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Employees can bring Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 plans to work - what it means for IT

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Samer_Baroudi
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Oct 01, 2025
Whether IT-sanctioned or in the shadows, AI has become mainstream in knowledge work. Employees everywhere are bringing their own AI assistants – and that can be a good thing, unless the tools they br...
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granis
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Oct 02, 2025

This is just another nail in the coffin removing the IT departments authority and control. It is up to the IT department and not Microsoft or any third party to decide what AI tools, software and services to be used. Having Microsoft opening backdoors is not what we want. Continue down this road and we will remove Microsoft from the list of accepted suppliers. 

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alexpozin
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Oct 02, 2025

Appreciate your feedback. You can disable this option, so your IT team remains in control: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-365/multiple-account-access#manage-multiple-account-access-to-copilot-using-cloud-policy

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    wroot
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    Oct 03, 2025

    So, it is enabled by default? Why?