Posts tagged Cloud Management & Strategy
- AI Governance
Understanding Microsoft Agent 365 Pricing: What You Need to Know
The use of Agents in Microsoft 365 is rapidly increasing. Agents create many opportunities and interesting business cases for organizations, but also raise practical questions about control, cost,…
- AI Governance
Operationalizing AI agents: What every IT and compliance leader should know
Beyond familiar scripts and automations, a new class of software is emerging: AI agents. These intelligent agents are designed to perform tasks that were once manual, connecting systems and people in…
- AI Governance
AI governance in regulated industries: How to manage risk, compliance, and control
The promise of AI to drive efficiency is undeniable, but for a defense contractor, a single misplaced query could leak classified data. For a hospital, it could expose sensitive patient records.…
- AI Governance
Best AI governance platforms for enterprises in 2026
The rapid deployment of AI agents and tools like Microsoft Copilot presents enterprises with a dual reality: immense productivity gains and significant governance risks. Without a proper oversight…
- AI Governance
Manage and Secure AI Agents with Microsoft's Agent 365 and Purview
There is a lot of talk about AI Agents, but what actually is an AI Agent? According to the official Microsoft documentation, an agent is:
- AI Governance
Transforming IT Operations in the Era of AI Agents
The opening keynote of the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference Autumn S. and Paul Delory landed at a moment where many IT leaders already feel the ground shifting…
- AI Governance
Is Microsoft Copilot worth it? A 5 point cost vs. benefit analysis
Microsoft Copilot is being sold as a step change in productivity. But for CIOs and compliance managers, its rapid rollout brings a critical question: is the promised business value worth the total…
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James Westlake Joins Rencore as Chief Revenue Officer to drive next stage of global growth
We are absolutely delighted to start the new year with some celebratory fireworks of our own and announce that James Westlake has joined Rencore as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). As CRO, James will…
- AI Governance
Rencore Governance in retrospect 2025 - Rencore
2025 has been a transformative year for cloud governance. Organizations worldwide faced new challenges as Microsoft accelerated innovation, delivering waves of new features, deeper integrations, and…
- Collaboration Governance
Managing and monitoring your data with retention labels
Your corporate and personal data in Microsoft 365 is exploding, and oversharing sensitive data happens on a daily basis. Your colleagues are using public generative A.I. apps in combination with your…
- AI Governance
Agent 365 and the Governance Challenge Ahead
Many organizations underestimate the depth of the shift that agent-based work will introduce. The narrative often remains focused on Copilot, SharePoint agents, flows, and the early wave of Copilot…
- AI Governance
PRESS RELEASE: Rencore extends Series A to USD 15 million to accelerate AI governance growth and international expansion
Munich, Germany - Rencore today announced it has extended its Series A funding to a total of USD 15 million. The extension round was led by European technology investor Hi Inov, with continued…
- Collaboration Governance
Managing and monitoring your data with Data Loss Prevention
The volume of corporate and personal data within your Microsoft 365 environment is rapidly increasing, leading to frequent occurrences of sensitive information being inadvertently overshared.…
- AI Governance
AI governance for Microsoft 365: From Copilot risks to EU AI Act readiness
Agents are already running inside your tenant, created by people who never filed a ticket: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power Automate flows, and Microsoft Loop workspaces acting on your most critical…
- AI Governance
The rise of Microsoft AI agents: What IT leaders need to know about governance
Your Microsoft 365 tenant may already be full of AI agents you didn’t authorize. From custom bots built in Copilot Studio to workflow agents created in Power Platform, these digital workers are…
- AI Governance
How to Control Agent Sprawl in Microsoft 365 - Rencore
As organizations embrace AI-driven tools like Microsoft Copilot and custom agents , a new governance challenge has emerged: agent sprawl. This blog explores the implications of decentralized agent…
- Collaboration Governance
Managing and monitoring your data with sensitivity labels
Your corporate and personal data in Microsoft 365 is exploding, and oversharing sensitive data happens on a daily basis. Your colleagues are using public generative A.I. apps in combination with your…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Top 10 Microsoft 365 Governance Automations: Transforming Chaos into Control
For today’s IT leaders, Microsoft 365 is both a blessing and a challenge. Its flexibility and power have made it the backbone of modern collaboration, but with that power comes a daunting level of…
- AI Governance
AI compliance: Your strategic guide to secure and scalable AI
The race to adopt enterprise AI is on. From Microsoft Copilot enhancing productivity to custom Power Platform apps solving unique business challenges, the potential is undeniable. But as adoption…
- AI Governance
AI regulation in Europe: Your guide to the EU AI Act and Microsoft 365 compliance
From August 2026, the EU AI Act’s strictest obligations for high-risk AI apply, and questions like which AI systems do we run, what data do they touch, and who oversees them stop being optional.…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
