Richard Harbridge
Microsoft MVP, Principal Industry Advisor at ShareGate
Richard Harbridge is a Microsoft MVP, author, and globally recognized speaker who serves as Principal Industry Advisor for ShareGate. Drawing on two decades of Microsoft 365 leadership, Richard translates complex technology into clarity and forges the connections that let partners, customers, and communities thrive together. He has advised hundreds of IT teams that move petabytes of data, drive products that help 100,000+ IT pros, and empower tens of thousands of organizations worldwide.
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Sept. 1, 2026
Copilot Inherits Your Mess: Modernizing Microsoft 365 for AI with Richard Harbridge [MVP]
Microsoft 365 Copilot doesn’t arrive in a clean Microsoft 365 tenant. It arrives in an environment that organizations have been building for years — full of SharePoint sites, Teams, OneDrive content, duplicate documents, historic migrations, guest accounts, inconsistent permissions, forgotten workspaces, broken ownership models, and content nobody has reviewed in years.For traditional Microsoft 365 management, much of this technical debt could remain relatively hidden. AI changes that.In this ep...
Guests: Mirko Peters , Richard Harbridge