Confluence and Confluence Cloud in Copilot - Reflecting Permissions Precisely

May 20, 2026

Like many other systems, Confluence Data Center and Confluence Cloud have permission structures that must be taken into account in Retrieval-Augmented Generation and agentic retrieval. In particular, space permissions and the inheritance hierarchy need to be reflected within the retrieval system.

This is where the RheinInsights Retrieval Suite comes into play. It not only can index millions of documents from Atlassian. It also efficiently maps permissions correctly within Microsoft Search—and into Copilot. Our highly scalable approach involves creating and indexing access control lists for each document while simultaneously indexing user-group relationships from Confluence.

Even more, our connectors bridge the gap between Confluence user IDs and those used in Microsoft 365 and Entra ID.

This way, our Retrieval Suite makes it easy to securely include all your enterprise knowledge into Microsoft Copilot.