How to govern Sprawl in Exchange
A step-by-step guide to governing Sprawl in Exchange with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Sprawl in Exchange means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Exchange with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Sprawl.
Steps
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Inventory Exchange
Connect Exchange and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Sprawl in Exchange to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Exchange reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Exchange controls for Sprawl
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Exchange catalog on the Exchange connector page.
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Inactive mailboxes (90+ days)
Shows mailboxes that have not had any send/receive/read activity for more than 90 days.
Severity: Medium -
Stale Exchange ActiveSync device
Detects mobile device partnerships that have not synced in 90 days.
Severity: Low -
Inactive Mailboxes
Mailboxes with no send/receive/read activity in the last 90 days.
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Stale mobile devices
Mobile device partnerships with no successful sync in over 90 days.
