If you want to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot usage with pay-as-you-go billing, you can use Visual Studio subscription with Azure credits as the billing method, as long as the benefit is already activated and available in the correct tenant. This is useful when you want to enable additional credits for services such as Copilot Cowork, the Work IQ API, or managed applications. What this setup does Within M365 Admin center > cost management, you can create a spending policy and point it to an Azure billing method.

If you are building with Copilot Studio beyond the included M365 Copilot license entitlements, you eventually need a pay-as-you-go billing plan for additional usage specially for Github Copilot Harness which requires credits even for development. One practical option is to use the Azure credits that come with a Visual Studio subscription, provided your subscription benefit is active and the offer supports the required resources. This is useful when you want to experiment with Copilot Studio.

Monitoring your Copilot Studio agents is essential for understanding user interactions, identifying issues, and optimizing performance. Azure Application Insights provides comprehensive real-time monitoring and analytics capabilities for your copilot conversations. This guide walks you through connecting Application Insights to your Copilot Studio agent, enabling detailed telemetry, conversation tracking, and performance monitoring. Table of Contents Why Application Insights for Copilot Studio? Prerequisites Step 1: Create Application Insights Resource Step 2: Retrieve the Connection String Step 3: Link Application Insights to Copilot Agent Step 4: Verify Configuration Step 5: Check Metadata in Application Insights within Copilot Studio Agent Step 6: Test Step 7: Enable Enhanced Transcripts Step 8: Access the Copilot Studio Dashboard in Application Insights References Why Application Insights for Copilot Studio?

Inheritance of Sharing Settings in Channel Associated SharePoint Sites Channel associated SharePoint sites inherit the external and default sharing settings of the parent team except when the parent team default sharing link is set to “People with Existing Access” only during creation. The two sections highlight the testing I have done by first updating the parent team sharing setting before creating a private or shared channel which creates the corresponding site in the background.

Introduction Azure AI Foundry comes with built-in Safety + Security features, also known as Azure AI Services. However, you may encounter the following error message: Your account does not have access to this resource, please contact your resource owner to get access The Learn More link directs you to a possible fix: ensuring your account is assigned the role of Cognitive Services User for the Content Safety resource or Azure AI Services resource you’re using.

Transferring an Azure subscription to a new tenant can be a complex process. I recently followed the instructions from How can I move a subscription to a new tenant? to move an Azure subscription to a new test tenant. However, the new test tenant was not appearing in the list of tenants I could move the subscription to. I realized that the account I was using needed to be a global admin in both tenants.

Azure Document Intelligence Studio - Neural vs. Template Training Azure Document Intelligence Studio formally known as form recognizer is a powerful tool to extract data from documents at scale. Among its features, the ability to “train a new model” for data extraction from documents. This process comes with two distinct options: Neural and Template. Each has its unique advantages and use cases. Neural Training The Neural option leverages deep learning algorithms to understand and process documents.