Work IQ usage, licensing and governance controls

TL;DR

Work IQ grounds agents with permitted information from email, meetings, chats and files. Native Microsoft 365 Copilot grounding is included for eligible licensed users, while the Copilot Studio GitHub Copilot harness, Cowork and custom API clients consume Copilot Credits. Microsoft 365 controls user spending policies; Power Platform controls environment capacity and agent limits.

Original by Anders Fjordhoj, on The Custom Engine. Read the original

This is our own summary, not a republication or full translation.

Governance takeaway

• Admins/CoE: configure both admin centers before rolling this out — set Work IQ spending policies in the Microsoft 365 admin center, allocate environment capacity in PPAC, and turn on Stop usage for agent limits.
• Leadership/Business: don’t treat a low Cowork limit as a hard stop — it still grants access, and enforcement can lag behind actual consumption, so credits can burn past the configured limit before it bites.