Kurt Shintaku's Blog

We’re excited to announce that Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now generally available in the GCC environment! This AI-powered chat experience is included in your licensing and designed to help you work smarter, faster, and more securely-tailored for government use and built on Microsoft’s trusted compliance framework.

How to Get Started:

1. Visit M365.Cloud.Microsoft or M365copilot.com and sign in with your work account.
2. Look for the green shield icon next to “New chat” to confirm you’re in the secure GCC environment.
3. Check out the attached prompts, a quick start guide and links/launch kits below to start sharing with your users!

Helpful Resources:

• Overview of Copilot Chat for GCC (.PPTX)
• Government 4-Step Quick Start Guide for M365 Copilot Chat
• Copilot Chat Prompts for GCC to get started
• Copilot Chat Blog Post
• Why Choose M365 Copilot Chat
• Copilot Chat Success Kit
• Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC – Microsoft Adoption

Important Notes:

• Web Search (Web Grounding) is off by default in GCC. If your team needs access to real-time web content, please coordinate with your IT admin to enable this feature and/or the account team on CC.
• Copilot Chat is included at no additional cost with Microsoft 365 licenses.
• Join the Nationwide State and Local Government Copilot Community – on Tuesday, June 24^th!

Unified and/or Partner Trainings

• For customers with a Unified contract, there is a 4-hour workshop for Copilot Chat training. Many customers are taking these and splitting it up unto 4, 1-hour deliveries for end users to take advantage of.
• One of Microsoft’s long-standing partners, BrainStorm, has been working closely with customers to support Copilot Chat adoption and training. They’re now offering their Copilot Chat training content at no cost to Microsoft customers.  Please email me and we will help you get started on their platform!
• Be on the lookout for more events coming from the Microsoft State and Local Government *coming soon*

If you’re a managed customer of mine that has questions or need help getting started, feel free to reach out and our team will be happy to collaborate on a marketing campaign, prompt a thon and much more. We’re here to support your Copilot journey!