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Microsoft 365 Copilot: free 30-day trial
Starting July 2026, Microsoft is rolling out a free 30-day trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) for small and medium-sized organisations (up to 300 users). Users from eligible organisations will...
MattBurr I manage an E5 tenant, and I have so many unanswered questions if I should allow or disallow Microsoft 365 Copilot self-service trials in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center
- Could you elaborate what counts as an 'eligible organisation' or an 'eligible small and medium business'? We have less than 10 users, so would we be eligible under this rollout?
- Is this a tenant-wide trial, or is it a per-user based trial?
- If it's the latter, can multiple users activate their own separate trials distinctively? In other words, if User1 has already activated their trail, this does not affect the ability for User2 to start their trail at a later point in time, is that a correct assumption?
- If a new user has entered in the tenant, are they automatically eligible for this 30-day trial, or is it for existing users only?
- As an admin, except for the license request approval, do we have any further control over a user's actions? Can we add or cancel that trial from the Admin Center? or does the trail request has to be initiated first by that user from Copilot Chat manually?
- Lastly, if we plan to pilot with a focused group, what if 30-days isn't enough to estimate the ROI and the TCO of a full Copilot license for our Org?