Today, we were thrilled to announce availability updates to education audiences for Microsoft Copilot and Copilot for Microsoft 365.
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In this blog, we will focus on options and recommendations for managing user access to Copilot with commercial data protection. We launched Copilot to M365 A3 and A5 faculty in August, and starting in early February 2024 we are expanding eligibility to:
If you aren’t a Microsoft customer today, you can learn more about our educational plans including Office 365 A1, a simple and free option for students and educators at eligible institutions.
Commercial data protection means user and organizational data are protected, prompts and responses are not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access, and chat data isn't used to train the underlying large language models. It also provides seamless, managed access to Copilot using Microsoft Entra ID. Unlike Copilot for Microsoft 365, Copilot has no access to organizational data in the Microsoft 365 Graph. Commercial data protection applies to users with eligible work or school accounts wherever Copilot is available. It is available at no additional cost. Learn more: https://aka.ms/Copilot/Docs
Administrators have the ability to enable or disable commercial data protection for all or select users with the Copilot service plan. Learn more here: Manage Copilot | Microsoft Learn
To block access to Copilot entirely on your network:
In late January: the Copilot service plan (part name: Bing_Chat_Enterprise) will be available for you to manage this experience for all eligible licenses indicated above.
In early February: commercial data protection will be available in Copilot for eligible users and turned on by default unless you have disabled the service plan.
We recommend all Education customers take additional steps to manage appropriate deployment:
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