The console used by SharePoint Administrators to look after sites, sharing across the organisation, storage and versioning, along with the SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities.
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Terms in this definition
- General-purpose v1
The older storage account kind (
Storage), which lacks access tiers, Archive and premium file shares and retires on 13 October 2026. Converting to ZRS requires first upgrading to GPv2, a one-way change. - Versioning
When enabled on Blob Storage, earlier versions of each blob are retained. Point-in-time restore depends on it, though it never purges data itself.
- SharePoint Advanced Management
An add-on for SharePoint governance, bundled with Microsoft 365 Copilot, that helps detect and cut oversharing via site access reviews, restricted content discovery, restricted access control and data access governance reports.
Related terms
- Data access governance reports
Oversharing reports found in the SharePoint admin center with SharePoint Advanced Management. Snapshot reports list site permissions and content shared with Everyone or EEEU, while activity reports track sharing links and EEEU sharing across the previous 28 days.