Azure portal is showing AI-agent-oriented home for my free-account

Question

I created a free Azure account last week in order to study to obtain AZ-900 certification. However, today the portal home page is showing nothing similar to the classic view, but a AI-agent-oriented page:

How can I switch to the classic portal home page?

Answer 1

Hello MARCELO MANOEL DE GODOY

Microsoft has started rolling out a new default Azure portal Home experience that is Copilot‑ and agent‑centric, especially for:

• New Azure tenants
• Newly created free subscriptions
• Microsoft Account (MSA)–based sign‑ins

This experience is enabled at the tenant level by Microsoft and is not controlled by user settings.

For tenants where this experience is already the default:

• The “Preview features” toggle is not exposed
• The classic Home page cannot be restored
• This is not a bug, limitation, or subscription issue

Microsoft documents that access to Copilot and agent experiences is rolled out automatically and gradually, and not all tenants receive opt‑out controls.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/copilot/agents-preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-copilot-agents-and-ai-infrastructure-innovations/

Important Clarifications:

• Azure Copilot is not mandatory to use
• There is no extra cost for Copilot
• All Azure services remain fully available
• This does not affect AZ‑900 learning or labs
• Only the Home page layout has changed

Microsoft explicitly states that Copilot and agents are embedded into the Azure portal experience, not provided as a separate optional UI.

There is no supported method to revert the Home page.

However, users can bypass the Home experience entirely by:

• Using the global search bar (“Search resources, services, and docs”)
• Opening All services directly:

    https://portal.azure.com/#view/HubsExtension/BrowseAll
  

  • Navigating directly to service blades (Virtual machines, Storage accounts, VNets, etc.)

This is the recommended and supported approach.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-overview

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Thanks,
Suchitra.