Based on your feedback, we’re simplifying the default pinning configuration for Copilot Chat in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, Outlook, and Teams. This change only impacts users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

Today, Global admins can pin Copilot Chat for their organization using the Pin Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat admin setting in the Microsoft 365 admin center. When no action is taken, the default configuration is that Copilot Chat is not pinned, but users are prompted to pin it.

We received feedback that this prompting can interrupt a user’s workflow as well as cause them to skip pinning. Once the prompt is skipped, users don’t know how to access Copilot in their apps.

To solve this, we are simplifying the admin setting to two options: “Pin” (the new default configuration) and “Do not pin.” If a tenant’s current configuration is “Allow users to be asked” (the current default configuration), it will transition to the new default configuration “Pin,” and Copilot Chat will be pinned for users.