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What's New on the UMN Enterprise#

October 2025#

Cost Centers#

Devex is rolling out metered billing in Azure for GitHub Copilot users. Teams now need to provide an Azure subscription to associate with their GitHub organization's cost center. For more information, see our page on billing.

September 2025#

UMN Enterprise will now be available to research units through their associated IT Units#

Research labs that work closely with their IT Units are welcome to onboard to GHEC through their IT Units, either in the same organization or their own. Submit the most appropriate request form at z.umn.edu/ghec to get started.

GitHub Copilot MCP enablement#

We are looking to enable MCP for our Copilot pilot users; you will need to have an Azure subscription to bill for premium requests.

August 2025#

Transitioning away from GitHub Actions "self-hosted" arc-runner-enterprise runners#

When we made the UMN Enterprise generally available to IT Staff, we provided custom "self-hosted" runners for Enterprise members to share. It has become clear that the user experience and security of the GitHub-hosted runners is better, so we are going to be transitioning away from these runners for new organizations, and eventually decommission the self-hosted runners. This change will also ensure added security as we broaden the audience of the platform.

For more information on the GitHub Actions runners, see our page on Actions Runners.

July 2025#

Limited access to Copilot#

We are doing a small pilot run of GitHub Copilot, as arranged by your manager and Curt Kronlund, the product manager for GitHub Enterprise Cloud. You can use GitHub Copilot on your IDE or in the browser with code where Copilot has been enabled.