AI Monitoring in Microsoft 365: Why It’s Non-Negotiable
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how we work, innovate, and interact, particularly within collaborative environments like Microsoft 365. From automating tasks to generating…
- Cost Optimization & Licensing
Microsoft Copilot pricing: Real costs and ROI tips
Microsoft Copilot lands on the budget as a fixed per-seat cost and stays there, used or not. Forrester’s Total Economic Impact study puts the ROI at 116% once the program is adopted and governed, and…
- AI Governance
What is agentic AI and what it means for Microsoft 365 governance
Agentic AI is opening a bold new frontier in artificial intelligence. One that promises to redefine productivity, automate complexity, and unlock unprecedented business value. Unlike its…
- Collaboration Governance
Shared Responsibility: The key to a successful Microsoft 365 Governance strategy
Creating and managing a Microsoft 365 governance strategy is a shared responsibility. Speaking from my own experience, it can be tempting to take the lead and do as much as possible by yourself. This…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Introducing Copilot & Agent Governance: Rencore’s AI governance module for Microsoft 365
Enterprise AI is here, reshaping workflows, decisions, and digital collaboration. According to Gartner, a staggering 94% of organizations believe AI offers transformative benefits. Yet, a crucial…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Introducing the Next-Generation Rencore Governance User Experience
Effective governance demands tools that match the sophistication of modern enterprise requirements. That's why we're really proud to unveil a complete transformation of the Rencore Governance user…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
AI Risk Management in Practice: From Security to Trust
Your people are already using AI on your data. The question your board will ask is not whether the tools work, it is whether you can prove what they touched, who authorized it, and what happened…
- Collaboration Governance
Monitor and protect your sensitive data from Shadow AI
While you are reading this article, your employees are already using generative AI services, whether you like it or not. They're uploading, potentially sensitive, company data into ChatGPT or similar…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
The Hidden Challenge: Ensuring IT Oversight of SharePoint Agents
Over the past 18 months, Microsoft 365 Copilot has rolled out across enterprise environments with cautious optimism. Many organizations are still exploring it via pilot programs or phased rollouts.…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Mastering M365 AI Governance in 2025
It seems like Microsoft are reaching new heights with Microsoft Copilot capabilities each month and it is hard to keep up. From Copilot chat to Copilot for M365, Copilot Studio and beyond, both…
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Build a Strong Foundation for Microsoft 365 Copilot, The Role of Data Lifecycle
Hey everyone! Today, I want to talk about something that’s becoming more relevant in many organizations: Microsoft 365 Copilot . This AI-powered assistant can truly help you work smarter and more…
- Collaboration Governance
Protecting Your Digital Assets: Strategies for M365 Content Security
In our previous article I provided our recommendations for effective content management for your sites & teams in Microsoft 365. We are now moving towards strategies for protecting your digital…
- Collaboration Governance
Recommendations for Effective Content Management for Sites & Teams
We live in a time where collaboration and information sharing are crucial to our daily work lives. It is a good thing Microsoft is there to help out with its Microsoft 365 apps. Their apps, which we…
- Collaboration Governance
Taming the Microsoft 365 Content Jungle: A Guide to Managing Sprawl with Governance
Microsoft 365 is a powerhouse of tools designed to enhance collaboration and productivity. Services like Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive are the stars of the show, but the ecosystem is vast, with…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Recap: Microsoft's Ignite 2024 announcements and their impact
I’m writing this from a café in a ski resort in southern Finland. My kids are downhill skiing, each with their respective styles, and I was allowed to get coffee and focus on writing this. It’s a…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
SharePoint Advanced Management: Features & governance gaps
Your sensitive data, your agents, and your sprawl are spread across Teams, OneDrive, Power Platform, and Copilot. SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) controls one of those services, and that…
- Collaboration Governance
#GOVember is back! A month of awesome tips for productive, secure and cost-efficient collaboration
As we approach the end of the year, organizations worldwide are ensuring they get the most from their 2024 budget allocations. This isn't just about numbers, though! It's also a chance to…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Building Copilot Agents and Controlling them with Rencore Governance
Anyone in your organization can now build an AI agent that reads your SharePoint, connects to your systems, and acts on their behalf, without writing code and without asking IT first. Gartner expects…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Get the best out of your Microsoft Secure Score: A checklist
We are delighted to announce that we have published a new checklist on how to boost Secure Score.
