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Limit the access?
Will it be possible to exclude certain people, topics, and areas (a team in Teams, a SharePoint site, etc.) from what Copilot has access to?
- kennethta
Microsoft
The Microsoft 365 tenant's permission structure helps prevent accidental data leaks among users, groups, and tenants. Microsoft 365 Copilot only displays data that the user is authorized to access, using the same data access controls as other Microsoft 365 services. The Semantic Index respects user identity-based access restrictions, ensuring that the grounding process only retrieves content that the user has permission to view.
- Copilot only surfaces content in responses that the user already has access to, and Copilot does not change existing permission and access so existing access levels apply. Excluding a SharePoint Online site from search results is the same process for both Microsoft Search and the Semantic Index for Copilot. To exclude a SharePoint Online site, browse to the site with appropriate permissions and click 'Settings' then 'Site information' from the drop down menu. Click 'View all site settings' to bring up the Site Settings page. Select 'Search and offline availability' under the 'Search' category and select 'No' for 'Allow this site to appear in search results' to exclude it from both Microsoft Search and the Semantic Index for Copilot search. This can also be performed with PowerShell for multiple sites.
