Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): People Skills- removal and deletion admin control

🚨 The Signal: Admins can now permanently delete all People Skills data from their Microsoft 365 tenant. This provides full control over skills data for compliance and offboarding, removing it from Copilot and user profiles.

The Impact

Admins are affected by a new data deletion control, reducing data retention risk.

• Security Teams: Reduced risk of data sprawl from unmanaged skills data.
• Compliance Teams: Improved ability to meet data deletion and privacy requirements.
• Admins: New control to manage and delete organizational skills data.
• End Users: Skills data will no longer appear on profiles or be used by Copilot if deleted.

The Action

1. Navigate to Microsoft 365 admin center.
2. Go to Settings > Org settings > People Skills.
3. Locate and use the new control to permanently remove People Skills data if required for compliance.

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