Environments in Microsoft Copilot Studio

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Microsoft Copilot Studio gives you the flexibility to create copilots in different environments. An environment is a space to store, manage, and share your organization's business data. The copilots that you create are stored in an environment. Apps and flows are also stored in environments. Environments might have different roles, security requirements, and target audiences, and each environment is created in a separate location.

When creating a new copilot, it's created in the currently selected environment.

Select your bot's environment from the list of environments that you have access to in supported data locations.

Screenshot of the copilot created in the selected environment.

To create a copilot in an environment where you don't have access, you need to be a system administrator or contact the system administrator. Then, you need to complete the following steps:

  1. Create a copilot in the environment (this step installs the necessary Microsoft Copilot Studio solutions).

  2. Assign the security role of "copilot author" to you in the environment.

To assign the security role of "copilot author," Microsoft Power Platform admin must go to Microsoft Power Platform admin center, select the environment, and then select Settings.

Microsoft Power Platform admin center with the Environments tab selected and the Settings button selected.

In Users + permissions, select Security roles.

Settings with the Users + permissions section expanded and Security roles highlighted in that section.

Select Bot Author.

The list of Roles with Bot Author highlighted.

Select + Add people.

Microsoft Power Platform admin center open to Environments > Contoso (default) > Settings > Security roles > Bot Author with the Add People button highlighted.

You can search for the person whom you are looking for, select the name, and then select Add.

Choose the people who should be added to the role.

The upper part of the screen shows a successful notification ribbon and the name of the user.

Message showing "Successfully added 1 user and 0 teams to the Bot Author security role."

You successfully gave a user bot maker access in an environment.