MC1483430 - Power Platform admin center – Update to the Copilot Studio Authors feature name
Microsoft 365 Message Center announcement MC1483430.
MS Message Center's Summary
Microsoft is renaming the Copilot Studio Authors tenant setting in the Power Platform admin centre to Copilot Studio pay as you go users. This adjustment clarifies that the control manages licensing access for pay as you go billing rather than general platform governance. Administrators should note this terminology shift to avoid confusion during tenant management. No immediate intervention is necessary as functionality remains unchanged.
- Administrator impact
- No direct administrator action is required.
- End user impact
- No direct end user impact is expected.
- Importance
- 2/10: This update is purely administrative nomenclature to improve clarity with no operational impact.
- Message Center ID
- MC1483430
- Category
- stay Informed
- Severity
- normal
- Services
- Power Platform
- Tags
- Feature update
- Published
- 2026-09-30
- Last updated
- 2026-09-30
- Expires
- 2026-11-30
We are announcing that we have updated the name of the Copilot Studio Authors tenant setting to Copilot Studio pay-as-you-go users in Copilot Studio. This feature controls who can use pay-as-you-go (paygo or PAYG) billing to create items in Copilot studio. The Copilot Studio Authors tenant setting in the Power Platform admin center was not created as a governance feature. It was created as a licensing access-control mechanism, required to make the Copilot Studio Pay-As-You-Go meter usable at launch. Without it, a customer on a pure pay-as-you-go billing plan had no supported way to be granted access to the Copilot Studio maker portal. How does this affect me? With the introduction of the new Copilot Studio UI, we received feedback that this setting caused confusion for users mistakenly thinking that this feature was a way to control who had access to Copilot Studio. This name change will reflect the actual intent of the feature to prevent confusion. What action do I need to take? This message is for awareness, and no action is required.