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Finance Solution in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft announce that the Finance Solution in Microsoft 365 Copilot is now generally available. You might have heard of it by a different name since it’s a product that’s already undergone a series of name changes – Copilot for Finance and Finance Agents to name a couple. Now it’s essentially a set of Agents designed to automate various financial tasks across apps like Excel and Outlook, connecting to ERP systems such as Dynamics 365 and SAP. From a licensing perspective, you need to be licensed for Microsoft 365 Copilot and the relevant ERP system.

Find the announcement article here: https://bit.ly/43o2r66.

Copilot has a new face, and 12 new features!

The ever-evolving Copilot receives its Fall Release, which aims to make this assistant more personal, useful, and human-centred. The new features include better collaboration, adaptation to the user, deeper memory, and more complex understanding of context. Its capability in health and education has also advanced, and more functionality has been added to Copilot Mode in Edge, which reasons over your tabs to become your browser-based buddy. Perhaps the “highlight”, Copilot has a new face – an expressive, customisable, and warm character called Mico.

Certain features are region restricted, and you can read the full details here: https://bit.ly/47HmeyS.

Updated Copilot Studio Licensing Guide

The October 2025 Copilot Studio Licensing Guide has been reissued with a few interesting and useful changes. Version two adds details of the newly announced Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan. Supplementing this are explanations of Copilot Credit Commit Units (CCCUs), and how they compare with the other options to purchase Copilot Credits. Normally residing in the Power Platform Licensing Guide, you can now find handy tables outlining Dataverse capacity Add-ons and meters in this guide too. As well as the additions, a couple of notable sections have been removed. The text about Dynamics 365 Agents in Paid Public Preview no longer appears and the information about Agent Flow Actions has gone too.

Find it along with our other Licensing Guides here: https://bit.ly/3X2vWGT, and our blog post about the Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan here: https://bit.ly/3Jp1mUS.

Copilot Pre-Purchase Plan

Copilot Credits are the currency of Agent consumption for many Agents in the Microsoft world. Previously you’ve been able to purchase a Capacity Pack which gives you 25,000 Copilot Credits for $200 a month, or purchase on a Pay-As-You-Go basis at $0.01 per Copilot Credit. Now there’s a third option – a Pre-Purchase Plan – where you can buy large amounts of Copilot Credits (300,000 upwards) that you can use at any time during the next year, jolly handy, of course, for seasonal spikes. As you might expect, there are discounts available the more Copilot Credits you purchase, and in fact there are 9 different tiers with discounts ranging from 5% to 20% compared to the PAYG pricing.

Find the announcement article with a sample scenario and the full discount tier table here: https://bit.ly/4ny4AmS.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and the Microsoft 365 Apps

The various Copilot offerings have somewhat evolved over time! We have seen Microsoft Copilot become Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, and there are new features being added all the time. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is a collection of AI features, the newest of which is chat functionality within the Microsoft 365 Apps. This means that if you have a valid Microsoft 365 or Office 365 licence, you’ll now find a snazzy sidebar in your apps which is aware of the context of the document you have open, and will provide natural language assistance based on what it sees. No need for a separate Microsoft 365 Copilot licence!

There is more information on the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3DZCgca, along with eligibility criteria here: http://bit.ly/4oycQEb.

Power BI Licensing Deck

Microsoft’s Power BI Licensing Deck is a useful resource for details on licensing across the Power BI portfolio: Power BI Pro, Power BI Premium Per User, Power BI Embedded, and Microsoft Fabric. We found the Fabric section particularly interesting with its pages on how Capacity Units (CUs) work and Copilot in Microsoft Fabric, as well as the licensing scenarios covering Power BI Premium and Power BI Embedded.

Help yourself to this Licensing Deck here: https://bit.ly/42Psx1x.

Copilot Studio Licensing Guide

There’s an updated (October 2025) Copilot Studio Licensing Guide with a new section for Computer Use – a capability that enables Agents to interact with websites and desktop apps by clicking buttons, selecting menus, and typing into fields on the screen. Customers have two options for running Computer Use: a hosted browser, powered by Windows 365, or using a Windows machine that they own and manage.

You can find out more about Computer Use as it enters public preview here: https://bit.ly/3LfpGc5, and grab the Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/487GUSk.

Changes to Copilot licensing

Microsoft announce a number of changes to Copilot licensing.

Firstly, there’s more usage of AI tools included in a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, and consumption is now measured in Copilot Credits, rather than messages.

Secondly, there’s a spot of renaming for the Copilot Studio experiences: Agent Builder, when you’re using Copilot Studio as a Microsoft 365 Copilot user, is now called Copilot Studio Lite, with the full experience being (helpfully) called Copilot Studio Full.

And there are changes to the Role Based Copilots too – from 10 October, 2025 if you’ve got a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence you won’t need to pay extra for Copilot for Sales, Copilot for Service, or Copilot for Finance (aka Finance Agents) – they’ll just be available to install from the Agent Store.

Grab the datasheet with this information here: https://bit.ly/46597I7.

Security Copilot capacity calculator

Microsoft announce the availability of the Security Copilot capacity calculator to help organisations estimate their SCU capacity needs.

You can find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3Izx4hr, and try out the calculator here: https://bit.ly/3IuSts6.

Copilot in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Microsoft announce that Copilot is now available in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center for administrators to ask natural language questions as they tackle unfamiliar tasks. As long as an organisation has purchased 1 licence of Microsoft 365 Copilot, anyone with access to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center can use Copilot in this way.

Find the announcement article here: https://bit.ly/4ie2d73.