Microsoft 365 Copilot: free 30-day trial

One thing to note the message (MC1338815) has disappeared from the admin center, I don't know if this means the plan has already changed or not.

These announcements often create more questions than answers! Here's my interpretation:

1. The message mentioned "Small and medium-sized business (SMB) tenants with up to 300 seats". My understanding of that would be "business" licences (e.g. Microsoft 365 Business Premium) and not enterprise licensing such as E3 or E5. The rollout schedule says SMB early July and General Availability at a later date. So, enterprise licensing might get access to the trial in the future.
2. It is a per-user based trial that individual users activate.
3. Not limits were mentioned as to how many could activate a trial.
4. It sounds like new users would be able to access it.
5. Users need to start the trial from Copilot Chat manually. Admins can disable user's ability to start a trial through the admin center, go to Microsoft 365 admin center > Settings > Org settings > Self-service trials and purchases (this is a tenant level setting).
6. It didn't mention the ability to extend the trial - "After the trial ends, users must be assigned a paid license by an admin to continue using Copilot."

Hope this helps!