You checked the connectors gallery, and your system is not in it. Documentum. iManage. An OpenText archive. An on-premises SharePoint farm nobody wants to talk about. So the plan forms: we will have to build a custom connector. Stop for a moment. Between “Microsoft does not have one” and “we build our own” sits a…
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…
You spent last month turning Restricted Content Discovery on, site by site, to keep the messy ones out of Copilot. Now someone asks a fair question: which sites did we actually restrict? Clicking through Active sites one at a time is not the answer. PowerShell gives you two clean ways to get it, one site…
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…