Azure AI Search index as knowledge source

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Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Nov 11, 2024	Mar 2025

Business value

Makers can build copilots that use pre-built Azure AI Search indexes as knowledge for more relevant and accurate grounded responses.

Feature details

Makers will be able to use pre-built indexes (indexes that were built by pro-developers) with minimal friction and low cost, as grounding data for their copilots built using Microsoft Copilot Studio. Such copilots enable users to ask questions in natural language about their enterprise systems being used within their Power Platform tenants. Microsoft will build on the natural language to query approach released with Microsoft Dataverse knowledge and extend the same to copilots using Azure AI Search index as knowledge.