Can Microsoft 365 Copilot use SharePoint pages and news to generate answers?

[Mel_D810]

Hi,

We use SharePoint to share knowledge through SharePoint pages and news, but when I use the Copilot chat functionality, I don't get answers with content from SharePoint pages and news. When would this become available? Or is it?

Thx for sharing your experiences 🙂

Mel

[#2]

It should search them as part of using your graph data. Is it a specific page it is not pulling results from?

[#3]

Hey Chris, even if I search for a specific news message on our Intranet, where I have access, Copilot cannot find it or is referring to documents instead.
If I just use our SharePoint search, then I get the message right away.
So it made me wonder if Copilot or the Graph searches in the SharePoint pages / news pages.

[#4]

Interesting. It should access what you have access to in OneDrive + SharePoint. I have had it reference things from SharePoint before. Perhaps an admin has enabled some level of restricted SharePoint search or there are sensitivity labels at play?

[#5]

I tried it with a colleague and we have to explicitly say to search in SharePoint.

[#6 · Accepted solution]

@Mel_D810 

You're right, currently SharePoint Copilot chat functionality doesn't directly access information from SharePoint pages and news posts. While there's no official announcement on a specific date, there is some discussion about including this functionality in the future.

Here's what we know:

• There's user interest in searching SharePoint content through Copilot chat, as evidenced by online discussions [Microsoft 365 Copilot and sharepoint page content].
• Microsoft is actively developing Copilot, and one of their goals is to make it a more comprehensive information hub within Microsoft 365.

While we can't say for sure when SharePoint page and news content will be searchable through Copilot chat, it's a good idea to keep an eye on Microsoft announcements. They might reveal new features in future updates.