RM565905 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): People Skills- removal and deletion admin control

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Summary

A new admin control in the People Skills settings lets administrators permanently remove their organization's People Skills data from the tenant. With this new control, organizations can delete their entire skills library along with all users confirmed, inferred, and imported skills data—giving them full control to offboard from People Skills in support of data governance and compliance needs.

Last Updated

Aug 24, 2026

Published Jun 15, 2026

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Status

Launched

Release

General Availability

Platforms

Web

Service

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Tag

Launched
General Availability
Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

Cloud

Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

Description

A new admin control in the People Skills settings lets administrators permanently remove their organization's People Skills data from the tenant. With this new control, organizations can delete their entire skills library along with all users confirmed, inferred, and imported skills data—giving them full control to offboard from People Skills in support of data governance and compliance needs.

Once deletion is initiated, skills will no longer appear on user profile cards or be used across Microsoft 365 skills-based experiences such as Copilot and Viva. The control is admin-only with no automatic changes.

GA date: July CY2026

Version history

3 versions tracked

Updated 2 times since Jun 15, 2026. Microsoft Message Center only ever shows the current version; this archive preserves the history.

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  1. Aug 24, 2026 · 10:41 PMLatest · v3

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  2. Jul 23, 2026 · 11:27 PMv2

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  3. Jun 15, 2026 · 11:00 PMOriginal · v1

    Changed: Initial version