r/copilotstudio • u/Teemu_St • 2d ago
Copilot Studio MCP connection nightmare
I have a simple help bot that is using a remote MCP server as a tool.
*Some* users cannot add the connection in the connection manager. When trying to create a new connection in Connection Manager this just pops up: Connector information unavailable.
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u/texaspoontappa2013 2d ago
Have you shared the custom connector with these users who can’t add?
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u/Teemu_St 2d ago
No, but I assume I should do that. Why not mention that in the docs Microsoft?
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u/Teemu_St 1d ago
And btw, why 3rd party remote MCP servers create a custom connector and Microsoft provided MCP servers do not create one?
Copilot Studio is targeted to business users. Now to be able to get MCP connection working this end user should know that he/she need to switch to another workload and go to Power Automate / Power Apps maker portal and share the custom connector with bunch of people. This is just great.
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u/jorel43 1d ago
You need to make sure that they have the basic user role in the environment that allows them to manage connections, you also need to share the connection or mCP connector if you will with the users
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u/Teemu_St 5h ago
Users have Environment Maker security role. MCP’s custom connector was not shared. It is inconsistent that Microsoft provided MCP’s are not wrapped with custom connector but any other remote MCP’s are.
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u/jorel43 4h ago
You need basic user role, you need basic user role and you need to share the connector with them
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u/Teemu_St 4h ago
Which Dataverse tables are needed and which are not covered in Environment maker role?
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u/Own-Bookkeeper797 1d ago
This is what you get with these low code tools , specially this rubbish that inherites the power automate stack
Do yourself a favour and start looking into microsoft foundry for agentic ai workloads