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The copilot chat tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat developments, including new search capabilities for scanned PDFs and images, scheduled prompts, and label inheritance. Threads discuss IT administration topics such as adoption metrics in the Copilot Dashboard, usage reports for GCC High and DoD tenants, and integration with Agent 365 and Microsoft Forms. Coverage also examines third-party backup and recovery options like Druva, clarifying that these are not replacements for Microsoft Purview compliance controls. Roadmap updates, licensing considerations, and deployment timelines are recurring themes, helping IT teams understand eligibility, data access, and governance implications of Copilot Chat features.
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    CVE-2026-58616 Discloses Data via Edge Copilot Chat

    CVE-2026-58616 identifies an information-disclosure vulnerability in Copilot Chat in Microsoft Edge, according to Rapid7’s vulnerability database. The published description says a race condition can allow an authorized attacker to disclose information over a network; it does not describe an...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Session Persistence Plan Is Cancelled

    Microsoft has cancelled Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 500638, the planned Copilot Chat change that would create a visible session-history entry as soon as a user sends their first prompt. The cancellation, posted September 18, 2026, applies to the roadmap item’s remaining rollout promise across...
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    Teams Copilot Chat Targets GCC High, DoD Calls in October

    Microsoft says it plans to bring Copilot Chat to Teams chats, channels, calls, and meetings for Government Community Cloud, GCC High, and Department of Defense tenants in October 2026. The roadmap entry, ID 569214, is still marked “In development,” so government IT teams should treat it as a...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Memory Rollout Ends October 2026

    Microsoft 365 Copilot is beginning a revised general-availability rollout that lets Copilot Chat infer preferences and work context from prior chats, while giving users redesigned controls for saved memories and chat-history personalization. The operational issue for IT teams is less the new...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks Drops Add-On for Eligible Users

    Microsoft expanded Copilot Notebooks and its Study Guide feature to eligible Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat users in commercial and education tenants without requiring the paid Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on. The practical change is significant for IT departments and schools: users on qualifying...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Plans Inline Code Blocks for September

    Microsoft is planning to add inline Code Blocks to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in September 2026, moving previews of generated code, charts, diagrams, and similar structured output from a separate code canvas into the conversation itself. Roadmap item 569429 is marked In development, which means...
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    Copilot Chat Improves Search for Scanned PDFs and Images

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is being positioned to retrieve text from scanned PDFs and from images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files—a useful expansion for organizations whose records are full of screenshots, photographed whiteboards, and legacy paper documents. But the practical...
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    Druva Copilot Chat Backup Is Recovery, Not a Purview Replacement

    Druva’s new AI Resilience portfolio is now on the market, but Microsoft 365 administrators should treat the headline as an independent recovery and records-retention layer for Copilot Chat, not as a replacement for Microsoft Purview’s built-in compliance controls. Druva says it can preserve...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Highlighted Text: August GA After March Rollout

    Microsoft has updated Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 522616 to put “Ask Copilot about highlighted response content” into development for general availability on the web in August 2026. The feature is intended to let a user highlight a sentence, paragraph, or table inside a Copilot response, invoke...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Adds Scheduled Prompts and Label Inheritance — Megathread

    Microsoft’s Copilot rollout is continuing across Windows-facing Microsoft 365 apps, Copilot Chat, and the company’s agent-development stack, but the August 1 report from Bold News compresses several separate releases into what reads like a single platform launch. Microsoft’s own release record...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Metrics Roll Out November 2026

    Microsoft is preparing to add organization-level Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat adoption metrics for users who do not have Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses, and most IT teams should keep that visibility unless privacy, labor, compliance, or internal-policy requirements demand otherwise. The urgent...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Connects Agent 365 Agents in August 2026

    Microsoft plans to let agents published to Agent 365 act as connected agents inside Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and declarative agents, according to a new Microsoft 365 roadmap entry. The feature, Roadmap ID 567670, is listed as in development with general availability targeted for August 2026...
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    Microsoft Forms Surveys Agent Launches for Copilot Users (May 2026)

    Microsoft has marked Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 553136 as launched, bringing Copilot Chat directly into Microsoft Forms and adding access to the Surveys Agent from within the web app. The feature reached general availability in May 2026 for worldwide standard multi-tenant tenants, according to...
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    Copilot Chat Usage Reports Arrive for GCC High & DoD Admin Centers (July 2026)

    Microsoft added Roadmap ID 567121 on July 6, 2026, confirming that a new Microsoft 365 admin center usage report for Copilot Chat is in development for GCC, GCC High, and DoD tenants, with general availability planned for July 2026. The feature sounds administrative, almost mundane: a dashboard...
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    Microsoft Copilot “Show Me More” Feature Canceled: Why Enterprise Search Still Hurts

    Microsoft cancelled Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 501576 on July 2, 2026, ending a planned Copilot Chat feature that would have let users ask for more search results from emails, meetings, calendar items, and files during an ongoing conversation. The feature was small on the surface and revealing...
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    Copilot Chat Gains Search Inside Scanned PDFs and Image Text (July 2026)

    Microsoft updated Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 559613 on June 30, 2026, confirming that Copilot Chat is in development to better match search results from scanned PDFs and text inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with general availability planned for July 2026. The feature...
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    Copilot Button Disappeared in Word Excel PowerPoint: Licensing Change (Apr 15, 2026)

    The Copilot AI button disappeared from many Office apps because Microsoft changed Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat availability on April 15, 2026, removing the in-app Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote entry point for many users without a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license. That is the simple...
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    VS Code 1.116 Upgrade for GitHub Copilot: Built-in Chat, Agent Logs, Terminal Tools

    Teams already using GitHub Copilot should pilot Visual Studio Code 1.116 now, because the April 15, 2026 release makes Copilot Chat built in, adds locally persisted Agent Debug Logs, and lets agent tools interact with visible terminal sessions, including REPLs and interactive scripts. Teams with...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Licensing Explained: Base Plans, USL Seats, and Agent Costs

    Microsoft 365 Copilot is a paid per-user add-on license, typically priced at $30 per user per month for enterprise customers, that requires an eligible Microsoft 365 or Office 365 base subscription and unlocks Copilot experiences across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365...
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    CVE-2026-45482: Path Traversal Auth Bypass in VS Code Copilot Chat

    Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-45482 on June 9, 2026, as an Important-rated security feature bypass in the Microsoft Visual Studio Code Copilot Chat extension, caused by a path traversal weakness that can let a local unauthorized attacker bypass an authentication-related security feature. The...