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- Plugins seem to be a compliance and security challenges. Is there guidance for how Studio would treat Compliance/Purview settings, for example, if linked to a CRM?
- JackRowbotham
Microsoft
Hey Jack, good question! The first thing to know is that any plugin made within Copilot Studio will not be made instantly available within Copilot chat without IT approval in the Microsoft Admin Center. The second part is that IT has control over who can access Copilot Studio to be able to build in the first place. Regarding plugins accessing LOB systems, the current scope does not support end-user authenticated plugins YET so developers can decide make a plugin on a Service account. This isnt as popular and IT can control this with environments and data loss prevention policies of what data connectors can be used. 
MS_DannyDiasGreat question Jack. Please refer to this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/security-and-governance
- Sarah_Gilbert
Community Manager
Extending Copilot: Building with Copilot Studio starts soon. Have a question? Post it here in the Comments. To simplify Q&A, please post one question per comment.
- Ah great! This is the one I was looking for. Is there an option to use Copilot Studio for testing in a non production environment? Currently the only option is $200 /mo.
- JackRowbothamHey Luis, Copilot Studio is available within two licenses. In Copilot for M365, just for extensibility via plugins and then available standalone for custom copilots which is $200 per mo. You can absolutely use environments to host Copilots through the steps of Dev, Test, and Prod. This allows more control over what will be available to that specific set of developers within the environment. Does that help?
- Sorry to jump in this chat, but would this mean for a customer facing experience custom CoPilot you would need to pay the $200/ mo. fee for Standalone Copilot?
- JackRowbothamThat's correct. As soon as you want to go beyond extending Copilot for M365 with conversational plugins, you would look to purchase the $200 per tenant per month for 25k messages. Popular scenarios for when people look to buy standalone is when you want Gen AI experiences outside of channels available from Copilot for M365, you want to build employee and/or customer experiences or even if you want a dedicated gen ai experience where you have more control over the orchestration of the LLM.
- I love the idea of extending Copilot for M365 into LOB applications/data. However, how can this be done where it respects the security/permission model within the application? For example, I as a user of an HR system have certain access that's been defined in the application. How can Copilot connections be designed to trim access based on the application's configured security/permissions?
- JackRowbothamGreat question! The plugins today only support authentication of the API but not end-user authentication just now. Once that feature is available, you will be able to have M365 Copilot users have authentication to the plugins and LOB systems specifically to their access levels.
- My organization has Copilot for M365, but I do not see the Conversational plugins option on the left pane in Copilot Studio. I also do not see the Copilot Studio option when I click on the plugins icon below the prompt text box in Teams. Is the feature not yet available?
- JackRowbothamHey David, try logging at www.copilotstudio.microsoft.com to start creating. The discovery of Copilot Studio within the plugin feature of Teams is not live just yet.
- Is there a way to control JUST the transcript (and not other data) through purview compliance content retention feature? I would like to delete it after one day, finding a middle ground between copilot without transcript (that can only be invoked when in meeting, therefore if someone forgets they are done for) and copilot with transcript, that presents a bit of a compliance headache for us (since we do not allow meeting recordings)? Ideally, we could use the copilot with no transcript for longer, ie hide the transcript from users but allow copilot prompts after the meeting ends.
- GabeHoHey Walter, thanks for the feedback. Right now, transcripts are either saved or not, but you bring up an interesting point about adding some lag to allow a window for referencing after a call. Will take that back to the team!
- Sarah_Gilbert
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Hello,
Can we extend copilot via copilot studio by direct B2B API integration for populating localized just-in-time search data repository populated in Dataverse or any Azure database or any storage location?
If not supported, do we needed to create custom connectors to our specific B2B APIs? If so, how to create those custom connectors?
Thank you.- JackRowbothamHey Nilesh, Copilot Studio supports 1200+ data connectors out of the box that you can use to help build your plugins. It also supports your own"custom connectors" which can be API integrations if you wish.
- Hi, I have a copilot studio license. I also have Copilot for Microsoft 365. But, I dont see an option to create conversation plugins. Is this feature yet to be rolled out?
- JackRowbothamHey Shadan, the plugin development in Copilot Studio is in preview today and will be more readily available over the next month. You should see conversational plugins when you open at the Copilot layer within Copilot Studio, on the left navigation pane. Let me know if that helps
- Thanks you. Do I need a Copilot studio license to create conversational plugins for Copilot for MS365? Or is a Copilot for MS365 license sufficient?
- Can copilot merge PowerPoint documents without using 3rd party connectors in Power Automate?
- GabeHoHi John, great question. I don't think it can do that but something I can surface back to the team.
