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cersim97
Oct 15, 2026Copper Contributor
Agent Builder agents require Microsoft 365 Copilot license for users without a license?
Hi all, Has anyone noticed a recent change in how Copilot Agent Builder (in Copilot Chat) agents work for users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license? Our setup is: Agent created by a user with...
sohnash
Oct 19, 2026Iron Contributor
Hello cersim97 , as shared in the previous reply, this is about features available for licensed users used in the agent (and they are not available for unlicensed users). So that leads to the error saying they need a license to be able to use it.
If your setup was actually working fine for unlicensed users & suddenly stopped working, I strongly suspect it is because of this hidden UI settings (as these got moved with the latest version of Agent Builder) - you can check this as a Creator/Maker of the agent in Agent Builder.
Make sure they are all unchecked - these features cannot be used by unlicensed users.
sohnash
Oct 19, 2026Iron Contributor
Actually, it is just the "People data" setting that needs to be unchecked.