SharePoint Advanced Management: Governance Before the Copilot Conversation

TL;DR

SharePoint Advanced Management gives admins site ownership policies, inactive-site attestations, permission and sharing-link reports, and sensitivity-label snapshots. The author’s five-step starting point: fix ownership, review lifecycle, map access, detect oversharing, then validate all three with evidence before any Copilot rollout touches that content.

Original by Josiah Opiyo, on Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community Blog. Read the original

This is our own summary, not a republication or full translation.

Governance takeaway

• Admins/CoE: run SAM’s ownership, lifecycle, and access reports before any Copilot rollout — fixing ownership and mapping access is the actual prerequisite work, not a side task.
• Security/Compliance: treat the oversharing and sensitivity-label reports as the evidence a Copilot go-live needs, not paperwork to backfill afterward.
• Leadership/Business: hold the rollout date until that evidence exists, since an agent will act on whatever ownership and access assumptions are already in place, wrong or not.