MC721853: Microsoft New feedback button

Announcement ID	MC952883		Published Date	12-10-2024
Service	General		Last Updated	12-10-2024
Category	Stay informed		Expiration Date	03-31-2025
Roadmap ID			Action Required by Date
Tags	Admin impact, New feature, User impact

Summary
SharePoint introduces a Pay-as-you-go billing model for Agents, starting mid-January 2025. Admins must set up billing in the Microsoft 365 admin center using an Azure subscription and resource group. This allows unlicensed users to access Agents, while licensed users continue as per their terms.

More Information

We're introducing a pay-as-you-go (PayG) billing model for Agents in SharePoint allowing organizations to use an Azure subscription to pay for the service based on the number of queries used. When this will happen: Pay-as-you-go billing for Agents in SharePoint is expected to be released starting mid-January 2025. Pay-as-you-go services are disabled by default and services will be available to be used only after PayG billing is set up. General Availability (WW): We will begin rolling out mid-January 2024 and expected to complete by early February 2024. How this will affect your organization: With this update, admins can now provide users without Copilot licenses with the ability to use and create agents on any SharePoint site or document library they have access to. Users with Microsoft 365 Copilot seat licenses can continue using agents in SharePoint according to their license terms.  What you need to do to prepare: To use agents in SharePoint on a pay-as-you-go basis, admins must first set up billing and activate the service in the Microsoft 365 admin center. An Azure subscription and resource group are required to set up pay-as-you-go billing. Admins need to have the owner or contributor role for the Azure subscription to setup billing. Select Activate pay-as-you-go services from the Setup page to get started. Follow these steps to enable PAYG billing for Agents in SharePoint: Visit the https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home#/syntex/documents as a Global Admin or SharePoint Admin Click Pay-as-you-go services in org settings or Activate pay-as-you-go under setup. Go to "Agents in SharePoint" Tab under Billing Tab Setup billing by adding Subscription, Region, and Resource group. To use pay-as-you go for Agents in SharePoint, you need: An Azure subscription. An Azure resource group in that subscription. For information about how to create an Azure subscription, see Create your initial Azure subscriptions. For information about how to create an Azure resource group, see Manage Azure resource groups by using the Azure portal. Note: The use of PayG to allow unlicensed users to utilize Agents in SharePoint will respect any controls in place to manage Copilot within the organization.