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Author: Ruchika-mittal01

copilot/media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/privacy-controls-overview.png

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ ms.date: 10/21/2025
 
 # Overview of People Skills
 
-People Skills is an AI-driven service that uses state-of-the-art AI to generate personalized skill profiles for your users mapped to a customizable, built-in taxonomy. This service provides a data layer that fuels the Skills agent, and enhances Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365, and Viva services with contextualized data and skills-driven experiences. 
+People Skills is an AI-driven service that uses state-of-the-art AI to generate personalized skill profiles for your users mapped to a customizable, built-in taxonomy. This service provides a data layer that enhances Microsoft 365 Copilot and multiple M365 Copilot Agents, Microsoft 365, and Viva services with contextualized data and skills-driven experiences. 
 
 People Skills:
 
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ If you have questions about licensing or access, contact your Microsoft represen
 | GA | Copilot Analytics - Skill landscape report in Analyst Workbench | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
 
 
-*People skills are available in the Microsoft 365 commercial public cloud, excluding EDU
+*People skills are available in the Microsoft 365 commercial public cloud, excluding EDU  
+**Tenants with at least 1 M365 Copilot license can opt-in Microsoft Enterprise E3 and E5 users for AI-powered inferencing. Learn more [here](/copilot/microsoft-365/people-skills-manage-skills-library)
 
 ## Where does People Skills data appear?
 

copilot/people-skills-overview.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ People Skills offers controls for Admin users to configure privacy settings, ski
 
 - __Workers Council or Regional Compliance Requirements__
 
-  If your organization has Workers Council requirements and needs to disable People Skills for certain regions (such as users in Germany), you have several admin controls for meeting those compliance needs. Configure compliance‑appropriate access controls. For example, you can use the **AI Inferencing control** to disable AI‑generated skill inferences while still allowing users to opt in if they choose. Alternatively, you can use the **People Skills user experiences control**, which fully disables all People Skills experiences for the selected user group; this higher-level control removes all People Skills user experiences for those users and may be used to meet regional compliance needs.
+  If your organization has Workers Council requirements and needs to disable People Skills for certain regions (such as users in Germany), you have several admin controls for meeting compliance needs. Configure compliance‑appropriate access controls. For example, you can use the **AI Inferencing control** to disable AI‑generated skill inferences while still allowing users to opt in if they choose. Alternatively, you can use the **People Skills user experiences control**, which fully disables all People Skills experiences for the selected user group; this higher-level control removes all People Skills user experiences for those users and may be used to meet regional compliance needs.
 
 - __Piloting People Skills with a Test Group__
 
@@ -60,19 +60,21 @@ Admins can set controls at any time: before, during, or after deployment.  To vi
 
 #### Key terminology
 
-When managing these Admin Controls, see the below table for important definitions of terms referenced throughout this page.  
+When managing Admin Controls, see the table for important definitions of terms referenced throughout this page.  
 
 | Term| What it means|
 | -------- | -------- |
 |Hard disable| Feature is fully disabled (turned off) and users can't opt in|
 | Soft disable|Feature is available but default off, and users may opt in |
 |Soft enable|Feature is available and default on, and users may opt out|
-|Parent control|A parent control determines the access settings of its child controls. When the parent is turned off, all child controls automatically inherit that setting and are also turned off. For example, the **People Skills user experiences** control is a parent for all other admin controls; if the People Skills user experiences control is turned off, every related control beneath it's disabled as well. |
+|Parent control|A parent control determines the access settings of its child controls. When the parent is turned off, all child controls automatically inherit that setting and are also turned off. For example, the **People Skills user experiences** control is a parent for all other admin controls. If the People Skills user experiences control is turned off, every related control is disabled as well. |
 |Child control|Child controls are controls that sit beneath a parent feature and depend on the parent's access state. A child control can only be applied if its parent feature is turned on. When the parent is disabled, all associated child controls automatically become disabled (they inherit their parent's access setting). |
 
-See below visual diagram for an illustration of the relationships between the controls. 
+See visual diagram for an illustration of the relationships between the controls. 
+
+![Diagram showing the privacy controls overview.](media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/privacy-controls-overview.png)
+
 
-![Screenshot that shows the user's image.](media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/image1.png)
 
 ## Overview of People Skills user experiences control 
 
@@ -180,7 +182,7 @@ Admins have the ability to enable or disable People Skills data sharing with Viv
 
 **Steps to enable or disable sharing with Viva Insights**
 
-![Screenshot that shows the user's image.](media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/image2.png)
+![Screenshot: image that shows the user's image.](media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/image2.png)
 
 
 ![Screenshot that shows the user's image.](media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/image3.png)
@@ -234,7 +236,7 @@ Below is some general guidance for creating policies:
 
 You can access Feature access management in the M365 Admin Center by following the below instructions:
 
