Web Search in Copilot Notebooks Still Disabled Despite Policy Configuration

Thanks PeterForster​, — I really appreciate your thoughtful reply and the clarification you've provided.

You've essentially answered the question I should have asked more directly but wasn’t sure how to frame: “Is Web Content currently supported in Copilot Notebooks?” Based on your explanation, the answer appears to be no — even though the “Allow web search in Copilot” policy exists and the toggle appears (albeit greyed out) in the Notebook chat interface.

To test this, I started a Copilot chat outside of a Notebook with Web Content enabled, then added that chat to a Notebook. Once inside the Notebook, the Web Content toggle became disabled again — which aligns with what you described.

The confusion stems from the presence of the toggle, the existence of a policy that implies support, and the lack of a definitive statement from Microsoft confirming whether this feature is supported in Notebooks. That ambiguity led me to believe it was a misconfiguration on my end.

That said, I’ll still try your suggestion of adjusting policy priority or creating a new one to rule out any policy conflicts — but it’s helpful to know this may simply be a feature limitation rather than a deployment issue.

Previous order:

New order:

Thanks again for helping clarify this — your insight is much appreciated.