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Prevent members from building agents in my team?
We are piloting Copilot with a small group of users, and I've discovered that someone in the pilot who happens to be a member of one of my "get support for Collaboration Tools" teams created an agent attached to my team.
As Team owner of this public Team, I disabled all "member" ability to add apps, connectors, etc. to my team or channels, but apparently there's no option for me to say "I don't want anyone building Copilots in this team"??
I don't want to turn CoPilot on or off for the whole company, or restrict which specific users can create agents, I'm looking for a way that individual Team owners can say "I don't want someone turning my Team into a Power Platform "Environment" so they can create Copilot agents."
Am I missing something, or is this really not possible?
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Hello,
Short answer: No.
Long answer:Unfortunately, it's not possible for Teams owners (whether referring to organizational teams or individual Teams workspaces) to "dont let sharing" agents if users are allowed to create them.
What you can do is view all created agents from the Microsoft 365 admin center by navigating to Settings > Integrated apps > Shared agents, and then block any agent that has been shared to Teams.
Another important thing what you can do is communicate about this. Rolling out Copilot is not a technical task, it's more about change management. Clear communication plays a crucial role in a successful Copilot deployment. It's also essential to create AI usage guidelines within your organization so that everyone understands what is allowed and what is not.
Although you can edit through Teams admin center that who can access to get the agent:Also you can control how apps are made available to a user with the Teams app in Teams Admin Center, but that's totally different, unfortunately.
