We’re excited to share that Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscriptions will now receive a 50 million item index per tenant without any extra cost for data ingested via Microsoft Graph connectors. With this change, the index quota entitlement per license is removed, as is add-on cost for additional quota. 

Applicable 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 

Why Microsoft Graph connectors? 

Microsoft Graph connectors allow organizations to bring data from external sources into Microsoft Graph to be discoverable across Microsoft 365 experiences, including grounding Microsoft 365 Copilot’s responses in more of your work content and context. 

Acting as a single platform for all your enterprise data, Microsoft Graph allows your end-users to enjoy uniform experiences with your external content, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and other Microsoft 365 content. Learn more about experiences that you can enable with Microsoft Graph connectors in our documentation. 

Is my data secure with Microsoft Graph connectors? 

One crucial aspect of bringing content into Microsoft 365 is maintaining security and data access controls. When implementing Microsoft Graph connectors, you map existing access control lists to objects in Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, ensuring that only individuals with the right permissions can access content. This allows organizations to keep centralized access to their data secure. To learn more, please review our documentation. 

Why are we making this change? 

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 or purchase add-on quota. We recognize that indexing more external data into Microsoft Graph is vital for many organizations to fully realize the power and value of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Removing quota restrictions reflects our dedication to offering the best Microsoft 365 experiences, responding directly to customer feedback about the need for increased data capacity with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Learn more about Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility with Graph connectors in our documentation. 

What does this mean for you? 

This change enables organizations to bring an incredible amount of external data into Microsoft Graph. Each record from the data source that you add to Microsoft Graph is considered “an item,” and enables external content to be discoverable across a set of Microsoft 365 experiences, including as a unique citation in Microsoft 365 Copilot’s responses. 

Depending on the data source, one item can be: 

One document (Word, Excel, PPT, PDF, etc.) in a file share 
One wiki page 
One web page 
One ticket/issue 

Total quota is based on the total items stored in the tenant’s index, and updates to an item don’t alter its count (i.e., there are no implications of updating an item multiple times; it still counts as 1 item within the tenant).  

Whether you are a new customer or already using Microsoft Graph connectors and have any of the subscriptions mentioned above, your tenant will automatically update to a 50 million item index by the end of September 2024. Subscribers with ‘Extra Graph Connector capacity’ will be contacted about their active plans. 

Next steps and resources 

Get started with Microsoft Graph connectors today! Information is everywhere and its growth is exponential across the multitude of applications we use to get work done. Safely index your external data in Microsoft Graph alongside content from your Microsoft 365 apps to deliver intelligent results across Microsoft 365 apps and services, regardless of where that information resides. Your users will thank you for it. 

Review resources and documentation about Microsoft Graph connectors and consider which external data sources you’d want to connect to Microsoft 365. If you have questions, please reach out to Microsoft Graph | Support. 

Resources: 

Microsoft Graph connectors overview | Microsoft Learn 
Build Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn 
Set up Microsoft Graph connectors in the Microsoft 365 admin center | Microsoft Learn 
Microsoft 365 Dev Center 
Follow us on Microsoft 365 Developer (@Microsoft365Dev) / X for the latest news and announcements 

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