Topic

Posts about Permissions

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

Plan

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

Validate

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

Govern

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