Enhancing M365 Governance: How Orchestry Powers Compliance and Control
In today’s article, Conall O’Kane, Modern Workplace Practice Manager at Storm, outlines some of the key features of Orchestry that can help your business enhance the security and governance of its Microsoft 365 environment.
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For many organisations Microsoft 365 is at the core of daily operations, facilitating seamless communication and collaboration across departments, staff, and even external collaborators. But with that comes a challenge. How do you keep your environment secure, compliant, and well-governed without slowing down your teams? The issue is that many tools often leave security blind spots like insufficient controls, unmonitored workspaces, or hidden sharing links, all of which can put your data or environment at risk. Businesses that want to maximise security and governance, without compromising collaboration and productivity, need a solution like Orchestry. Orchestry is a Microsoft 365 governance tool that delivers deep visibility, powerful remediation tools, and automation capabilities that keep your Teams, SharePoint, and other M365 tools secure and compliant, without adding unnecessary complexity. Below, we explore some of the key features of Orchestry that help you enhance your M365 governance and security.
Centralised Governance
Governance doesn’t need to be scattered across tools. Orchestry offers a centralised space to manage everything to do with M365 governance, from insights and reports to remediation measures. Workspace Review keeps tabs on your Teams and SharePoint environments, allowing site owners to review site membership, clean up document versions, review sharing links, and more.
The platform also provides Metrics and Insights, Health Checks, and Intelligent Reporting, giving businesses a holistic view of risks, usage patterns, and performance across their Microsoft 365 environment.
System Visibility and Control
Something as simple as a shared link can eventually become a bigger problem for IT teams, resulting in issues like unmanaged exposure, permissions sprawl, and even audit failures. Orchestry offers advanced visibility into your M365 tenant, bringing transparency to places where the out-of-the-box tools fall short. With Orchestry, organisations gain full, tenant-wide discovery of all sharing links, whether its Teams, SharePoint, anonymous, organisation-wide, or guest-specific. Users can then filter by creator, type, and access metrics, and then remove risky or outdated links in bulk or individually, helping IT to teams close potential security gaps before they become breaches.
Broken permission inheritance is another subtle security gap. This is what happens when a SharePoint item, library, or folder stops inheriting permissions from its original parent site or library, and instead has unique permissions applied at a lower level, either accidentally or intentionally. As with shared links, detecting and managing these broken permissions can be difficult, especially at scale, and this often creates hidden security risks if not tracked and managed properly. Orchestry can spot every item where permissions have been diverged from parent-level settings, showing who has what access and where it originated, and lets users restore original inheritance with just one click. These tools help IT teams manage what would otherwise be highly manual and time-consuming processes with ease, and gain greater control over the business’ Microsoft 365 environment.
Automated Governance
Governance shouldn’t be a full-time job for IT teams. Orchestry automates policy enforcement across your M365 landscape, so your IT team can focus on strategy rather than scripts. Enforce workspace provisioning rules, naming conventions, guest access policies, retention and lifecycle timelines, all from one accessible, user-friendly interface. Organisations can also receive intelligent recommendations that help drive their digital maturity forward, one action at a time.
Better Prepare for AI
Microsoft Copilot is only as safe and useful as the environment it operates within. Orchestry helps businesses implement governance controls that minimise oversharing and data leakage, ensuring Copilot only sees what’s appropriate. This means your business can harness the benefits of generative AI without compromising the security of its data.
For companies that don’t have Copilot yet, the Copilot Readiness Dashboard aggregates 13 governance signals to reveal how prepared your organisation is for AI usage, allowing the organisation to see where it falls short and better prepare for an AI-driven world of work.
Orchestry transforms M365 governance from a manual drain into a streamlined, secure, and scalable framework. With deep visibility, powerful remediation, automation, and an AI-ready approach, all wrapped in an intuitive interface, Orchestry doesn’t just fill gaps, it helps build future-ready compliance.
If you would like to learn more about Orchestry, check out our on-demand webinar, ‘Governance, Security & Control: Rethinking SharePoint in the Age of AI,’ where Joy Apple, Microsoft MVP and Director of Success & Enablement at Orchestry, demonstrates the solution in action. Alternatively, you can reach out to a member of our team to avail of a free 28-day trial of Orchestry to help you get started.
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