- Collaboration Governance
How to save a fortune on M365 storage
Microsoft 365 storage is a bill that grows on its own: your people create content every day, nobody deletes it, and the overage charge arrives whether or not anyone can say what is in it or who owns…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Risk Assessment QuickStart Guide Explained
A few weeks ago, Microsoft released an important guide to its Copilot users, a document that helps organizations carry out a risk assessment of Copilot for Microsoft 365 .
- Cloud Management & Strategy
What does Microsoft 365 governance for enterprises look like?
Are governance frameworks universal? Can organizations of all sizes rely on one single governance framework?
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Rarely Asked Questions (RAQs) about Microsoft 365 governance
Microsoft 365 governance is a critical aspect of ensuring the security, compliance, and efficient management of an organization's digital workspace. But in reality, how easy is it to pull this off?
- Cloud Management & Strategy
How AI is shaping a new era of modern work
At the very beginning of 2024, I wrote a blog article sharing my impressions about the future of cloud collaboration and what the year is expected to bring about in terms of new innovations and…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Webinar Q&A: AI meets low-code development: A deep dive into Copilot Studio
Recently, we conducted a live webinar on Copilot Studio that garnered a lot of interest from our audience. During the well-attended webinar, our expert speaker Idlir Islamaj - Senior Power Platform…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Microsoft Power BI governance: A comprehensive guide
The powerful business intelligence (BI) and data visualization tool Microsoft Power BI has transformed how organizations handle data. But with great power comes great responsibility. As businesses…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Copilot for Microsoft 365 vs. Copilot Studio: What's the difference?
Two Microsoft products share the Copilot name, and they expose your tenant in very different ways. Copilot for Microsoft 365 reads what your users can already reach; Copilot Studio lets almost anyone…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Free whitepaper! Regulating your AI companion: Best practices for Microsoft Copilot governance
We are delighted to announce that we have published the free guide “Regulating your AI companion: Best practices for Microsoft Copilot governance”. This whitepaper explores the adoption of AI tools…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
How to save M365 licensing costs
Hello, my name is Sven, and today I want to share some quick tips on saving M365 licensing costs using our tool, Rencore Governance. Let's dive right in and watch the video below!
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Bring Your Own Device Policy: How to Secure Devices Within Microsoft 365
Every personal laptop and phone that reaches your corporate data is an endpoint you do not own and cannot fully account for. Here is how to take control of bring-your-own device (BYOD) risk inside…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
From AI assistant to AI co-worker: What is Team Copilot?
Copilot has been a game-changer not only for its users but also for the tech giant Microsoft. It has now announced an expansion of Copilot for Microsoft 365 with the new Team Copilot. This…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
How to Centrally Manage M365 Data
Hello, my name is Sven, and today I'll demonstrate how you can leverage dashboards in Rencore Governance for centralized governance and tool adoption in Microsoft 365. let’s get into it and watch the…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
How to control public and private teams
Hi, I'm Sven from Rencore and today I want to talk to you about public and private teams and how to maneuver them when introducing Copilot or taking into account a lack of provisioned content assets.…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
How to deal with inactive external users
Hello! I’m Sven Seidenberg and I am going to show you how to solve the most asked for cloud collaboration governance challenges with our incredibly easy-to-use tool Rencore Governance!
- Collaboration Governance
Webinar Q&A: Spring Clean your Microsoft 365
How does one Spring Clean a Microsoft 365 tenant? We’re glad you asked! One of the initiatives of our Spring Clean month at Rencore is a special webinar, where we help you with tips and resources to…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Tidy-up your Microsoft 365 and stay in control: A checklist
Nothing sparks more joy than a clean and tidy Microsoft 365 tenant, does it not? If you've been following us for a while, you know that March is the Spring Cleaning month at Rencore. Like in the…
- AI Governance
Microsoft Copilot: Establishing governance for responsible AI assistance
Months after Microsoft made Copilot available for audiences worldwide, many organizations are already looking into introducing this AI tool for their teams.
