QuestionQ20

Identify an implementation and adoption strategy for Microsoft’s AI apps and services

Your organization is rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot. As part of the deployment, users must be able to use the Researcher agent to search across data stored in Microsoft SharePoint.

You need to recommend a licensing plan for this solution.

What should you recommend?

  • A a Microsoft 365 Copilot per-user add-on license
  • B pay-as-you-go
  • C a Microsoft 365 subscription entitlement
  • D a usage-based consumption license in Azure
Explanation

Microsoft 365 Copilot, including its built-in Researcher and Analyst reasoning agents, is sold as a per-user add-on license that is layered on top of an eligible base Microsoft 365 subscription (such as Microsoft 365 E3/E5, Office 365 E3/E5, Business Standard/Premium, and others). Only users assigned this dedicated Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on license can run the Researcher agent, which searches across a user's accessible work content — emails, chats, files, and SharePoint data — plus the web. A plain Microsoft 365 subscription entitlement only unlocks the free, web-grounded Copilot Chat experience, not full agents like Researcher; pay-as-you-go/usage-based billing applies to scenarios such as SharePoint agents and Copilot Chat working with shared tenant data rather than the full per-user Researcher experience; and Azure consumption-based licensing is unrelated to Microsoft 365 Copilot user licensing.

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