Connecting M365 Copilot to an On-Premises Knowledge Base Through Azure API Management

Many organizations have internal knowledge bases that employees need to query daily — but those systems live on-premises, behind corporate firewalls. With Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, you can build an AI-powered agent that lets anyone in your organization ask natural language questions against that internal KB — without ever exposing it to the public internet. This post walks through the architecture and steps to make it happen, using Azure API Management as the secure bridge.