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Standalone Copilot
The following message is being shown in the admin portal: Standalone Copilot will be enabled by default. This will happen on or after Sept 7, 2025. To opt-out of this automatic rollout, turn the standalone Copilot setting on, then off again before then.
Power BI tenant is in Canada and the Copilot tenant is in USA. From the documentation that I read, it seems like the Azure OpenAI Service used to power Fabric Copilot is available only in US datacenters and on one EU datacenter.
If this feature is not turned off and if users are allowed to interact with this service, would it violate the data residency of Power BI data on the Canada tenant when being ingested by Copilot/Azure OpenAI Service? What impact does it have on the data flow?
Thanks!
Hello !
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The admin portal message indicates that Standalone Copilot will be enabled by default on or after September 7, 2025, unless the setting is toggled off in advance since it is managed in the Fabric admin portal under Copilot and Azure OpenAI Service tenant settings.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/admin/service-admin-portal-copilot
Your Power BI tenant residing in Canada means all internal customer data is stored in the Canadian Azure geography, unless configured otherwise via multi-geo options.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/white-paper-powerbi-security
Fabric Copilot is backed by Azure OpenAI Service, which is typically available in a limited set of regions primarily the US and certain EU datacenters (and not yet in Canada). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/copilot-enable-power-bi
Microsoft allows cross-region data processing for Copilot, but only with an explicit opt-in via admin-configured consent. Without consent, Copilot features will not operate if they would require endpoints outside your resident region. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-service/copilot-data-movement-geos
Hi sba_ur ,
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community Forum.
Please refer below Microsoft official documents.
Copilot in Power BI tutorial - Discover data and ask questions - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Move data across regions for Copilots and generative AI features - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn
Standalone Copilot experience in Power BI (preview) - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Overview of Copilot for Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have any further queries.
Regards,
Dinesh
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Hello !
Thank you for posting on Microsoft Fabric community !
The admin portal message indicates that Standalone Copilot will be enabled by default on or after September 7, 2025, unless the setting is toggled off in advance since it is managed in the Fabric admin portal under Copilot and Azure OpenAI Service tenant settings.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/admin/service-admin-portal-copilot
Your Power BI tenant residing in Canada means all internal customer data is stored in the Canadian Azure geography, unless configured otherwise via multi-geo options.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/white-paper-powerbi-security
Fabric Copilot is backed by Azure OpenAI Service, which is typically available in a limited set of regions primarily the US and certain EU datacenters (and not yet in Canada). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/copilot-enable-power-bi
Microsoft allows cross-region data processing for Copilot, but only with an explicit opt-in via admin-configured consent. Without consent, Copilot features will not operate if they would require endpoints outside your resident region. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-service/copilot-data-movement-geos
Thank you for your reply.
Could you please help me understand if the Standalone Copilot is a separate instance of Copilot? Or does it create an agent within my tenant's Copilot that will be used by Power BI?It is not a separate tenant or environment. Microsoft isn’t spinning up a brand-new parallel Copilot service. It is more like a shared experience of Copilot, independent of a specific app like Word, Excel, or Power BI...
That's why it's called standalone, it's a web based/chat-style Copilot experience available in the Fabric/M365 portal, where users can interact with Copilot directly instead of only inside Power BI or Excel and it uses the same Copilot service instance already tied to your tenant.
sba_ur Yes, this was announced August 4th, 2025. Standalone Copilot in Power BI will be turned on by default in September | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI
What you are saying is correct except that Azure OpenAI is available in the EU and US.
Copilot admin settings - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn
You can turn off the setting "Data sent to Azure OpenAI can be stored outside your capacity's geographic region, compliance boundary, or national cloud instance" to prevent data residency issues.
Thank you for your reply.
Could you please help me understand if the Standalone Copilot is a separate instance of Copilot? Or does it create an agent within my tenant's Copilot that will be used by Power BI?
Hi sba_ur ,
Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community Forum.
Please refer below Microsoft official documents.
Copilot in Power BI tutorial - Discover data and ask questions - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Move data across regions for Copilots and generative AI features - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn
Standalone Copilot experience in Power BI (preview) - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Overview of Copilot for Power BI - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have any further queries.
Regards,
Dinesh
Hi sba_ur ,
We haven’t heard from you on the last response and was just checking back to see if you have a resolution yet. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
Regards,
Dinesh
Hi @sba_ur ,
We haven’t heard from you on the last response and was just checking back to see if you have a resolution yet. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
Regards,
Dinesh
