Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Unified Exclusion list

Microsoft Viva Insights introduces a Unified Exclusion list for consistent user exclusion across all Viva Insights and Copilot analytics. Admins can manage exclusions via CSV or Entra ID groups. The feature rolls out globally from late September to early October 2025, enhancing privacy controls and simplifying administration. We’re introducing a Unified Exclusion list in Copilot Analytics (Microsoft Viva Insights), a new feature that provides a single, consistent way to exclude specific users from all Viva Insights. With this update, administrators will have one consolidated exclusion list that applies across the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard (in Viva Insights), Manager and Team insights, Advanced Insights, and the upcoming Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat analytics (available in Copilot Dashboard). Admins can manage exclusions easily through one list, simplifying configuration and safeguarding sensitive user data without impacting other organizational HR data. This ensures consistent privacy controls and data reporting for both licensed and “free” (unlicensed) Copilot users in your organization. Admins can use CSV upload and Azure Active Directory (Entra ID groups) to manage exclusions in the tenant. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 500161. When this will happen General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out this feature update globally,  starting late-September 2025 and expect rollout to be completed by early-October 2025. How this affects your organization All of Viva Insights experiences will now honor the excluded users (available in the Unified Exclusion list), eliminating the inconsistencies between different surfaces. For example, if an employee is on the Unified Exclusion list, that user’s data will be omitted from all Copilot Dashboards, manager insights, and analyst queries uniformly. This replaces the legacy approach where the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard had its own exclusion list and Advanced Insights relied on license or service plan removal.  The AI administrators, Viva Insights Administrators and Global Administrators will have access to configure this updated setting. Note: Any users whom you previously excluded (via the old Microsoft Copilot Dashboard exclusion list) will automatically remain excluded under the new mechanism. Those users will continue to be fully excluded from all Viva Insights data, including the new M365 Copilot Chat usage […]

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