SharePoint Audits

Get a clear, evidence-based view of your SharePoint environment, including structure, content, permissions, governance and Copilot readiness

Our SharePoint Audit identifies risks, inefficiencies and areas for improvement, then turns the findings into practical recommendations and a prioritised roadmap for what to address next.

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Evidence-Based Baseline

Understand what exists across SharePoint and how your environment is being used.

Technical Risk Visibility

Identify permission, sharing, governance and information-quality issues.

Copilot Readiness

See where SharePoint foundations may affect safe, useful Copilot adoption.

Prioritised Next Steps

Focus budget and resource on the improvements that matter most.

Understand Your SharePoint Environment Before Deciding What Comes Next

A SharePoint Audit gives IT teams a structured view of the current environment and the evidence needed to plan improvements.

The audit can be shaped around the areas you need to understand, including →

SharePoint sites, hubs, libraries and wider estate structure
Permissions, oversharing and external access
Content activity, storage and lifecycle signals
Information architecture, navigation, search and findability
Governance and information protection
Foundations for Microsoft Copilot and agents

What’s Included in a SharePoint Audit?

The exact scope is agreed around your environment and priorities. A SharePoint Audit can cover the following areas:

SharePoint Estate & Architecture

  • A baseline of agreed SharePoint sites, hubs, libraries and related structures
  • Review of topology, site organisation and areas of uncontrolled growth
  • High-level assessment of information architecture, navigation and search where included in scope

Content, Storage & Lifecycle

  • Analysis of lists, files, storage consumption and available activity signals
  • Identification of outdated, redundant or inactive information for further review
  • Visibility of content and ownership patterns that may require stronger lifecycle controls

Permissions, Sharing & Access

  • Review of access patterns across sites, libraries and content
  • Identification of oversharing, unique permission sprawl and broken inheritance
  • Assessment of external and guest access, sharing controls and lifecycle considerations

Governance & Information Protection

  • Review of governance signals, ownership and control across the environment
  • Assessment of relevant Microsoft Purview controls where included in scope
  • Consideration of sensitivity labels, Data Loss Prevention and retention requirements

Search, Findability & Knowledge

  • Review of how SharePoint structure supports access to important information
  • Analysis of available search and usage data where included in scope
  • Identification of areas where high-value content is difficult to find, inconsistently organised or poorly labelled

Copilot & Agent Readiness

  • High-level assessment of SharePoint structure, permissions and content-quality signals relevant to Copilot
  • Identification of oversharing and governance issues that could affect AI-generated answers
  • Recommendations for deeper assessment or remediation before wider rollout

Findings & Roadmap

  • Consolidated findings supported by audit evidence
  • Practical recommendations and quick wins
  • Prioritised next steps, dependencies and areas requiring deeper discovery

What You Get

Audit Report

An executive summary, detailed findings, supporting evidence and recommendations.

Environment Baseline

A structured view of the agreed sites, hubs, libraries, storage, usage and access information available within scope.

Risk & Governance View

Clear visibility of permission, sharing, ownership and governance issues that need attention.

Prioritised Roadmap

Recommended actions sequenced into immediate priorities, deeper investigation and longer-term improvement.

Findings Playback

A working session with key stakeholders to review the evidence, discuss recommendations and agree next steps.

How the SharePoint Audit Works

1. Scope

Agree which parts of your SharePoint environment to assess, which questions the audit needs to answer and the data required

2. Collect

Gather the agreed site and configuration data securely, working with your IT team to manage access and collection

3. Analyse

Review the audit outputs to identify patterns, risks, inefficiencies and areas that need deeper investigation

4. Recommend

Turn the evidence into practical recommendations and a prioritised roadmap

5. Review

Walk through the findings with IT and other relevant stakeholders, answer questions and agree what’s next

Secure & In Your Control

We work with your IT team to gather the agreed information securely, without changing sites, content or configuration. Access and collection are managed around your organisation’s requirements, and no standing tenant access is required.

Why Run a SharePoint Audit?

See Your Environment Clearly

Replace assumptions with an evidence-based view of your SharePoint estate, its structure and how it is being used.

Identify Risk Earlier

Surface permission, sharing, content and governance issues before they become larger remediation projects.

Prioritise Investment

Use the findings to decide where budget, internal resource and specialist support will have the greatest impact.

Plan Change with Confidence

Create a stronger starting point for governance, document management, migration, consolidation or intranet work.

Prepare for Copilot

Understand the SharePoint issues that may affect the security, relevance and reliability of Copilot responses.

Give IT a Practical Roadmap

Separate immediate actions from deeper structural work and sequence improvements around clear dependencies.

Who’s It For?

SharePoint Audits are designed for organisations that need a clearer technical understanding of their environment before deciding what to change, fix or invest in next.

It’s particularly useful for →

  • IT and Microsoft 365 teams who have inherited a SharePoint estate without a reliable view of its structure, usage or governance
  • SharePoint administrators dealing with site sprawl, complex permissions, external sharing or inconsistent controls
  • Organisations preparing for Copilot that want to understand potential information and access risks
  • IT teams planning a migration, consolidation, redesign or document-management programme
  • Organisations reviewing knowledge management, search or findability across SharePoint
  • IT leaders who need evidence and prioritised recommendations to support investment decisions

Get a Clearer View of Your SharePoint Environment

If you need to understand what exists across SharePoint, where the risks are and what to address first, a SharePoint Audit gives your IT team a practical place to start.

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