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Top 10 collaboration tips with Microsoft Teams
Most collaboration friction in Teams is not a tooling gap, it is an agreement gap. Nobody decided where a conversation belongs, so it happens everywhere at once. In this blog post, I introduce ten…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
How Rencore Governance can work for you
I like to think we are in a golden age for digital collaboration . Four years since the start of the decade, hybrid and flexible working is a global norm, and we are at the cusp of widespread AI…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Viva Topics & Learning: Deep dive into governing growth pillar in Microsoft Viva
The Microsoft Viva platform is made up of 10 modules, split across 5 pillars, Connections, Insights, Purpose, Growth and Empowerment. Each Microsoft Viva module has its own focus. In this article, we…
- Collaboration Governance
Navigating productivity and privacy: A deep dive into Viva Insights governance
Microsoft Viva Insights is a productivity tool within the Viva suite. Viva Insights allows you to gain visibility into your everyday workplace activities such as communication behaviors and…
- Collaboration Governance
#GOVember campaign is back! A month of awesome cost-saving & security tips
As we approach the year-end, everything related to spending and optimizing costs gains renewed importance as budgets are being planned for 2024 - not to mention those upcoming trends that need to be…
- Collaboration Governance
Microsoft Loop: Bridging the gap for seamless team collaboration
Microsoft Loop puts a new kind of content into your tenant: pages and components that live in OneDrive and SharePoint, sync into Teams and Outlook, and are read by Microsoft 365 Copilot like any…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Microsoft Teams Governance: How to strengthen collaboration & security
In the previous article , I talked about Shadow IT and how important a cloud governance strategy is to keep Shadow IT within your organization in check. I talked about roles & responsibilities,…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Microsoft 365 offboarding checklist: The security guide 2026
Most organizations have onboarding down to an art form. Accounts get provisioned, licenses get assigned, and new hires are up and running within hours. But when someone leaves? That process often…
- Collaboration Governance
How to plan Microsoft Viva Connections governance for your organization
Microsoft Viva is an employee focused suite of products and therefore, there is a need to be extra diligent in ensuring rigorous controls within your organization’s configuration.
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Accelerating your Power Platform Center of Excellence with CoE Starter Kit
Citizen-built apps and automations multiply faster than any admin team can review them, and each one carries data, permissions, and a cost that someone eventually has to answer for. A Center of…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Microsoft Viva Engage governance: Everything you need to know
Viva Engage carries some of the most sensitive conversation in your organisation, and Microsoft's own controls do not reach all of it: Purview DLP does not apply to Viva Engage messages, and…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Learnings from the Microsoft 365 guest accounts vulnerability
If you are following news around Cloud Governance or Cloud Security, chances are you have heard what Michael Bargury, CTO at low-code security and governance company Zenity, pointed out in his…
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How to optimize productivity in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem
In a continuously evolving digital-first business landscape, the Microsoft 365 ecosystem has proven to be an integral component of efficient collaboration and productivity. To harness the full…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Understanding Microsoft 365 tenant segmentation for better security, compliance and governance
As a Microsoft 365 admin or IT pro, you know that the platform offers a variety of services and applications that can increase productivity and streamline workflows for your organization. However,…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Microsoft Viva: An Administrator’s View
Microsoft Viva does not arrive as one product. It arrives as a set of modules spread across every Microsoft 365 workload, each with its own admin roles, licences, and privacy settings, and the…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Take control of your M365 governance: Strategies and best practices
Good governance is essential to the security, compliance, and effective management of your organization’s digital assets. In a recent webinar with fellow Microsoft MVP, Stacy Deere, we walked through…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Explained: What is Microsoft Viva
Microsoft launched their Employee Experience Platform, Microsoft Viva, in February 2021. The Microsoft Viva platform provides tools for organisations to foster a healthy work culture whilst making it…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
How to future-proof your business by prioritizing ESG metrics
Attribute it to the rapid digital acceleration in a post pandemic world or changing perspectives towards a sustainable life and future, sustainability has already found its way into the core values…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Towards a greener Microsoft environment: Why sustainable IT is a step in the right direction
At a time when Information Technology (IT) and digitization have become the driving forces for organizations worldwide to better collaborate and get business done, the topic of sustainability,…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Including Loop within your Governance Strategy
Every new collaboration surface in Microsoft 365 arrives as a new class of object your people create faster than anyone can inventory it: who made it, who can reach it, what data it holds, and who…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Join in the BIG Microsoft 365 Spring Cleaning! #SpringCleanM365
Operating a secure, performant, and cost-efficient cloud collaboration environment is the desired state for organizations of all shapes and sizes. However, not everyone knows how to achieve it.
