Comment by p_ing
11 days ago
> It’s “installed” at my company but basically refuses to interact with basic company data like files in sharepoint.
We make heavy utilization of Copilot Studio lite and full. Lite has quick access to SharePoint/Teams data. Full has access to _any_ data that has a Power Platform connector, REST API, MCP server, or Copilot [Graph] connector, all of which you can build or buy yourself. SAP, SQL, Databricks, you name it, Copilot Studio full can consume it.
It sounds like you don't have an M365 Copilot license but are instead using Copilot 365 Chat (the naming is horrid, absolutely).
If we have “Chat” it doesn’t even seem to have what I would describe as “quick” access. It seems to just do nothing.
Not a very compelling product in terms of tempting companies to buy a license.
You can get trial full licenses if you’re interested in it. Chat isn’t meant to be anything more than the consumer experience with some business data.
A company that’s looking to grow doesn’t wait for customers to proactively start a trial. That would involve IT departments and approvals and all that stuff.
In the pattern I described, Microsoft would just enable this feature for everyone and sit back and wait for employees to start begging their employers to expand their license because they got a taste of some great functionality.
That’s exactly what OpenAI does with ChatGPT Pro.