Admins choose sites from a data access governance report and email the owners, asking them to check for oversharing (for example through sharing links or EEEU access) and put it right. Owners then mark the review complete and can leave comments. Part of SharePoint Advanced Management.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Site access review in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Governance
Keeping cloud deployments in line with an organisation's rules on technology, security and compliance, helped by Azure Policy, tags and resource locks.
- EEEU
SharePoint's built-in group of all internal users, guests excluded. Anything shared with it, such as a public site or item, is open to the whole organisation and may appear in Microsoft 365 Copilot answers.
- Deployment modes
The two ways ARM can deploy: Incremental, the default, creates or updates what the template lists and ignores everything else; Complete also removes resource group contents absent from the template.
- 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.