Governance guide

How to govern Operation in SharePoint

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

Definition

Governing Operation 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 Operation.

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 Operation 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 Operation

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

  • Classic sites

    Shows classic SharePoint sites

    Severity: Information
  • Unused Classic sites

    Shows classic SharePoint sites

    Severity: Low
  • Site Collections with Subsites

    Shows all Site Collections that have more subsites than the root site

    Severity: Information
  • SharePoint site collections with less than 2 site owners

    Shows SharePoint site collections that have less than 2 site owners

    Severity: Medium
  • Sites that have no Hubsite configured

    Shows SharePoint sites, that have not been associated with a SharePoint hub site and thus might be not easily discovered

    Severity: Information
  • SharePoint lists/libraries with more than 5000 items/documents

    Shows SharePoint lists or libraries with more than 5000 items or documents

    Severity: Medium
  • Sites with disabled search

    Shows SharePoint Sites where search has been disabled

    Severity: Information
  • SharePoint Libraries with disabled search

    Shows SharePoint Libraries where search has been disabled

    Severity: Information
  • Site Collection is near subsite limit

    Shows Site Collections that have nearly reached the Subsite limit of 2000 sites per Site Collection

    Severity: Low
  • Site Collection is near the List/Library limit

    Shows Site Collections that have nearly reached the Subsite limit of 2000 List/Library limit per Site Collection

    Severity: Low
  • Site Collections has reached the List/Library limit

    Shows Site Collections that have reached the Subsite limit of 2000 List/Library limit per Site Collection

    Severity: Medium
  • Site Collection has reached the subsite limit

    Shows Site Collections that have reached the Subsite limit of 2000 sites per Site Collection

    Severity: Medium
  • Expired SharePoint File Sharings

    Shows SharePoint File Sharings file sharings which have reached their expiration date

  • Send a combined email to all owners of a Site Collection

    Send a single (combined) email to the owners of one SharePoint Site Collection

  • Send one email per Site Collection owner

    Send an email to every owner of one SharePoint Site Collection and directly addresses the user by first and last name

  • Delete SharePoint Site Collection

    Moves a SharePoint Site Collection to Site collection recycle bin

  • Restore Site Collection from recycle bin

    Restores a SharePoint Site Collection from Site collection recycle bin

  • Delete SharePoint Site Collection

    Moves a SharePoint Site Collection to Site collection recycle bin

  • Restore Site Collection from recycle bin

    Restores a SharePoint Site Collection from Site collection recycle bin

Explore the full SharePoint governance catalog | All guides

Trusted by

MAPALBAMVille de LuxembourgWACKERGRUNDFOSAMGENOsramLufthansaThyssenKruppSunrisePattern