Web content plug-in management in M365 Copilot

[prashantguptag]

Hi,

Referring to this announcement MC882258 in message center, MS informed that web content plug-in management will be removed from M365 admin center, rather it will be managed as part of Optional Connected Experience for M365.

We have currently disabled this web content plug-in in our environment but allowed Optional Connected Exp for the users. After this announced change, how web content plug-in will behave? Will it enabled because we have Optional connected exp. enabled? Secondly, what is the reason behind this change? Why MS has taken individual control setting away and mixed it with so many optional connected exp. where we do not have an option to choose which optional connected exp. we want to enable/disable. Its like all or nothing.

[#2]

Well, since yesterday I can confirm having eyes on multiple organizations, the web content plug-in is now indeed on.
And optional connected experience is a group policy for Office, not for the browser settings... I'm investigating if I can turn it off at all now 🤔

[#3]

I have also seen the same behaviour on several tenants. The web content plugins were switched on again.
Not yet found a solution from Microsoft to disable the web content plugin again

[#4]

Microsoft has moved Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot to the same architecture (which 'transitioned' Microsoft Copilot CDP into EDP). The control to disable, or enable the web-grounding when the user has the toggle of the web content plug-in 'on', is cloud policy optional connected experiences. Which you can find as admin on https://config.office.com/officeSettings/officePolicies

Derived from the info starting here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-365/manage-public-web-access#controls-available-...