In order to turn off flex routing for Microsoft Copilot 365, follow these steps:

Microsoft 365 Copilot has received a new feature intended to ease European capacity shortages, but it might actually make your business non-compliant GDPR guidelines.

In order to maintain Copilot’s data processing at peak times, Microsoft is enabling ‘flex routing’ that can divert large language model (LLM) inference to the US, Canada, or Australia.

So, if your business is operating in the European Union or the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is subject to GDPR, you might want to double check the guidelines.

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What is flex routing and when is it being activated?

Flex routing is a new Microsoft 365 Copilot feature that will funnel some Copilot traffic to data centers in the US, Canada, and Australia when capacity in European data centers runs ...