- Cloud Management & Strategy
The importance of implementing cloud collaboration governance solutions in your organization
One prevalent theme of the 2020s seems to be this: many organizations are facing pressures to cut costs , while continuing to expand their business operations. Cloud collaboration governance can help…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
The art of successful M365 adoption: Identify and include your Microsoft 365 governance stakeholders
Microsoft 365 usage has skyrocketed over the last few years. Requiring organizations to step up their game related to governance, adoption, security & compliance. Otherwise, there is an increased…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Managing SharePoint through the SharePoint Admin Center
Managing SharePoint can be a challenge. There’s just so much of it. For larger businesses with more employees, this can make implementing policies tricky. Thankfully, SharePoint has a built-in admin…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
SharePoint permissions and external sharing
Collaboration in business is essential. Whether it’s between your teams across departments or an external partnership with third-party collaborators you need to make the process as smooth as…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
SharePoint and OneDrive governance
As mapped out in the first blog post in this two-part series, SharePoint and OneDrive are your go-to Microsoft services when storing and sharing data. However, there’s a lot to look out for when…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Prepare for Enforced SharePoint Site Limits: Key Actions to Take Now
Microsoft has communicated that they will enforce the previously recommended threshold of 2000 lists and libraries per site and 2000 subsites per site. You need to prepare for these SharePoint Site…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Free whitepaper! Complete visibility across Microsoft 365
We are delighted to announce that we have published the free guide “Complete visibility across Microsoft 365”, which explores why visibility is crucial for governance, cost reduction, and security.…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Rencore Governance monthly update: June Roundup!
Hello again! As we spring into Summer, I am happy to bring you some more Rencore Governance updates with this monthly feature roundup.
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Microsoft 365 availability and performance: operational governance
Microsoft 365 has become, for most companies, a crucial and integral part of their daily business operations. The employees use a variety of Microsoft 365 services (for example: Microsoft Teams,…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Free Microsoft 365 governance strategy whitepaper! Build vs. Buy, what’s the right path for you?
We are delighted to announce that we have published the Microsoft 365 governance strategy whitepaper: Build vs. Buy, what’s the right path for you? The free whitepaper outlines the challenges of…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Managing the sprawl of Teams in your Microsoft 365 environment
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft Teams has seen a huge increase in its usage. At the start of the pandemic, April 2020, 75 million daily active users were registered [1] . This…
- Collaboration Governance
Free Microsoft 365 whitepaper! Essential Cloud Governance Planning: Keep Microsoft 365 Decluttered
We are delighted to announce the publication of the first whitepaper in our Essential Cloud Governance Planning series: "Declutter Microsoft 365." The free whitepaper addresses an important cloud…
- Collaboration Governance
Microsoft 365 collaboration governance: How to share Teams with external users
Inviting external users to your Microsoft Teams environment is necessary for collaboration, but it is also risky if you do not control their user permissions correctly.
- Collaboration Governance
How to uncomplicate Microsoft 365 governance and save time
Governance is a broad, sometimes daunting topic with many stakeholders. Traditionally, a corporate governance structure keeps the status quo between the “terms and conditions” and those “contracted”…
- Collaboration Governance
The rise of Power Automate: Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the digital ecosystem
Since the renaming of Flow to Power Automate, there has always been something more on the horizon than just the classic flows and connectors that the rebranded service is renowned for. On April 2nd,…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Power Automate best practices: What admins can't see and how to fix it
Power Automate puts automation in the hands of every employee, and every flow they build runs on their permissions, against your data, on a schedule nobody in IT approved. That is a control problem…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
What is a power user in Microsoft 365
It’s fair to say that standard business users are more empowered to solve digital business problems today than they were at the turn of the century. Digital collaboration is far more advanced. Using…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Microsoft 365 advanced data governance: what you need to know
Nothing focuses attention on who can reach what quite like a sudden change in how people work. The rapid global adoption of Microsoft Teams did exactly that: remote working arrived out of necessity…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
10 tips for home office success
We know that a lot of you have embraced working remotely to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus, and it’s not always easy to transition from office to home office.
- Cloud Management & Strategy
What is Power Automate: Go with the Flow!
What is Power Automate? Power Automate is Microsoft’s process automation platform that taps into both the low-code, no-code and automation movements, facilitating the custom automation of business…
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From our partners: Vesa Juvonen from Microsoft
Through the events we attend, we speak to some of the leading people in the Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 community. We were thrilled when Vesa Juvonen Principal Program Manager at Microsoft…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Understanding Microsoft Secure Score in Microsoft 365
Every board eventually asks the same question about Microsoft 365: how exposed are we, and is that getting better or worse? Microsoft 365 answers part of it with a tool called Secure Score, which…
