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Summary
- Ability to govern Copilot agent development and enforce governance policies.
- Administrators can choose authentication methods for agent interactions: authenticate with Microsoft Entra ID, authenticate manually, or allow anonymous access.
- The feature modernizes the existing Data Policy virtual connector to enhance scalability.
- Most restrictive authentication policy applies if access is blocked in either the new feature or the virtual connector.
- Recommended to use the new setting in the Power Platform admin center for better management through groups and rules.
Admin Impact: Low
User Impact: Low
Release Start: 21 Dec 2025
Release End: 21 Dec 2025
Services: Power Platform
Category: Stay informed
Tags: New Feature
History
11/21/2025 Item Added to Message Center
Microsoft Message
We are announcing the ability to govern Copilot agent development in your environments and enforce governance policies for Copilot agents. This feature will reach general avaialability on December 21, 2025.
How does this affect me?
This feature allows administrators to configure authentication for all agent interactions in the environment. Admins can select one of the following options:
- Authenticate with Microsoft or Authenticate Manually – This allows you to force authentication through Microsoft Entra ID or set up manual authentication.
- No authentication allows anonymous access.
The Authentication for agents feature is a modernized framework of the existing Data Policy virtual connector, Chat without Microsoft Entra ID, helping you scale through environment-level configurations and rules.
Please note: If you block anonymous access in either place, at runtime the most restrictive behavior is enforced, and it will be blocked. If you’re using both the virtual connector and the Authentication for agents setting in the Security area of the Power Platform admin center, access must be allowed in both places for it to be allowed at runtime.
We recommend using the Authentication for agents setting in the Power Platform admin center to leverage the capability of groups and rules.
What do I need to do to prepare?
This message is for awareness, and no action is required.