M365 Changelog: (Updated) Copilot pages available and enabled in your tenant – Oct 1, 2024

Summary

Copilot Pages, a new feature for collaborative knowledge work, is now available and enabled by default for Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers. The rollout began on September 16, 2024, and will complete by early October. Users can edit and share Copilot responses, with admin controls for customization. No action is required for setup.

MC890882 – Updated October 1, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

If you have opted-in to the Copilot experience, Microsoft is excited to announce that Microsoft has released Copilot Pages as default enabled. It comes with admin controls should you need to control the experience differently within your tenant.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide) to Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers: Microsoft will begin rolling out today, September 16, 2024, and expects to complete by early October 2024 (previously late September).

How this will affect your organization:

Today Microsoft announced Copilot Pages, a first step in our new design system for knowledge work. Copilot Pages is a dynamic, persistent canvas in Copilot chat designed for multi-player collaboration. With Pages, you can turn insightful Copilot responses into something durable with a side-by-side page that you can edit and, when ready, share with your team to collaborate.

Copilot Pages starts rolling out today for Microsoft 365 Copilot users and soon for Microsoft 365 subscribers.

If you have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, you and your team can work with Copilot directly on the page when you open it in full screen. In a multiplayer approach, prompt Copilot together as a team to improve and expand responses, learn from each other’s prompts, and organize complex information. With Copilot Pages, human to AI interactions come to life. Microsoft sees collaborative prompting as the next great step forward in evolving Copilot from an individual, point-in-time exercise into a collaborative experience.

You can return to pages at any time by clicking the link in chat or the Open Page icon at the top of the associated Copilot session. Additionally, users can view all their pages in the Pages module in Microsoft365.com where they can also collaborate with others. Microsoft 365 Copilot users can use Copilot to refine the content on a page.

Created pages are stored in a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container. The container is lifetime-managed with the user account, so like OneDrive, the container and its content are deleted when the user account is deleted.

What you need to do to prepare:

There is nothing you need to do to prepare, the feature is automatically enabled. If you wish to change the configuration of the feature, there are three ways to consider based on your needs.

You can (1) assign or unassign Copilot licenses to users that you do or do not want to have this experience, (2) use a Cloud Policy setting to prevent users from creating new Copilot pages in Copilot Business Chat, and/or (3) use Conditional Access or Information Barriers policies to block certain users from accessing Copilot pages as needed.

More information can be found here: Copilot pages for IT Admins – Sep 2024 update

Instructions for using the Cloud Policy to enable/disable Copilot pages in your tenant repeated here for ready reference:

  1. Sign in to https://config.office.com/ with your Microsoft 365 admin credentials.
  2. Select Customization from the left pane.
  3. Select Policy Management.
  4. Create a new policy configuration or edit an existing one.
  5. From the Choose the scope dropdown list, choose either All users or select the group for which you want to apply the policy. For more information, See Microsoft 365 Groups for Cloud Policy.
  6. In Configure Settings, choose this setting:
    1. For Create and view Loop files in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat:
      1. Enabled: Copilot chat experience is available to the users.
      2. Disabled: Copilot chat experience isn’t available to the users.
      3. Not configured: Copilot chat experience is available to the users.
  7. Save the policy configuration.
  8. Reassign priority for any security group, if required. (If two or more policy configurations are applicable to the same set of users, the one with the higher priority is applied.)

In case you create a new policy configuration or change the configuration for an existing policy, there can be a delay in the change being reflected as described below:

If there were no policy configurations prior to the change, then it may take 24 hours for the change to be reflected.

If there were existing policy configurations prior to the change, then it may take 90 mins for the change to be reflected.