Microsoft is updating the Frontier Admin Control in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. The ability to assign Frontier access using Entra ID groups will be retired. This change affects AI administrators who manage Frontier access across Microsoft 365 tenants.
Timeline
- Changes between 6 and 10 November are blocked
- Change will be implemented on Monday, 10 November 2025
How does this affect your organization?
Microsoft introduced the Copilot Frontier program in May.
Beginning to rollout in phases in May, Frontier offers our customers the ability to get hands on with the latest model innovation and provide feedback before experiences are made generally available. Researcher and Analyst are the first Frontier experiences with more experiences to come to Frontier over time. These experiences are being made available under the existing preview terms of your enterprise product terms. Frontier experiences allow for personal data processing, adhering to the Data Processing Agreement (DPA).
Admins with the role AI Administrator could define who can access Copilot Frontier features with three options:
- No one
- A group of users
- Defined Entra ID groups
On 10 November, Microsoft will retire the option to use Entra ID groups. Group-based management will no longer be supported. Admins must add individual users instead of groups.
In my case, the Entra ID group option had always been problematic; the group was never displayed correctly, and I couldn’t resolve the issue.
Admins should verify and note the current group members before 6 November.
Microsoft will automatically convert existing group members into individual user entries. For this reason, changes to the Frontier setting will be blocked between 6 and 10 November. The conversion will use group membership as of 6 November.
