Charges selected Copilot services, for example SharePoint agents and agents in Copilot Chat, to a connected Azure subscription based on use. Admins configure it with billing policies, and the people using those services then don't need a Copilot licence.
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Terms in this definition
- SharePoint agents
Agents grounded in SharePoint sites and libraries that summarise documents and answer questions, showing each person only what they are allowed to see. Licensing is through Microsoft Copilot or pay-as-you-go.
- Copilot Chat
A conversational feature of Microsoft Copilot open to eligible subscriptions with no Copilot licence needed. Earlier it carried the name Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, and some admin centre labels may not have caught up.
- Azure subscription
Container for Azure resources that also marks the edge of their billing, quotas and scale limits, governance, security and identity. Each one trusts a single Microsoft Entra tenant, and it isn't bound to any region.
- Licence
What entitles one particular user to the services a subscription offers. Each product licence is made up of several service plans (one per app or service), and before giving it to someone an admin has to record that user's usage location.