Copilot governance

Concept

Controls for permissions, data access and oversight when using Copilot in a Microsoft 365 tenant.

Sessions on this topic (6)

• Make AI Adoption Safe: What Happens When the Rules Run Out? · Simon Owen · M365Con 2027
• Inside the Future Workday: The Microsoft 365 Admin’s Toolkit · Evi van der Velden · M365Con 2027
• SharePoint Advanced Management vs. PnP PowerShell vs Admin Agent for Governance · Reshmee Auckloo, Nishkalank Bezawada · M365Con 2027
• Make AI Adoption Safe: What Happens When the Rules Run Out? · Simon Owen · M365Con 2027
• Inside the Future Workday: The Microsoft 365 Admin’s Toolkit · Evi van der Velden · M365Con 2027
• SharePoint Advanced Management vs. PnP PowerShell vs Admin Agent for Governance · Reshmee Auckloo, Nishkalank Bezawada · M365Con 2027

Glossary

Related topics in brief

• Microsoft 365 Copilot · Related to · Product
  An AI assistant built into Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams. It uses large language models together with the user's own work data from Microsoft Graph to draft, summarise and analyse content, always within the user's existing permissions.
• Governance · Related to · Concept
  The rules, roles and controls that define who may use which data and tools, and how that is monitored. For Copilot and agents, governance covers permissions, labelling, lifecycle of agents and auditability.
• Microsoft Purview · Related to · Product
  Microsoft's family of data governance, protection and compliance tools. It covers sensitivity labels, data loss prevention, retention, eDiscovery, audit and insider-risk management across Microsoft 365 and other data sources.
• Microsoft Agent 365 · Related to · Product
  Control plane for observing, governing and securing AI agents across an organisation, with agent registry, identity, access control and monitoring built on Entra, Purview and Defender.
• FinOps · Related to · Concept
  Practice of managing and optimising cloud and AI spending through cost visibility, allocation, budgets and accountability.
• Copilot Credits · Related to · Concept
  Consumption unit used to bill agent and Copilot Studio usage, which makes budgeting and monitoring of agent costs necessary.
• SharePoint Advanced Management · Related to · Product
  Set of governance and lifecycle tools for SharePoint, such as site access reviews, inactive site policies, restricted access control and oversharing reports, included with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• SharePoint admin agent · Related to · Product
  AI agent that helps SharePoint administrators find and fix tenant problems such as inactive sites, oversharing and permission sprawl in natural language.
• Data governance · Related to · Concept
  Rules, roles and tools that keep data classified, protected and used correctly, essential before and while deploying Copilot and agents.
• Nishkalank Bezawada · Related to · Person
  Nishkalank Bezawada is a speaker at M365Con 2027 (Xenit AB) with 1 session.
• Simon Owen · Related to · Person
  Simon Owen is a speaker at M365Con 2026 and M365Con 2027 (Founder at Empower Your World) with 2 sessions.

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