Tag Archives: Copilot Chat

Modern Work Plan Comparison documents

The Modern Work Plan Comparison documents are updated for July 2026.

Naturally, the main changes this month are due to the extra features which have been added to a range of licenses. These include Copilot Chat enhancements, the addition of Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 to Office 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E3, an extra 50 GB mailbox storage for the SMB licences, and new Intune features for Microsoft 365 E3/E5 licenses. Advanced Threat Analytics was also removed this month, since it reached End of Support in January 2026.

There are July versions of the documents for Enterprise, SMB, Education, and US Government customers which you can find here: https://bit.ly/4hn2hS2. If you’re a subscriber, don’t forget that we help you navigate the (increasingly frequent) errors in these documents every month with our Cautionary Notes. You’ll find these using the one-click “Microsoft 365” filter in our subscriber-exclusive Licensing Guides Gallery, along with quick access to the documents and full change details: https://bit.ly/GuidesGallery. If you’re a partner and prefer the Excel version, contact us from your work email address and we’ll send it right over: info@licensingschool.co.uk.

Free 30‑day trial for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business

Microsoft announce a free 30-day trial for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business.

Available from July 2026, customers can access the trial from within Copilot Chat without needing to enter any payment information. As with the full license, you must have a valid Microsoft 365 Business license in place, and there’s a maximum of 300 users.

While a readily available trial could be a cause for compliance concerns, Microsoft provide an overview of the considerations and recommend that you have AI usage guidelines in place. To assist with this, admins, as usual, have the ability to disable trials for users within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

Find the blog announcement here: https://bit.ly/4uvlSo4, the Message Centre post here: https://bit.ly/4uzcdgt, and the prerequisites for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business here: https://bit.ly/4amhBMq.

Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents

There are updated (April 2025) Microsoft 365 plan comparison documents with a row added for Copilot Chat, and also updated for Microsoft 365 Business Premium as an eligible prerequisite for Microsoft 365 E5 Security (see our blog: https://bit.ly/42JvfVu).

These useful documents tell you which of the (many) different components are included in which Office 365/Microsoft 365 plan, and there’s a table for SMB customers (https://bit.ly/4lRG14X), one for Enterprise customers (https://bit.ly/3YDt9Fl), and still more for specialist US Government customers – one for GCC (https://bit.ly/4cCaMqc), one for GCC High (https://bit.ly/4ihKc73) and the final one for DoD (https://bit.ly/4cEMJXN).

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Microsoft announce that there are enhancements to the Microsoft Copilot experience for users with a Microsoft Entra account and, because of that, there’s a name change… Welcome Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat! It’s the use of Agents in the chat experience that’s the big news – oh, and the fact that these can be paid for on a consumption basis.

You can find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3Cj84bp, and information on how the consumption works here: https://bit.ly/4auaUXB.

Alternatively, if you’re a Licensing School subscriber join our Did You See..? training session on Wednesday 22nd January, 2025 and let us teach you all about it: https://bit.ly/3Wy2CbZ.