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Turn off Project Manager agent and Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner for your organization

Overview

The Project Manager agent handles everything from plan creation to executing tasks for you and the team. Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner offers an in-app natural language chat experience, allowing your users to request updates to their plans and receive summaries and insights from the plan content. As an admin, you can turn these features on or off. When you turn off Project Manager agent and Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner, the functionality is hidden from your users.

Security and Privacy

Project Manager agent, Copilot in Planner, and Microsoft 365 are built on Microsoft’s comprehensive approach to security, compliance, and privacy.

Project Manager agent plans provide the same auditing capabilities as premium plans (previously Project for the Web projects). To learn more about these auditing capabilities, see Planner Premium audit log activities.

For more information about security and privacy in Microsoft 365 Copilot, see Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Prerequisites and licensing

The following list contains the prerequisites for users to be able to access Project Manager agent in Planner:

Prerequisites

Follow the steps in Prerequisites for making Planner changes in Windows PowerShell to make Planner changes in Windows PowerShell.

Turn off Project Manager agent and Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner

Note

It might take up to an hour to reflect the policy changes.

Open PowerShell and run the following command to turn off Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner:

Set-PlannerConfiguration -AllowPlannerCopilot $false

To turn on Project Manager agent and Microsoft 365 Copilot in Planner, run the following command:

Set-PlannerConfiguration -AllowPlannerCopilot $true

To verify your settings, run the following command:

Get-PlannerConfiguration

The value for -AllowPlannerCopilot returned by the 'Get-PlannerConfiguration' command shows whether these features are turned on for your organization.