Governance guide

How to govern Inventory in SharePoint

A step-by-step guide to governing Inventory in SharePoint with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.

Definition

Governing Inventory 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 Inventory.

Steps

  1. 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.

  2. Detect with policies

    Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Inventory in SharePoint to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 Inventory

Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full SharePoint catalog on the SharePoint connector page.

  • Site Collection

    All SharePoint site collections in your tenant

  • Site

    All root site and subsites of a SharePoint site collection

  • List/Library

    All SharePoint lists and libraries

  • File

    All SharePoint files stored in a library of a SharePoint site

  • Folder

    All SharePoint folders stored in a library of a SharePoint site

  • File Sharing

    All shared SharePoint files with their sharing information

  • Deleted Site Collection

    All deleted SharePoint site collections

  • Locked Site Collection

    All locked SharePoint site collections

  • SharePoint Special Group

    This is a special group for SharePoint which is used to give access to content in SharePoint to special group of users

  • SharePoint Agent

    SharePoint agents inside a list

  • Redirected Site Collection

    All SharePoint Site Collections with renamed urls

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