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Governance

A guide to SharePoint intranet governance

Microsoft 365 gives you governance tools, not a governance system. This guide sets up the series and names the gap running through every post in it: the tools handle what can be automated, not who ...

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Measuring intranet governance

A page with few viewers might be broken, unfindable, or simply not needed, and usage reports can't tell you which. This post proposes six accountability indicators for measuring whether governance ...

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Oversharing and Copilot in your intranet

Copilot doesn't create oversharing, it makes years of tolerated access start producing answers. This post covers Restricted Content Discovery, Restricted Access Control, and who's answerable when C...

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Governing navigation and findability

A complaint that a page can't be found usually gets answered with a new link, not a decision about which page is actually current. This post covers who owns navigation at each level, and what curat...

GovernanceAccelerator 365 intranet governance graphic highlighting the need to regularly review or retire outdated intranet pages, with illustrated team members, checklists, calendars, and planning elements.

Governing the content lifecycle

A page left untouched keeps saying what it said the day it published. This post covers who's answerable for a page staying accurate, how often it should be checked, and what happens to it once it s...

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Publishing standards for intranet content

A publishing standard is the rules authors work to when building a page, and SharePoint enforces almost none of it natively. This post covers branding, templates, approval, and accessibility as a r...