How to govern Inventory in Microsoft Agent 365
A step-by-step guide to governing Inventory in Microsoft Agent 365 with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Inventory in Microsoft Agent 365 means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Microsoft Agent 365 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 Inventory.
Steps
-
Inventory Microsoft Agent 365
Connect Microsoft Agent 365 and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
-
Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Inventory in Microsoft Agent 365 to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
-
Review by owner and severity
Use the Microsoft Agent 365 reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
-
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.
Microsoft Agent 365 controls for Inventory
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Microsoft Agent 365 catalog on the Microsoft Agent 365 connector page.
-
Agent
Agents and apps registered in the tenant agent registry (Microsoft 365 admin center > Agents > All agents). Each package may contain one or more elements (declarative agent, custom-engine agent, bot, Office add-in).
-
Agent Element
Individual elements (declarative agents, custom engine agents, bots, add-ins) contained within a agent package.
-
Agent Capability
Reusable capability (e.g. WebSearch, CodeInterpreter, GraphConnectors). Its relations list every agent that can use it.
-
Agent Knowledge Source
Reusable knowledge source an agent reads from (e.g. a SharePoint site or Graph connector). Its relations list every agent that reads from it.
-
Agent Action
Reusable action an agent can perform against an external system (e.g. sendEmail, createTask). Its relations list every agent that can perform it.
-
Shadow AI Agent
Unmanaged local AI tools and agents (chatbots, coding assistants, local models, agentic CLIs) detected on Intune-managed devices that were not approved by IT.
-
Shadow AI Detection
A detection of a shadow AI agent on a specific managed device, linked to the device's Microsoft 365 user.
-
Agent Blueprint
Microsoft Entra agent identity blueprint - a template (inherits from application) that defines the configuration agent identities created from it inherit. Holds credentials (keyCredentials, passwordCredentials, federatedIdentityCredentials), inheritable permissions, owners, and sponsors.
-
Agent Blueprint Principal
Service principal record of an agent identity blueprint's addition to the tenant. Inherits from servicePrincipal; used for token issuance and audit. Linked to an agentIdentityBlueprint via appId.
-
Agent Identity
Microsoft Entra agent identity - the identity object (inherits from servicePrincipal) used by an AI agent to authenticate. Bound to one agentIdentityBlueprint via agentIdentityBlueprintId; has its own owners and sponsors.
-
Agent User
Microsoft Entra agent user - a specialized user (inherits from user) for AI agents that need a user account (mailbox, Teams presence). One-to-one with a parent agent identity via identityParentId. Has manager + multi-sponsor relationships to real users.
-
Agent Permission
A Microsoft Graph (or other resource) permission scope. Inheritable permissions on blueprints and grants on identities both link back to this entity so a single permission can be opened to see every agent that declares or holds it.
