Microsoft Graph connectors allow your organization to index third-party data into Microsoft Graph. Microsoft Graph connectors enable Microsoft 365 Copilot better as it has more information relevant to your organization to answer prompts.
According to Microsoft, Microsoft 365 will soon include a new service plan, Graph Connectors Search with Index, offering a 50 million item index limit per tenant at no cost. Rollout starts September 2024.
Previously, to index third-party data into Microsoft Graph through Microsoft Graph connectors, you either needed to have a built-in entitlement through specific licenses (e.g., 500 items of index quota per Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license) or purchase add-on quota. With this change, the index quota per license entitlement is removed, as is add-on cost for additional quota. You now receive an entitlement of 50 million items for each tenant.
Each entity (or record) from the source data system that you add to Microsoft Graph can be considered an item which then shows up as a unique citation in Copilot’s responses, as a unique search result in Microsoft Search, etc. Depending on the type of data source, 1 item is –
- 1 document (word, excel, ppt, pdf, etc.) in file share
- 1 wiki page in Confluence
- 1 webpage in a website
- 1 ticket/issue in Jira
Total quota utilized is calculated in terms of total items stored in the index. Updates/changes to an item are not counted in any manner. There are no cost implications of updating an item multiple times. It still counts as 1 item only.
Applicable to subscriptions: Office 365 E1, Office 365 E3, Office 365 E5, Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 F1, Microsoft 365 F3, Office 365 F3, Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Office 365 G1, Office 365 G3, Office 365 G5, Microsoft 365 G3, Microsoft 365 G5, Office 365 A3, Office 365 A5, Microsoft 365 A3, Microsoft 365 A5