Preparing SharePoint for Copilot

Copilot can only provide trustworthy results when the content it can access is appropriately shared, current and well managed. This practical awareness workshop helps SharePoint & Teams owners and governance champions understand how Copilot uses organisational content, identify common oversharing and content-quality risks, and implement practical improvements.

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Is Your SharePoint Implementation Ready for Copilot?

Preparing your SharePoint environment for Copilot should therefore be viewed as both an information management exercise and a security initiative, and this phase of your Copilot roll-out should be a priority!

Preparing SharePoint for Copilot

3 Hours

Duration

Intermediate

Level

AU$290+GST

per person

Course Overview

Microsoft 365 Copilot can only provide trustworthy results when the content it can access is appropriately shared, current and well managed. This practical awareness workshop helps SharePoint site owners, Microsoft Teams owners and governance champions understand how Copilot uses organisational content, identify common oversharing and content-quality risks, and implement practical improvements.

Demonstrations and guided review activities provide participants with a repeatable approach to improving the readiness of the sites and teams they manage. 

Audience

This course is designed for SharePoint site owners, Microsoft Teams owners, Microsoft 365 champions, content owners, department coordinators and governance representatives. It is particularly suited to people who are responsible for business content and access but do not perform tenant-wide Microsoft 365 administration. 

Course Prerequisites

Participants should understand the basic use of SharePoint sites, document libraries, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups. Experience managing site membership or sharing content is helpful. No scripting, Microsoft Purview or advanced administrator experience is required. 

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Prerequisites

SharePoint for End Users

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Course Modules

Module 1: How Copilot Uses SharePoint Content

This module explains how Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents locate and use organisational content. Participants will understand why existing permissions, sharing settings, search visibility and content quality directly influence the security and usefulness of Copilot responses.
 
  • How Copilot grounds responses in Microsoft 365 content 
  • Microsoft Graph, search and permission trimming 
  • Why Copilot exposes existing information-management weaknesses 
  • The relationship between SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups 
  • Common Copilot readiness risks and misconceptions 

Module 2: Recognising Oversharing and Access Risks

This module helps site and team owners recognise the permission and sharing patterns most likely to create unintended content exposure. Participants will learn how to review access at a practical site-owner level and identify issues that require administrator support. 
 
  • Understanding site owners, members, visitors and Microsoft 365 Groups 
  • Broad access groups and organisation-wide sharing 
  • Direct access, sharing links and external users 
  • Broken inheritance and unique permissions 
  • Ownerless sites and unclear accountability 
  • When to escalate risks to Microsoft 365 administrators 

Module 3: Improving Content Quality and Information Architecture

This module considers whether the content available to Copilot is current, authoritative and easy to interpret. Participants will learn simple techniques for improving structure, ownership, metadata and search relevance without redesigning the entire environment. 
 
  • Identifying authoritative sources of information 
  • Reviewing stale, duplicate and superseded content 
  • Content ownership and review dates 
  • Libraries, folders, metadata and content types 
  • Improving page, document and site naming 
  • Managing inactive pages, broken links and content gaps 

Module 4: Applying Practical Remediation

This module provides a structured approach to resolving common readiness issues. Participants will examine low-risk changes that site owners can implement immediately and controls that require coordination with SharePoint, security or compliance administrators. 
 
  • Removing unnecessary access and outdated sharing links 
  • Reviewing group membership and external access 
  • Archiving, deleting or clearly marking outdated content 
  • Applying consistent ownership and review practices 
  • Sensitivity and retention considerations 
  • Using temporary discovery restrictions during remediation 

Module 5: Maintaining Copilot Readiness

The final module turns readiness from a one-off clean-up exercise into an ongoing site-management practice. Participants will create a practical checklist for periodic reviews and understand how their responsibilities support broader Microsoft 365 governance. 
 
  • Creating a recurring site health review 
  • Site attestation and ownership reviews 
  • Monitoring changes in content and access 
  • Documenting remediation decisions 
  • Preparing evidence for governance and compliance teams 
  • Developing a site-level Copilot readiness action plan 

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All our trainers are Microsoft 365 experts in their own right, and must first be qualified to teach in our own World Education Alliance (WEA) Training Certification Program before delivering any of our courses.

We feel that it is important that all of the trainers and instructors can take their real-world experiences into the classroom, in order to ensure that they are well equipped to respond to any queries and questions which may be put their way, as well as give accurate and relevant guidance in the most appropriate methods to leverage the technology which SharePoint and its related tools provide.

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Although we allow a maximum of only 10 attendees on our public courses, the average is around 5 students, therefore each participant will leave the course feeling like they received the personal attention they deserve.

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