Session Abstract

Sprawl shows up everywhere: too many teams and sites, duplicated content, over-permissioned access, drifting configurations, and a growing long tail of apps and customizations. In the AI era, that chaos becomes an ever increasing risk to productivity, security, and cost. Join Richard Harbridge, Microsoft MVP, as he shares a practical operating model of Find → Fix → Prevent to bring Microsoft 365 under control across collaboration, content, security, configuration, and extensibility. Who should attend Microsoft 365 admins, security/compliance teams, and platform owners responsible for governance, management, security, and experience. Key takeaways • A practical catalog of Microsoft 365 sprawl types, why they matter and how to detect them early. • Patterns that accelerate remediation and resolution (across services, sites, teams, and more). • How to monitor, measure, and adapt governance as Microsoft 365 evolves. • Useful Microsoft 365 governance planning guides and checklists

Note to event organizers

While we often have sessions that go into Purview, security posture improvements and more the sprawl discussion often isn't tackled holistically - yet there are ways to do it well across Microsoft 365, Copilot, Power Platform and more. This session dives into that with practical recommendations, guidance and tactical take away tools.

Richard Harbridge

Richard Harbridge is an Ecosystem Collaboration & Alliances Lead, author, internationally recognized speaker, and a Microsoft MVP. With a wealth of experience, Richard has led and operated multiple thriving businesses and currently serves as a trusted advisor to hundreds of organizations. He specializes in helping businesses understand their current and future needs, guiding them to take strategic actions that drive growth and achieve their ambitious goals. Richard is known for his hands-on approach, having led, architected, and implemented countless business and technology solutions that have catalyzed digital and organizational transformations. His passion lies in empowering organizations to achieve more, whether through creating award winning experiences that enhance employee and technology strategies or by leveraging emerging technologies to improve the value they deliver to their customers, partners, and communities. As sought-after speaker and leader, Richard frequently shares his expertise on employee experience, AI, the digital workplace, technology adoption, and Microsoft technologies at industry events worldwide. Richard is proud to work at Workleap, makers of ShareGate and also contributes to several committees, research teams, leads CIO think tanks, and facilitates employee experience and technology groups.

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