About policies for Copilot in your enterprise
You can set policies that control the availability of Copilot and its features in your enterprise and organizations.
There are two enforcement options for Copilot policies in your enterprise:
- Enabled - The feature is available in all organizations with Copilot enabled in your enterprise.
- Disabled - The feature is blocked for all organizations with Copilot enabled in your enterprise.
If a policy is enabled or disabled at the enterprise level, the same policy cannot be changed at the organization level.
You can configure policies for your enterprise. If no policy is chosen at the enterprise level, and multiple organizations within the enterprise choose different policies and grant access to the same users, the policy will be enforced as listed in the table.
| Policy Name | Enforced policy for multiple organizations |
|---|---|
| Copilot in .com | least restrictive |
| Copilot in the CLI | least restrictive |
| Copilot in Desktop (public preview) | least restrictive |
| Copilot Chat in the IDE | least restrictive |
| Editor preview features | least restrictive |
| Copilot Chat in Mobile | least restrictive |
| Copilot Extensions | least restrictive |
| Suggestions matching public code | most restrictive |
| Give Copilot access to Bing | least restrictive |
| Copilot access to alternative AI models | least restrictive |
| Copilot Metrics API access | most restrictive |
Copilot in .com
With a Copilot Enterprise license, you can enable "Copilot in .com" to provide members of your enterprise access to AI features on the website, including:
- Copilot Chat in .com - You can ask Copilot coding-related questions within a chat interface on . You can ask general questions or questions within a specific context such as a repository, issue, file, or symbol.
- Copilot pull request summaries - Copilot can generate a summary of the changes made in a pull request, as well as a list of impacted files, using natural language. This overview helps reviewers quickly understand the proposed changes.
- Copilot knowledge bases - Organization owners can create knowledge bases consisting of Markdown documentation across one or more repositories, allowing organization members to use that documentation as context when they ask questions in Copilot Chat in , Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code, and Copilot Chat in Visual Studio.
If you enable "Copilot in .com", you can also configure additional features:
Opt in to user feedback collection: If enabled, users can provide feedback on Copilot pull request summaries. For more information, see Creating a pull request summary with Copilot.
Opt in to preview features: If enabled, users can test new Copilot features that are not yet generally available. Be aware that previews of features may have flaws, and the features may be changed or discontinued at any time. Current previews of Copilot features include:
- Experimental languages in Copilot code review. See Using Copilot code review.
Copilot in the CLI
Copilot in the CLI is an extension for CLI which provides a chat-like interface in the terminal. You can ask Copilot for command suggestions, or for explanations of commands they run.
Copilot in Desktop (public preview)
You can generate commit messages and descriptions in Desktop based on the changes you make to your project.
Copilot Chat in the IDE
You can chat with Copilot in your IDE to get code suggestions and answers to coding-related questions without context switching.
Editor preview features
Some features of Copilot are available as preview features in your editor. You can enable or disable these features for your enterprise.
Copilot Chat in Mobile
Copilot Chat in Mobile is a chat interface that lets you interact with Copilot to ask and receive answers to coding-related questions within Mobile.
Copilot Extensions
Copilot Extensions integrate external tools with Copilot Chat, helping members of your enterprise reduce context switching, interact with tools using natural language, and customize their Copilot Chat experience.
Suggestions matching public code
Copilot includes a filter which detects code suggestions that match public code on . When the filter is enabled, Copilot checks code suggestions with their surrounding code of about 150 characters against public code on . If there is a match or near match, the suggestion will not be shown.
Give Copilot access to Bing
Copilot Chat can use Bing to provide enhanced responses by searching the internet for information related to a question. Bing search is particularly helpful when discussing new technologies or highly specific subjects.
Copilot access to alternative AI models
Note
Support for GPT-4.5 is only available on Copilot Enterprise.
By default, Copilot Chat uses a base model. If you grant access to the alternative models, members of your enterprise can choose to use these models rather than the base model. The available alternative models are:
- Claude Sonnet. See Using Claude Sonnet in Copilot Chat.
- Gemini. See Using Gemini in Copilot Chat.
- OpenAI models: See Using OpenAI GPT-4.1 in Copilot Chat.
Copilot Metrics API access
Enable this policy to allow users to use the Copilot Metrics API. See REST API endpoints for Copilot metrics.
Configuring policies for Copilot
- In the top-right corner of , click your profile photo.
- Depending on your environment, click Your enterprise, or click Your enterprises then click the enterprise you want to view.
- At the top of the page, click Policies.
- In the " Policies" section, click Copilot.
- On the " Copilot" page, click the Policies tab.
- For each policy you want to configure, click the dropdown menu and select an enforcement option.