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This policy enables IT admins to block Copilot responses that might infer emotions, make evaluations, discuss personal traits, and use context to deduce answers. When this policy is applied it restricts Copilot’s ability to make inferences or evaluations about people or groups when prompted to do so by users. Users cannot disable this policy. The policy applies to Copilot in Teams meetings.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 411568

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[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early November 2024 and expect to complete by early December 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

When Copilot inference and evaluation is set by the IT admin for a specific group, that group will not be able to get Copilot responses to sentiment related prompts. For that group, Copilot is blocked from answering inference and evaluation based prompts. 

[What you need to do to prepare:]

An IT admin can set the policy for enabling or disabling Copilot limited mode for a group using Microsoft Graph API. Here are the steps:

1. Login to Microsoft Graph Explorer: The admin needs to log in to their tenant on Microsoft Graph Explorer.

2. Get Current Policy Value:

• Use the URL: https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/copilot/admin/settings/limitedMode
• Set the method to GET to retrieve the current policy value for the group.

3. Update Policy Value:

• Change the method to PATCH.
• In the request body, include the following JSON structure

       {

            “isEnabledForGroup”: true //true or false. Default is false. False means regular copilot, true means inferences and evaluations are blocked.

            “groupId”: “your-group-id” // Default is null. This should be provided when value for isEnabledForGroup is true. This should be null or ”” when value for isEnabledForGroup is false.

      }

• Replace “your-group-id” with the actual group ID obtained from the Microsoft Entra portal or M365 main portal.

4. Run the Query: Execute the query to update the policy. This will save the new policy value.

5. Handling Multiple Groups: If the policy needs to be applied to multiple groups, create a single group that includes all the required subgroups and use its group ID. 

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