What to Fix in Microsoft 365 Before You Turn On Copilot
Before you turn on Copilot, it helps to know what Microsoft’s current Copilot deployment blueprint actually emphasizes. It is organized around three pillars: remediating oversharing, setting up guardrails, and meeting AI‑related regulatory obligations. There is a version of Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment that exists mostly in slide decks. It is clean. Fast. Impactful. Licenses are assigned. People ask questions in Teams. Productivity gains appear neatly in dashboards a few weeks later. And then there is the version that tends to happen in real environments. The one where someone quietly discovers a sensitive document surfaced in a Copilot response because permissions inherited through multiple SharePoint groups were never reviewed properly. The one where nobody is entirely sure who owns governance decisions once the pilot expands beyond IT. The one where years of “we should probably clean that up later” suddenly becomes operationally relevant. That version is becoming more commo...