IT &amp; Governance

The Frontier program: early access to Microsoft Copilot

Frontier is your door to the next Copilot features, ahead of everyone else. Here's a clear rundown of this early-access program: what it is, who it's for, how IT turns it on (with screenshots), how to spot a Frontier feature with real examples, its benefits and its caveats.

Automate your Copilot watch: a monthly « What's New » generated and sent by Cowork

Cowork's real superpower is running a recurring mission for you. Here's a ready-to-schedule prompt that, every month, reads the « What's New in Microsoft Copilot » article on the Microsoft Community Hub, produces a structured summary, then emails it in a branded layout and posts it to your Teams channels.

The 1P agents of Microsoft Copilot: the full tour

You know the generalist Copilot. But did you know Microsoft already ships a small team of ready-to-use specialists? These are the 1P (first-party) agents, « Built by Microsoft »: Analyst, Researcher, Plan My Day, Workflows… Here's who does what, sorted by family, with concrete examples.

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GPT-5.6 arrives in Microsoft Copilot

GPT-5.6 becomes Copilot's default model: stronger reasoning, native Work IQ integration and better quality in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Here's where to select it and what actually changes.

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Deploy official Brand Kits (IT side)

Enable tenant-wide “Official” Brand Kits: create the Brand Managers security group and configure the policy in config.office.com.

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Build a Copilot agent for a business use case

With Agent Builder, anyone can create their own agent, no code: describe it in natural language, add your instructions, enable options (images, sources) or start from a ready-made template.

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Free resources to support your upskilling on Copilot

You don't need paid training to get started with Copilot. Here are the free official resources, one dead-simple habit to learn, and two agents that are too often overlooked.

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Organization prompts: structure and reuse your Copilot interactions

Available with and without a Copilot M365 license: publish prompts at the organization level to give your users ready-to-use, consistent and reusable starting points.

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Cowork: understanding value consumed, not price

Cowork isn't reasoned about like one more license, but like value consumed: you pay for the work actually done. Let's look at the four-building-block framework, how to classify missions (Light, Medium, Heavy) to size a budget, why pay-as-you-go is interesting, and how to spot your best use cases.

Cowork: setting up the billing policy and Cost Management

Before launching Cowork, IT has to set up a billing policy: without it, nothing runs. Let's see where it lives (Cost Management), how an Azure subscription works, the difference between PAYGO and Capacity Packs, and above all how to activate the policy and set monthly and per-user limits to keep the budget under control.

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GPT-6 Astra in Cowork and Copilot Studio: delegate more complex work

GPT-6 Astra brings clearer understanding to complex work you delegate to Copilot. Discover its strengths, how it is grounded in your work context, and its current availability, limited to Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio.

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🛡️ Governance & trust

Security, compliance and deployment steering: Copilot Dashboard, EDP and reasons to trust Microsoft Copilot. The dedicated building block to frame a rollout with confidence.

Skills in declarative agents: capabilities on demand

Skills add reusable capabilities to declarative agents. Learn how to add them, how an agent combines them to handle an Outlook request, and which safeguards remain in place.

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Set up Copilot usage tracking with the Copilot Dashboard

Turn on the Copilot Dashboard “out of the box” in a few clicks from the M365 admin center, check your org chart, then move to custom reports and Power BI only if needed.

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Track your Copilot rollout with Copilot Dashboard

To steer adoption, the Copilot Dashboard (enabled via Viva Insights) is the best fit: track Copilot Chat and Microsoft Copilot, per app and more granularly than the native reports.

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Why can I trust Microsoft Copilot?

Your data stays your data: Copilot honors existing permissions, never trains models on your content and shares nothing across tenants. The green “Enterprise Data Protection” shield confirms it visually.

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Microsoft 365 Admin Agent: run your tenant in natural language

The Microsoft 365 Admin Agent is an agentic assistant for IT administrators: instead of navigating ten portals, you ask in natural language (« how many Copilot licenses are available? », « is Teams down? »), and the agent queries, recommends and proposes actions, always with your confirmation.

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EU Data Boundary: understanding Microsoft's commitment

The EU Data Boundary is Microsoft's initiative to frame the storage and processing of data for in-scope cloud services within the European Union and EFTA. Here's what the commitment really covers, its limits and what IT should check.

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Use GPT models in Cowork without enabling Anthropic

Haven't enabled Anthropic for GDPR or governance reasons? Cowork remains fully usable with GPT models. Enable OpenAI as a Microsoft subprocessor to surface GPT 5.5 and GPT 5.6, then let users work with a GPT-centered configuration.

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