If Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses are purchased for a sub-segment of your Microsoft 365 GCC users, it can provide SharePoint Advanced Management licensing for ALL USERS as announced on our blog. For instance, if a customer buys 250 seats for M365 Copilot, all 20,000+ users in the M365 cloud instance will access to SharePoint Advanced Management.
Note however: GCC customers will not automatically receive these SharePoint Advanced Management licenses until April 2025.
- From an administrative standpoint, for any of my customers purchasing pilot Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC licenses (~10% of your Microsoft 365 footprint) right now until April 2025, contact your Account team and we can request an exception with Microsoft 365 engineering to roll out SharePoint Advanced Management trial licenses tenant-wide for you extended for 3 months until it’s fully integrated with the M365 Copilot GCC purchases in April 2025 & can obtain full licenses/non-trial licenses.
- After the exception is approved, we can work with you to ensure that your Unified CSAM &/or CSA are working together to then educate you on assigning licenses, configuring features, enabling them, and best practices on monitoring and usage.
- There is also an offering from Unified Support called “SharePoint Optimization” that can be leveraged, with modules of SharePoint Advanced Management being included in it.
NOT READY TO LICENSE MICROSOFT 365 COPILOT?
Organizations with Microsoft 365 GCC that don’t want to license Microsoft 365 Copilot immediately, wil be able to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in April 2025. Copilot Chat is the “lite” version of M365 Copilot which provides Enterprise secure, IT-managed Copilot for end users as part of their Entra ID Premium P1 licensing. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat exclusively provides responses based on Internet/web data & does NOT INDEX OR PROVIDE RESPONSES based on Microsoft 365 GCC protected data from Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams or OneDrive for Business. (Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat consequently does not include SharePoint Advanced Management since Copilot Chat does not automatically index SharePoint Online or OneDrive files.)
(Note: There are no “trial” licenses of Microsoft 365 Copilot. If you wish to “test” Microsoft 365 Copilot & it’s integration with your Microsoft 365 tenant data, you are required to purchase licenses. These licenses will again include SharePoint Advanced Management licensing as mentioned above & this will activate the “Semantic Index service” and the “Microsoft 365 Copilot System service” for use in your organization’s Microsoft 365 cloud instance.)
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