Introducing the new Microsoft Copilot experience in Teams

aschilbach this has been rollout in our tenant where the Copilot app is pre/auto-installed for all users even when they don't have M365 Copilot premium licenses. When they try to use it, it will return with error of "don't have valid license".

We just started the promotion of "Copilot in Edge" within our company as we have ME3 & ME5 but we don't have M365 Copilot premium license. This is now causing some confusions to users and IT support.

Could we please get this removed and make it as available app instead of pre/auto-installed app???? Perhaps let admin control the installation to those with M365 Copilot premium license only.

Ching-Yoong_Chang Thanks for sharing this experience. I can see how this would cause confusion for users who do not have the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Our engineering team is aware of this issue and is working on a fix now as this was not the intended experience.

Is there a way to bring over your chat history from M365 to Copilot?

Can I confirm if like in our company we do not have the luxury of Copilot licences that the old chat as it were will still function? Or is the long term plan to depreciate chat in Teams unless you have a Copilot licence? 

David_Swenson thanks for the feedback and great (very timely) question. The new Copilot app in Teams mobile is scheduled to roll out in March. You can track that item on the public roadmap here: Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365

While I have a valid Copilot license and can access it on my smartphone in the teams app and across various Office apps, I am unable to see the Copilot app on my desktop client. The other copilot features do work in teams, only the chat is missing.

Upon opening M365 Chat (The old app), I receive a notification indicating that the Copilot app will be discontinued soon. However, when I click on the message, a popup appears with details about the Copilot App, but I am required to “request” access to use it. Unfortunately, our admin backend portal does not display the app, preventing us from granting access: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/policies/manage-apps 

Interestingly, another user within our tenant has the Copilot icon visible, which raises questions about why some of us cannot see it. Is there any additional action we can take to trigger the appearance of the Copilot app?

Thank you for your assistance in resolving this matter.

Hey Martek and brcallicott, this might be a known bug that we're putting a fix in for next week.

In the interim as a workaround, you may need to assign a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license to your admin account so the app shows up for you in the portal to assign the right permissions to it. Copilot licenses can be reassigned, so the license assigned to your admin account can be removed and reassigned as needed.

Are their any instructions on how to turn off the addition of CoPilot in Teams for GCC tenants? Or maybe a better question, how does a tenant completely turn off ALL CoPilot instances in apps until our organization is ready to use it?

aschilbach , I have made the switch from M365 Chat pinned app to the Copilot app listed in this announcement. Good improvement BUT the Copilot pinned app and Chat option is not available on Mobile in Teams like the M365 Chat app was. Can this be updated to support Mobile phones? 

Will there be a way to better organize Copilot chats over time? I see that the new experience gives us a running list, merged in with content from Copilot (microsoft.com), but:

1. Will the previous conversations from the M365 Chat experience be merged in?
2. The heading of this list of chats is just called "recent". Will this age out over time?
3. Can I organize chat history at all? For example, I may want to have a separate folder for chats about customer1 vs customer2. Or personal vs work related, etc.
4. How can I search previous chats, now that it not its own conversation? Conversations have a contextual search box above them, but when you use search from the new experience, it seems to search all of teams.