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Posts about Governance

Power Pages vs SharePoint sites: who the audience is decides it

SharePoint sites are for people inside your tenant. Power Pages is for everyone outside it. One question, who needs to use this, settles almost every case. Here's the honest split.

Jun 5, 2026

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Restricted Content Discovery: the Copilot safety switch you shouldn't flip everywhere

Restricted Content Discovery hides a sensitive site from Microsoft 365 Copilot and org-wide search. It's a genuinely useful brake, but Microsoft warns that overusing it degrades search and Copilot, so it pays to be picky about which sites get it.

May 21, 2026

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SharePoint Server vs SharePoint Online: should you just move to the cloud?

A plain-English read on what an SMB actually loses and gains by moving off SharePoint Server, and why your customization list, not your user count, decides the migration.

Apr 23, 2026

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Run a permissions audit before you migrate SharePoint

A pre-migration permissions audit is cheap insurance. Skip it, or rush it, and you discover broken inheritance, orphaned access, and dropped grants one mystery support ticket at a time after cutover.

Apr 15, 2026

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The post-migration failures that wait until day 30

Most silent failures after a SharePoint migration don't show up the morning after cutover. They surface around day 30, exactly when everyone has moved on. Here's the three-pass validation schedule that catches them.

Apr 2, 2026

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Turn on Copilot without leaking your HR folder

Microsoft 365 Copilot only shows users what they could already open, so a salary sheet shared to 'everyone' in 2019 isn't a Copilot leak, it's an oversharing leak Copilot finally made findable. Here's what to fix before you flip the switch.

Mar 25, 2026