Microsoft Copilot Studio in Teams

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Microsoft Copilot Studio is available as a standalone web app and as a discrete app within Microsoft Teams. Most functionality between the two apps is the same. However, you might have different reasons for choosing one version or the other based on your requirements.

Microsoft Copilot Studio web app

Use the standalone Microsoft Copilot Studio web app if you:

  • Are an IT administrator or consultant and want to create agents for your customers to engage with.
  • Want to create agents for external customers.
  • Have used agent services in the past and want to trial or test Microsoft Copilot Studio.
  • Are familiar with advanced conversational AI concepts such as entities and variables and want to create complex agents.

Access the standalone web app.

Microsoft Copilot Studio app in Microsoft Teams

Use the Microsoft Copilot Studio discrete app in Microsoft Teams if you:

  • Are an employee or member of an organization or team and want to create agents to answer common questions that are posed by other employees or teammates.
  • Want to use advanced concepts, such as entities and variables, but have the agent available only internally.
  • Want to create and distribute an agent in the shortest time possible.

Screenshot of Microsoft Copilot Studio in Microsoft Teams.

The Microsoft Copilot Studio app in Microsoft Teams supports single sign-on (SSO), which means that agents can sign the user in silently without having the user enter their credentials.

Microsoft Copilot Studio in Microsoft Teams doesn't require more licensing, because the license is included with Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

Important

Access is limited to membership in the Microsoft team to which the agent is deployed. You can't deploy the agent to other channels.

Limitations

Microsoft Copilot Studio in Microsoft Teams has the following limitations:

  • It's limited to the standard Power Automate connectors available for flows that are triggered from Microsoft Copilot Studio.
  • You can integrate it with Azure Bot Framework Skills, but it requires a Microsoft Copilot Studio standalone license.
  • It can't integrate Microsoft Bot Framework dialogs, and it can't be used with Azure Bot Framework Composer.
  • It can't be included in solutions.

Service limits

Microsoft Copilot Studio in Microsoft Teams is limited to 10 sessions for each user every 24 hours.