Copilot News 09/02/2026 AI Rating: Low

GitHub Copilot's Enterprise-Managed Settings Can Now Set Any Model as Default

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GitHub Copilot’s enterprise-managed settings now support choosing any model as the default for new conversations, rather than being limited to a fixed set of options.

Details

  • How to configure it: administrators set the model key in their organization’s enterprise-managed settings files
  • Team-level flexibility: marking the key as overridable and updating team-mappings.json lets specific enterprise teams choose their own default model instead of inheriting the organization-wide setting
  • Where it applies: the GitHub Copilot app, Copilot CLI, and Visual Studio Code, for organizations on Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise

What happened next

The change gives large organizations finer control over which model employees see by default, without forcing every team under a single enterprise-wide choice.

Source https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-02-enterprise-managed-settings-support-any-default-model

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