-![Screenshot that shows the user's image.](media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/image4.png)![User's image](media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/image5.png)
+![Screenshot: showing the user's image.](media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/image4.png)![User's image](media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/image5.png)
 
 1. Navigate to **Settings** in the left rail of the M365 Admin Center
 
@@ -248,7 +250,7 @@ You can access Feature access management in the M365 Admin Center by following t
 
 1. Click on **Add policy**
 
-**Create a policy**![Screenshot that shows the user's image.](media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/image6.png)
+**Create a policy**![Screenshot: image that shows people skills sharing inference controls.](media/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls/image6.png)
 
 You can create a policy for any of the available feature controls by following the below instructions: 
 

copilot/people-skills-sharing-inferencing-controls.md

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ sections:
           For easy deployment of add-ins to users, groups, or to your entire organization, we recommend administrators use centralized deployment whenever deployment through the integrated apps portal is not suitable.
           
           For more information about managing user access, see:
-           - [Manage add-in downloads by turning on/off AppSource across all apps (except Outlook)](/microsoft-365/admin/manage/manage-addins-in-the-admin-center#manage-add-in-downloads-by-turning-on-off-appsource-across-all-apps-except-outlook)
+           - [Manage add-in downloads by turning on/off Microsoft Marketplace across all apps (except Outlook)](/microsoft-365/admin/manage/manage-addins-in-the-admin-center#manage-add-in-downloads-by-turning-on-off-microsoft-marketplace-across-all-apps-except-outlook)
            - [Specify the administrators and users who can install and manage add-ins for Outlook](/Exchange/specify-who-can-install-and-manage-add-ins-2013-help)
           
       - question: |
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ sections:
           For more information, see [Delete an add-in](./manage-addins-in-the-admin-center.md#delete-an-add-in). 
             
       - question: |
-          Can admins deploy paid add-ins from AppSource using centralized deployment? 
+          Can admins deploy paid add-ins from Microsoft Marketplace using centralized deployment? 
         answer: |
           Yes.
              

microsoft-365/admin/manage/centralized-deployment-FAQ.yml

@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ description: "Deploy Office Add-ins in Microsoft 365 GCC High environments."
 
 This article was written by [Eric Splichal](https://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/Splic-MSFT), Sr. Support Escalation Engineer.
 
-Centralized deployment for Office Add-ins can be managed at an administrative level in Microsoft 365 for Business. Since Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) tenants don't have access to the Office store, you'll need to deploy Office Add-ins through the following process.
+Centralized deployment for Office Add-ins can be managed at an administrative level in Microsoft 365 for Business. Since Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) tenants don't have access to the Microsoft Marketplace, you'll need to deploy Office Add-ins through the following process.
 
-1. In your browser, go to <b>appsource.microsoft.com</b>.
+1. In your browser, go to <b>marketplace.microsoft.com</b>.
 2. Click on the tile of the add-in you want to deploy (don't click the <b>Get it now</b> button). This will open the details page for the add-in.
-3. In the URL for the details page, find and copy the AssetID value. For example, if the URL is "<b>https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-US/product/office/WA1234567989?tab=Overview</b>", the AssetID value is <b>WA1234567989</b>.
+3. In the URL for the details page, find and copy the AssetID value. For example, if the URL is "<b>https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-US/product/office/WA1234567989?tab=Overview</b>", the AssetID value is <b>WA1234567989</b>.
 4. Paste the AssetID value to the following URL: "<b>https://store.office.com/app/download?assetid=value&cmu=en-001</b>". For example, using the example AssetID value from the previous step, the URL would need to be updated to "<b>https://store.office.com/app/download?assetid=WA1234567989&cmu=en-001</b>".
 5. In your browser, go to <b>admin.microsoft.com</b> to open the Microsoft 365 admin center.
 6. In the left pane, select <b>Show all</b> to expand the menu. Then select <b>Settings</b>, then <b>Add-ins</b>.

microsoft-365/admin/manage/deploy-addins-for-gcch.md

@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Azure portal supports a similar inactivity feature, but is tracked in the Azure
 
 ### I'm using Microsoft Fabric, how does Idle Session Timeout impact long-running Fabric Notebook executions?
 
-If you are using a non-managed device where Idle Session Timeout is enabled, long-running interactive Fabric Notebook executions may be affected if a user goes inactive beyond the set tenant-wide session timeout policy. This is a pro-active measure to ensure idle devices are not accessible by outside parties. To mitigate, we advise users to not go inactive within M365 web apps while long-running executions are running. 
+If you are using a non-managed device where Idle Session Timeout is enabled, long-running interactive Fabric Notebook executions may be affected if a user goes inactive beyond the set tenant-wide session timeout policy. This is a pro-active measure to ensure idle devices are not accessible by outside parties. To mitigate, we advise users to not go inactive within Microsoft 365 web apps while long-running executions are running. 
 
