Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing confusion
In the SharePoint Agent preview (ended in October 2025), Microsoft permitted unlicensed users to access SharePoint agents. I guess the reason for it was to enable organizations to evaluate agent functionality and provide feedback before licensing and billing requirements were applied (?). After the preview period concluded, it now seems that all users are required to have a Microsoft 365 Copilot Add-On license to interact with SharePoint agents. Users with, for example, a Microsoft 365 E3 license can only access the free version of Copilot (Copilot Chat), but do not have interaction privileges with SharePoint agents. A while ago, one of our CSP partners recommended us to buy a capacity pack and set up pay-as-you-go billing. In their opinion, this would replace the need for the Microsoft 365 Copilot Add-On license. However, we do not want to buy these expensive package unless we know for sure that this is the case. Can anyone answer the question: Does using a capacity pack and pay-as-you-go billing override user license requirements? Thank you ❤️Limitation of Copilot agent development in M365 developer tenants
I am using a M365 developer subscription and have hit a wall trying to develop a functioning Copilot agent. I was able to sign up for Copilot Studio trial license. This enables creation of M365 Copilot agent with knowledge held in SharePoint lists. However, not having 'Semantic Index' is a severe limitation that defeats the purpose of developer subscription. The agent being unable to use 'Enhance SharePoint Search' setting aka 'Semantic Index' aka vector embeddings means the agent is basically dumb and not an intelligent AI agent. After some research, I discovered the tenant needs at least one M365 Copilot license to enable 'semantic index'. To get my Copilot agent built, I decided to invest in this expensive license and then discovered a developer agent can neither have M365 Copilot or PAYG metered license. What this all means is that 'M365 developer subscription CANNOT be used to build a Copilot agent grounded in data in SharePoint'. You may be able to create a dumb agent with web search. A note that the agent I was building was not for a commercial customer. It was for my learning. By creating a proper agent, I will be able to showcase it in a YouTube video with the hope that some client somewhere may find it useful enough to pay for me as well as pay for Microsoft licensing, a win-win. I guess I will have to increase my investment fund, and sign-up for 'M365 Production Tenant + M365 Prod License Business or Enterprise + M365 Copilot + M365 Copilot Studio'. Seems like this type of development is a luxury only few could afford. Just thought to share as this may be useful for others trying to do the same.
Using Copilot for Outlook to provide meeting date options
Currently, a team member is tasked regularly with not only finding an open slot for several people during a specific period of time/dates, but that team member must also evaluate whether there are any internal meetings that could be moved to accommodate the meeting if no other options exist. Can Copilot do something like this yet? When I was playing around with the system, it didn't seem to be reading others' calendars well, even availability, much less knowing if their meeting was internal.Researcher and Analyst Usage Limits
In the Microsoft blog post published on June 2nd announcing the general availability of Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot, it states, “any user with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license can run up to 25 combined queries per month”. Is this 25 queries limited to a 30 day rolling period or a calendar month? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/06/02/researcher-and-analyst-are-now-generally-available-in-microsoft-365-copilot/
usage price when adding Copilot chat-bot to our external web site
We have a public web site, where it contain some documentation in HTML pages and PDF files. now we want to develop a chat bot using copilot studio and embed this inside our public web site. but i have those questions:- Can external/anonymous users who visit our public web site, use the copilot chat-bot without having to login using Microsoft business account? 2. What about the usage price? how it will be calculated? Regards
