Features

SimpleChat capabilities are catalogued from the application surface inventory so every shipped feature toggle is represented once and only once. Use this page to find the capability, understand what it does, and jump to the admin setting that controls it.

This catalog covers 38 capabilities backed by 111 capability toggles.

Chat and retrieval

Capability	What it does	Who uses it	Default	Enable it in
Chat file uploads	Lets users attach files directly to a chat so the conversation can use uploaded content as context.	End users	Enabled	Workspaces
Collaborative conversations	Allows shared conversation participation so multiple users can work in the same chat context.	End users	Enabled	Workspaces
Conversation productivity controls	Controls chat navigation, appearance, drawers, notifications, and audio cues around conversation work.	End users	Mixed	General
Deep research and source review	Adds bounded source-page review and deeper web evidence inspection before web-grounded answers are used.	End users	Mixed	Search and Extract
Enhanced citations	Adds richer source previews and storage-backed citation rendering for documents used in answers.	End users	Disabled	Citations
Grounded document search	Controls Azure AI Search-backed retrieval, cached search results, and mixed-source evidence reuse in chat.	End users	Mixed	Search and Extract
Source history summaries	Summarizes older conversation context so search and long-running chats can keep useful history.	End users	Disabled	Search and Extract
URL access	Lets chat and workflows fetch approved pasted URLs under admin-controlled limits and domain policy.	End users	Disabled	Search and Extract
Web search	Grounds a chat message in current public web results through a configured Azure AI Foundry agent using Grounding with Bing Search. Only the current message leaves the application.	End users	Disabled	Search and Extract

Documents and workspaces

Capability	What it does	Who uses it	Default	Enable it in
Document access index	Maintains a dedicated document-access index for faster authorization-aware document reads and validation.	Operators	Mixed	Scale
File sync	Lets enabled workspaces ingest content from configured storage sources instead of relying only on manual uploads.	End users	Mixed	File Sync
Group workspaces	Enables shared group spaces, group creation, and approval-aware file sharing between groups.	End users	Mixed	Workspaces
Personal workspaces	Gives each user a personal document workspace for uploads, tags, prompts, agents, actions, and workflows where enabled.	End users	Enabled	Workspaces
Public workspaces	Publishes approved workspace content to a broader public workspace experience.	End users	Disabled	Workspaces
Retention policies	Applies automatic retention rules separately for personal, group, and public workspace content.	Admins	Disabled	Backup, Migrate & Restore

Media and ingestion

Capability	What it does	Who uses it	Default	Enable it in
Audio and video ingestion	Allows audio and video files to be processed into searchable transcript-style content.	End users	Disabled	Search and Extract
Chunk size overrides	Lets admins override default extraction chunk sizes by file type for indexing and retrieval.	Admins	Disabled	Search and Extract
Cross-format document compare	Compares documents across supported formats, including staged one-to-many comparison behavior.	End users	Disabled	Search and Extract
Document extraction	Controls Document Intelligence, enhanced extraction, formulas, and embedded Office image analysis during ingestion.	End users	Mixed	Search and Extract
Document metadata and classification	Adds AI-assisted metadata extraction and category labels to workspace documents.	End users	Disabled	Search and Extract
Image generation	Adds AI image creation from chat using the configured image generation model route.	End users	Disabled	AI Models
Multimodal vision	Enables model-based visual analysis for images and visual document content.	End users	Disabled	Search and Extract
Tabular analysis	Runs structured CSV and spreadsheet analysis with durable planning, batching, checkpoints, and response controls.	End users	Mixed	Agents

Agents and actions

Capability	What it does	Who uses it	Default	Enable it in
Agents	Enables Semantic Kernel agents, agent discovery, templates, and multi-agent orchestration options.	End users	Mixed	Agents
Core actions	Controls built-in action plugins for HTTP access, math, text transformation, time, waits, fact memory, and embedding utilities.	End users	Mixed	Agents
MCP destination governance	Adds governance controls for Model Context Protocol destinations used by agent actions.	Admins	Disabled	Governance

Governance and safety

Capability	What it does	Who uses it	Default	Enable it in
Content safety	Screens prompts and content through Azure AI Content Safety with optional API Management routing.	Admins	Disabled	Safety
Feedback and conversation archiving	Collects user feedback, exposes support feedback, and can archive conversations for review or compliance workflows.	End users	Mixed	Send Feedback
Notices and terms of use	Shows AI notices and terms-of-use acknowledgement prompts to users.	End users	Disabled	General
Support menu and latest features	Adds the support menu, latest-feature pages, and optional documentation links for in-app help.	End users	Mixed	Latest Features New

Integrations

Capability	What it does	Who uses it	Default	Enable it in
Custom pages and external links	Lets admins add trusted in-app custom pages and curated external navigation links.	End users	Disabled	Custom Pages
Key Vault secret storage	Stores configured secrets in Azure Key Vault and can remind operators about secret expiration.	Operators	Disabled	Security

Platform and operations

Capability	What it does	Who uses it	Default	Enable it in
App maintenance and health checks	Runs startup and recurring maintenance jobs and exposes optional external health-check behavior.	Operators	Mixed	Control Center
Front Door and session controls	Supports Azure Front Door routing and optional idle-timeout behavior for browser sessions.	Operators	Disabled	Security
Logging and diagnostics	Controls diagnostic logging, Application Insights global logging, and user-visible file processing logs.	Operators	Mixed	Logging
Model routing and endpoints	Configures how chat and embeddings reach approved Azure OpenAI or model endpoint routes.	Admins	Mixed	AI Models
Scale and cache	Enables Redis-backed scale-out support and cached conversation reads for faster hot paths.	Operators	Mixed	Scale
Thoughts display	Shows configured processing-thought information in supported chat flows.	End users	Enabled	General