessions over 8 days
Maximum 20 participants for interactive lab exercises
What You'll Need
- Basic familiarity with Microsoft 365 administration
- No tenant access is required; exercises use fictional scenarios, sample evidence, or instructor demonstrations. Any optional sandbox must be confirmed before the course; production changes are not part of the exercises.
- Computer with a modern browser and reliable internet connection
- No prior Copilot experience required
What You'll Receive
- 480 minutes of learner seat time, including 415 minutes of facilitated learning and practice plus 65 minutes of scheduled breaks
- Scenario-based exercises using fictional data, an isolated sandbox, or instructor-provided screenshots; no production tenant changes
- Scenario-based pre-deployment controls checklist (PDF)
- Source-check worksheet for Australian security and privacy guidance; no endorsed tier mapping
- Access to recorded sessions for 6 months
- Certificate of completion
- Email support for 30 days post-course
- Links to Copilot Waves 1 & 2 free ebook download
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Format
Live instructor-led one-day workshop (8 hours total seat time including breaks), self-paced online modules, or 8 x 60-minute lunch-and-learn seat-time sessions over 8 days
Group & Enterprise Options
Discounted rates available for teams of 3+ delegates. Contact us for in-house delivery options.
What's Included
- 480 minutes of learner seat time, including 415 minutes of facilitated learning and practice plus 65 minutes of scheduled breaks
- Scenario-based exercises using fictional data, an isolated sandbox, or instructor-provided screenshots; no production tenant changes
- Scenario-based pre-deployment controls checklist (PDF)
- Source-check worksheet for Australian security and privacy guidance; no endorsed tier mapping
- Access to recorded sessions for 6 months
- Certificate of completion
- Email support for 30 days post-course
- Links to Copilot Waves 1 & 2 free ebook download
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