Sooner or later, the prebuilt catalogue runs out. You go looking for a connector to bring some system into Copilot, and it is not there because the system is homegrown, or niche, or something a vendor built for you a decade ago. Now you have a choice: build a custom connector, or find another way…
Copilot is only as useful as the content it can reach. Out of the box, it reaches your Microsoft 365 — SharePoint, mail, Teams. But most organisations’ knowledge does not all live in Microsoft 365. It is in ServiceNow, in Salesforce, in a Confluence wiki, on a file share, in some homegrown app the finance…
You run a report to answer a simple question: who can access this site? It comes back reassuring — a handful of members, the owners you expected, nothing alarming. So you sign off on the Copilot rollout. And the report was lying to you. Not because it got the answer wrong, but because it was…
Before you switch on Copilot, there is one question worth losing sleep over: what in here is overshared? Not in theory — in fact. Which sites are open to the whole company. Which files a long-gone contractor can still reach. Which “anyone with the link” shares are still live from a project that ended two…
SharePoint Advanced Management has a long feature list. Open the Advanced management page and you will count more than twenty capabilities, which is its own kind of problem: a list that long tells you nothing about where to start. Most of them you will open once, nod at, and never touch again. A handful you…
In an earlier post I said Restricted Content Discovery hides a site from Copilot but does not change who can open it. Turn it on, and anyone with a sharing link still walks straight in. They just will not stumble across the site through search. That is fine when hiding is all you want. When…
You are reading a Microsoft article about getting ready for Copilot, and it keeps telling you to use SharePoint Advanced Management for this and that. You assume it is one more paid add-on you do not have, and you close the tab. Here is the thing nobody puts in bold: if a single person in…
Everything so far has been about sites and encryption. Restricted Content Discovery hides a whole site from Copilot. A sensitivity label with encryption locks a single file. But two things fall straight through those gaps. The Confidential document that is not encrypted, sitting on a site you never restricted, which Copilot folds into a summary…
Propose Copilot to a security-minded colleague and you get the same question within about thirty seconds. “So it makes a copy of all our data? Where does that copy live? Who else can see it?” The mental picture is Copilot hoovering up every file in the tenant into some giant AI brain in the sky….
Sure enough, somebody in your Microsoft environment eventually asks the question: do we simply have to choose between Glean and enabling Copilot? In all likelihood, what’s going on behind the scenes here is that one of them has to be better for corporate data security than the other. And, that’s an entirely reasonable question. The…