Microsoft releases Copilot dashboard to track employee usage and data risks
Microsoft launched a new Copilot Dashboard for Microsoft 365 administrators. The tool tracks user adoption, retention rates, and feature usage across specific applications like Word, Teams, and Outlook. The update includes a sentiment tracking feature based on thumbs-up and thumbs-down ratings from employees. It also integrates directly with Microsoft Purview to monitor data oversharing and data loss prevention alerts. Companies need at least one active Microsoft 365 Copilot license to access the metrics. The dashboard is designed to help IT departments measure the return on their artificial intelligence investments.
Until now, companies bought Copilot licenses blindly and relied on anecdotal evidence to guess if employees were actually using them. Finance leaders paying 30 dollars per user each month had no way to verify if the tool was saving time or just gathering digital dust. IT departments also struggled to see if employees were accidentally exposing sensitive company data through careless prompts. The new dashboard gives leadership hard data on exactly who uses Copilot and where they use it most. A low adoption rate is no longer a secret, meaning teams that ignore the tool will likely lose their licenses in the next budget review. The Purview integration also means security teams can instantly spot when an AI prompt surfaces confidential files.
Analysis
Your boss is about to see exactly how rarely your team clicks that Copilot button. Stop waiting for a magical training day that is never coming. Pick the one application your team uses most, master three reliable prompts for it, and share them tomorrow to spike your adoption metrics before finance revokes your licenses.
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