 ### I want to make changes to the idle session timeout policy or delete it. How can I do that?
 

microsoft-365/admin/manage/idle-session-timeout-web-apps.md

@@ -80,31 +80,31 @@ Post deployment, admins can also manage user access to add-ins.
 
 4. Save the changes.
 
-## Manage add-in downloads by turning on/off AppSource across all apps (except Outlook)
+## Manage add-in downloads by turning on/off Microsoft Marketplace across all apps (except Outlook)
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
-> In the UI of the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, AppSource is still sometimes referred to as "Office Store".
+> In the UI of the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Marketplace is still sometimes referred to as "Office Store".
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > Outlook add-in installation is managed by a [different process](/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/add-ins-for-outlook/specify-who-can-install-and-manage-add-ins).
 
-As an organization you may wish to manage the download of Office add-ins from AppSource. This could be used to ensure that users within your organization can get the benefits from all the Office add-ins, or only the organization-approved add-ins can be deployed with centralized deployment.
+As an organization you may wish to manage the download of Office add-ins from Microsoft Marketplace. This could be used to ensure that users within your organization can get the benefits from all the Office add-ins, or only the organization-approved add-ins can be deployed with centralized deployment.
 
 **To turn on/off add-in acquisition**
 
 1. In the admin center, go to the **Settings** \> [Org settings](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2053743) page.
 
 2. Select **User owned apps and services**.
 
-3. Check or clear the option to allow or prevent users to access the Office Store (which refers to AppSource).
+3. Check or clear the option to allow or prevent users to access the Office Store (which refers to Microsoft Marketplace).
 
 Options available in non-educational tenants:
 
-   ![Let user access office store settings](../../media/user-owned-apps-and-services.png)
+   ![Let user access Microsoft Marketplace settings](../../media/user-owned-apps-and-services.png)
 
 Options available in educational tenants:
 
-   ![Let user access office store settings for EDU](../../media/user-owned-apps-and-services-edu.png)
+   ![Let user access Microsoft Marketplace settings for EDU](../../media/user-owned-apps-and-services-edu.png)
 
 The user’s license information is used to define whether a user is a faculty/staff or a student along with the Age Group property to check whether the student is an adult or not. A user who does not have an educational license is included in the **Faculty, staff and other non-student users** user group.  
 
@@ -113,17 +113,17 @@ The user’s license information is used to define whether a user is a faculty/s
 >- [Learn how to review the user's license type and assign or unassign licenses as required](assign-licenses-to-users.md)
 >- [Understand how to configure the Age Group property in the Microsoft Encarta admin center](/entra/fundamentals/how-to-manage-user-profile-info)
 
-This will control all users' ability to acquire the following add-ins from AppSource.
+This will control all users' ability to acquire the following add-ins from Microsoft Marketplace.
 
 - Add-ins for non-subscription Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows and Mac
 - Add-ins for subscription Microsoft 365
 
- When you disable the access to AppSource, a user who tries to access it will see the following message: **Office store not available. Unfortunately, your organization has disabled access to the Office Store. Please contact your administrator to get access to the store.**
+ When you disable the access to Microsoft Marketplace, a user who tries to access it will see the following message: **Office store not available. Unfortunately, your organization has disabled access to the Office Store. Please contact your administrator to get access to the store.**
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> Acquisitions may still be possible from AppSource, but the user will not be able to launch or use the add-in in the client. This does not prevent an administrator from using centralized deployment to assign an add-in from AppSource.
+> Acquisitions may still be possible from Microsoft Markeplace, but the user will not be able to launch or use the add-in in the client. This does not prevent an administrator from using centralized deployment to assign an add-in from Microsoft Marketplace.
   
-Support for turning on/off the AppSource is available in the following versions:
+Support for turning on/off the Microsoft Marketplace is available in the following versions:
 
 - Office on Windows: 16.0.9001 - Currently available.
 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Support for turning on/off the AppSource is available in the following versions:
 To prevent a user from signing in with a Microsoft account, you can restrict logon to use only the organizational account. For more information, see [Identity, authentication, and authorization in Office 2016](/DeployOffice/security/identity-authentication-and-authorization-in-office).  
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> Preventing users from accessing AppSource will also prevent them from [Sideloading Office Add-ins for testing from a network share](/office/dev/add-ins/testing/create-a-network-shared-folder-catalog-for-task-pane-and-content-add-ins).
+> Preventing users from accessing Microsoft Markeplace will also prevent them from [Sideloading Office Add-ins for testing from a network share](/office/dev/add-ins/testing/create-a-network-shared-folder-catalog-for-task-pane-and-content-add-ins).
 
 ## More about the end-user experience with add-ins