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Standalone Copilot
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
Ah I see - so it would be tied to my current Copilot tenant.
I do have another question. How does data access work? Currently in my Power BI tenant, under Discovery settings, Discover content setting is enabled (allows users to find and request access to content they don't have access to if it was made discoverable by its owners). Are other users able to interact with/discover data/reports from data they don't have access to? Would my user base potentially expose data to Copilot which may come up in Copilot searches done by other users in the tenant?
Thanks in advance.
Hi again !
Copilot won’t show or use anything a user doesn’t already have access to. The discover content setting only makes metadata for endorsed items visible in the OneLake/Data Hub (so users can request access). It does not grant data access, and standalone Copilot searches do not include discoverable only items.
Standalone Copilot scope can find and analyze only reports/semantic models/data agents the signed in user already has permissions for. It explicitly doesn’t return items the user can’t access.
Discover content lets owners mark promoted/certified semantic models as discoverable so others can see them listed in the OneLake hub and request access.
Copilot search does not surface a semantic model just because it’s marked discoverable, users must already have direct access for it to answer questions. Copilot interactions are per user, it can only access data the current user can access, and outputs are visible only to that user unless they share them.