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Has there been any update to the number of licenses required for Copilot for Microsoft 365?
Yesterday I raised a ticket with Support asking how I could enable Copilot for Microsoft 365. We have 50 users, and are on the M365 E3 plan.
The agent replied that I needed to purchase the stand-alone Copilot license, which is an add-on, from the marketplace. When I couldn't find the stand-alone Copilot license, I did some digging and found that initially there was a requirement for 300 users, and Copilot would be available for small businesses "soon". I replied to the agent with the information I had found, but heard nothing further.
Does anyone know what "soon" means?
- Hi
as of now minimum 300 Licenses. For SMB we may need to wait couple of months.And to add to this, you also need 500 E3 or E5 licenses.
Microsoft will lower the requirements as soon as there's enough resources to go around, main issue is the demand outstrips the supply and the connected cost to this makes it so that they need to prioritize clients that can cover those costs of the hardware and computing. There for it's 300 licenses
As a small business with 250 users should I be moving off current Business Premuim & Standard licensing and be moving towards E3 and E5 to be eligible for Copilot when they reduce the 300 threshold?
If your users are already on the E3 plan - you are, as I understand it, already eligible. You need to enable it as part of the "Extra Features".
- The number of entreprise licenses needed is a hard limit, you won't be able to buy copilot licenses without having 500 licenses
- Is there documentation highlighting 500 licenses? We have been told and only read 300 ME3 or ME% licenses...
