Jan 02 2024 03:31 PM - edited Jan 03 2024 04:18 PM
Yesterday I raised a ticket with Support asking how I could enable Copilot for Microsoft 365. We have 50 users, and are on the M365 E3 plan.
The agent replied that I needed to purchase the stand-alone Copilot license, which is an add-on, from the marketplace. When I couldn't find the stand-alone Copilot license, I did some digging and found that initially there was a requirement for 300 users, and Copilot would be available for small businesses "soon". I replied to the agent with the information I had found, but heard nothing further.
Does anyone know what "soon" means?
Jan 02 2024 10:58 PM
Jan 03 2024 01:02 PM - edited Jan 03 2024 01:04 PM
And to add to this, you also need 500 E3 or E5 licenses.
Microsoft will lower the requirements as soon as there's enough resources to go around, main issue is the demand outstrips the supply and the connected cost to this makes it so that they need to prioritize clients that can cover those costs of the hardware and computing. There for it's 300 licenses
Jan 03 2024 03:19 PM
As a small business with 250 users should I be moving off current Business Premuim & Standard licensing and be moving towards E3 and E5 to be eligible for Copilot when they reduce the 300 threshold?
Jan 03 2024 04:16 PM
@NicolasKheirallah wrote:And to add to this, you also need 500 E3 or E5 licenses.
500 E3/E5 AND 300 Copilot licenses? Sounds like we will never be eligible then.
Jan 04 2024 04:23 AM
@peterrobinson @KarenJones2667
The requirement will become lower, we just don't know when but I'm guess and hopping within the year. They are working hard at it but there's is a bottleneck in the amount of Hardware and space to install the additional hardware required to run Copilot/AzureAI. So for example Microsoft is building a lot of new data centers just for this.
My guess the next requirement jump will be 250 E3/E5 and 50 Copilot licenses.
Jan 05 2024 03:00 AM
If your users are already on the E3 plan - you are, as I understand it, already eligible. You need to enable it as part of the "Extra Features".
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@Mike O'Neill , All,
Good news, my very small business with only myself as employee got the "Copilot for Microsoft 365" licence!
It is still very important to validate the information and clean up the files used by Copilot for its sources.
Enjoy,