Admins who want certain users or groups to try preview Copilot and agent features ahead of everyone else can enrol them in this Microsoft programme, through Copilot settings and release preferences.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Frontier in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Preview channel
The pipeline runtime channel for trying out new features and upcoming runtime changes. Production pipelines belong on
current. - Agent
A specialised form of Microsoft Copilot set up for one particular job, pairing instructions with knowledge and skills. You can create one in Copilot Studio, SharePoint or Agent Builder, and administrators control them from the Microsoft 365 admin center.
- Document Intelligence add-on capabilities
Extra Document Intelligence options switched on with the features query parameter: barcodes, formulas, keyValuePairs, languages, ocrHighResolution, queryFields and styleFont.
- Release preferences
Standard release or Deferred release can be selected in the Microsoft 365 admin center to decide timing of new service features for users or the tenant. A third option, Targeted release, is on the way out: new enrolment stops in November 2026 and it finishes in January 2027.
Related terms
- E7
The Frontier Suite: a Microsoft 365 tier, generally available from 1 May 2026, that builds on all of E5 by adding Agent 365, Microsoft Entra Suite and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- Model router
A Foundry model you deploy once that picks, per prompt and in real time, which underlying model answers: cheap small ones for easy prompts, reasoning or frontier ones for hard ones. Modes are Balanced, Cost and Quality.