Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Pin agents in M365 Copilot Chat

🚨 The Signal: AI administrators can now pin specific Copilot agents for all or selected users. This centralises access to approved agents, reducing the risk of users interacting with unapproved or less secure AI tools and improving the governance of agentic AI within the tenant.

The Impact

AI administrators are affected by new configuration options, with a positive security impact by enabling better control over AI agent usage.

• AI Administrators: Gain new controls to manage agent visibility.
• End Users: Will see pre-approved agents, reducing discovery of unmanaged agents.
• Security Teams: Benefit from enhanced control over AI agent exposure and usage.

The Action

1. Review existing AI agent usage policies and identify agents for pinning.
2. Navigate to Microsoft 365 Admin Center > Settings > Microsoft Copilot > Agents.
3. Select the desired agent(s) and use the 'Pin' option.
4. Define the scope (all users or specific groups) for pinned agents.
5. Communicate pinned agent availability and usage guidelines to end-users.

Domain: Agentic-AI · Impact: medium · Workload: Other