Microsoft 365

SharePoint Governance Basics

Create ownership, access, lifecycle, and information-management rules for SharePoint.

Create ownership, access, lifecycle, and information-management rules for SharePoint.

Ownership

Every site should have accountable business and technical owners.

Provisioning

Use consistent naming, templates, ownership requirements, and expiration rules.

Access

Review broad permissions, external sharing, guest access, and inherited permissions.

Lifecycle

Archive or remove inactive sites and document records requirements.

Information protection

Apply labels, retention, DLP, and monitoring according to business risk.

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