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…