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Grounding with Bing enables agents to retrieve and incorporate real-time public web data into model-generated responses. It supports summarization, question answering, conversational assistance, and other scenarios by using Grounding with Bing Search or Grounding with Bing Custom Search to fill knowledge gaps. Grounding is available across features in Foundry Agent Service and Azure AI Search. To meet compliance, privacy, or data governance requirements, you might need to disable access to these features. As an admin, you can manage access to Grounding with Bing in the following ways:

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Disable Grounding with Bing Search tools

You can disable Grounding with Bing Search, Grounding with Bing Custom Search, or both at the subscription or resource group level. For more information, see Disable use of Grounding with Bing Search and Grounding with Bing Custom Search.

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Disable web search tool

You can disable the web search tool for all accounts in a subscription. For more information, see Disable Web Search.

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Disable web knowledge

You can disable Web Knowledge Source access for all search services in a subscription. For more information, see Disable use of Web Knowledge Source.
To reenable access after disabling it, follow the steps in the linked articles to reverse the policy, setting, or feature registration.

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