Copilot Studio guidance maps agent governance across Microsoft admin roles
📚 **Microsoft’s new Copilot Studio governance guidance assigns connected responsibilities across platform, identity, compliance and security teams.
** Power Platform administrators lead environment strategy and connector boundaries; Entra administrators manage agent identity and resource access; Purview teams address sensitive information and supported agent interactions.
The article also covers estate-wide observability and threat response. It distinguishes agent identities, agents acting for users and agent user accounts, whose access patterns are not governed identically.
The aim is layered governance across the agent lifecycle, with controls applied according to supported interaction patterns rather than treating one admin portal as the owner of every responsibility.
Partner briefing
- What it is
Microsoft published a cross-product agent-governance ownership guide.
- What’s changing
Responsibilities span maker environments, identity, information protection, observability and threat response.
- Why it matters
The guide distinguishes identity patterns and shows how administrative controls complement each other.
- Who it affects
Power Platform, Entra, Purview and security administrators governing Copilot Studio agents.