Microsoft 365 Copilot Search General Availability

Microsoft 365 Copilot Search, an AI-powered search experience, will be generally available mid-July 2025 for eligible users. It integrates with Microsoft 365 Copilot app across platforms, leveraging Microsoft Graph and connectors for personalized, context-aware answers. Review documentation and ensure proper licensing. Compliance considerations include data processing and AI capabilities.

We’re introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Search, a new AI-powered, enterprise-grade search experience that will be generally available starting mid-July 2025 for users with an eligible Microsoft 365 Copilot license. This unified search experience is accessible through the Microsoft 365 Copilot app across web, mobile, and desktop platforms.

Copilot Search leverages Microsoft Graph and Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors to index content across Microsoft 365 and third-party apps. It interprets user context, natural language, behavioral signals, and organizational relationships to deliver highly personalized, context-aware answers to complex queries. Integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot chat, it enables users to move seamlessly from information discovery to task execution using action-oriented queries.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 490778

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: Rolling out early July 2025, expected to complete by mid-July 2025.

General Availability: Rolling out mid-August 2025, expected to complete by late August 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Users with an eligible Microsoft 365 Copilot license will experience a new, intelligent search interface within the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on desktop, web, and mobile. Those without an eligible license will continue to use the classic Microsoft Search experience.

[What you can do to prepare:]

• Review the documentation to understand capabilities and deployment considerations: Microsoft 365 Copilot Search
• Ensure eligible users are licensed appropriately to access the new experience.

[Compliance considerations:]

• Alters processing/storage of existing customer data: Yes – indexes and interprets content across Microsoft 365 and third-party apps
• Introduces/modifies AI/ML capabilities: Yes – introduces AI-powered search and task execution
• New generative AI interaction for end users: Yes – enables action-oriented queries and Copilot chat integration
• Impacts Purview capabilities: Maybe – depending on how indexed content interacts with DLP, labels, and eDiscovery
• Changes to compliance monitoring/reporting: Maybe – Copilot Search may influence how data access and usage are logged