How to govern Costs in SharePoint
A step-by-step guide to governing Costs in SharePoint with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Costs in SharePoint means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for SharePoint 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 Costs.
Steps
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Inventory SharePoint
Connect SharePoint 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 Costs in SharePoint 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 SharePoint 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.
SharePoint controls for Costs
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full SharePoint catalog on the SharePoint connector page.
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SharePoint Site collections near storage limit
Shows SharePoint Site Collections using more than 90% of their available storage space
Severity: High -
Site collection is unused with more than 1 GB
Shows sites which have not been used in last 90 days and are larger than 1 GB
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Unused SharePoint Site collections with more than 1 GB
Shows sites which have not been used in last 90 days and are larger than 1 GB
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Unused SharePoint Site collections with more than 1 GB
Shows sites which have not been used in last 90 days and are larger than 1 GB
