Imagine you have less than 200 people in your organisation but 2.8 million files in SharePoint accumulated over the past 24 years. There are duplicates, various versions of the same file, outdated information and way too many files shared organisation-wide. And now you have taken M365 Copilot into use. How are you going to deal with it all?

This year, SharePoint turned 24, and during those years, it has achieved a lot:
– It is one of the most widely spread document management systems in the world.
– A document management system that most users don’t even realise they are using (thanks to Teams).
– Trusted storage where space never runs out in the cloud, and users never delete anything: over 1.6 billion new files are created every month in SharePoint.

For a long time, most of those people had no idea about all those files, but now Copilot has made it all very visible to users and IT departments around the globe. And it’s terrible. The quality of data is just… terrible. So what to do?

In this session, we will go through a real-life case about a starting point of 2.8 million files in an M365 tenant for less than 200 people, and what actions were taken & which tools were used to reduce the number of files and protect the remaining ones. You will learn how Microsoft Purview and SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) can help in this daunting task and where it’s just a matter of manual work and educating the users. And what in the name of Copilot can you do to prevent this from ever happening again?!