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Microsoft Copilot chat in Business Central

GA · 12 min in 3 videos · dev relevance low · documented as Enable Microsoft Copilot chat experience high match

Microsoft Copilot chat in Business Central

A unified Microsoft Copilot chat opens from the Copilot button in Business Central, replacing the old Copilot UI. It reasons over Business Central data within the user's permissions and context, with progress messages, tables and citations.

Area: Copilot and agents. Status: GA. Developer relevance: low. Airtime: 12 min across 3 videos, demoed.

Status evidence

  • 0:05 in "What's new: Demystifying the New Microsoft Copilot Chat in Business Central": "the new Microsoft copilot chat to come to all our users with this release"

Where they talk about it

Quotes

  • 0:18 "Business Central has new Copilot chat, uh Microsoft Copilot built directly in Business Central." - Names the feature the video is about and says it is built directly into the product.
  • 0:18 "It's a unified Microsoft Copilot uh experience across all Microsoft" - States the design decision to use one shared Copilot experience across Microsoft products.
  • 0:34 "It respects your permissions. It respects your context uh and everything that um Microsoft and Business Central knows about your activities." - Confirms Copilot answers follow the user's permissions and context.
  • 0:49 "If you have the additional Microsoft Copilot license, uh your uh data is also coming from uh Work IQ." - Names the license prerequisite for pulling in Work IQ data.
  • 0:56 "Copilot pulls data from the internet and from various other sources and provides all the answers I need." - States that the chat is not limited to Business Central data and can use outside sources.
  • 1:43 "can answer questions about Business Central uh data, but also questions that are not fully related to Business Central." - Shows the scope goes beyond Business Central data.
  • 1:45 "it didn't use Business Central data, but still it was very useful for Business Central user." - Clarifies that the first demo used no Business Central data, so it shows general help only.
  • 2:10 "Copilot reasons over data. It might It might take a little bit longer." - Notes that data analysis answers can take longer than simple questions.

Caveats mentioned

  • The speaker says you have access to it in your newest Business Central, but does not say preview or GA.
  • The speaker calls this the first and simple example; more detail comes in the next video.

Prerequisites mentioned

  • The new version of Business Central
  • Latest Business Central release

Documented features match

Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.

Tags: copilot, chat, ux, end-user, permissions

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.