How to govern Operation in Microsoft Agent 365
A step-by-step guide to governing Operation in Microsoft Agent 365 with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Operation in Microsoft Agent 365 means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Microsoft Agent 365 with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Operation.
Steps
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Inventory Microsoft Agent 365
Connect Microsoft Agent 365 and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Operation in Microsoft Agent 365 to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Microsoft Agent 365 reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Microsoft Agent 365 controls for Operation
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Microsoft Agent 365 catalog on the Microsoft Agent 365 connector page.
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Agent Missing Publisher
Flags agents that have no publisher recorded in the agent registry, making accountability and escalation impossible.
Severity: Medium -
Custom Agent Deployed Tenant-Wide
Identifies custom-built agents that are deployed to every user in the tenant, where individual-author agents may not have gone through the same review as vendor apps.
Severity: Medium -
Blueprint Has No Owners
Flags agent identity blueprints that have no owners registered in the owners collection.
Severity: High -
Blueprint Has No Sponsors
Flags agent identity blueprints that have no sponsors registered in the sponsors collection.
Severity: Medium -
Unused Blueprint
Flags agent identity blueprints that have no linked agent identities.
Severity: Low -
Blueprint Credential Expiring Within 30 Days
Flags agent identity blueprints with at least one passwordCredential or keyCredential expiring in the next 30 days.
Severity: Medium -
Identity Has No Owners
Flags agent identities that have no owners registered.
Severity: High -
Identity Has No Sponsors
Flags agent identities that have no sponsors registered.
Severity: High -
Agent User Has No Sponsors
Flags agent user accounts that have no sponsors registered.
Severity: High -
Active Identity With a Disabled Agent User
Flags enabled agent identities whose linked agent user account has been disabled - a half-decommissioned agent.
Severity: Medium -
Blueprint Has a Deactivated Owner or Sponsor
Flags agent identity blueprints whose owner or sponsor has a disabled Microsoft Entra user account.
Severity: Medium -
Identity Has a Deactivated Owner or Sponsor
Flags agent identities whose owner or sponsor has a disabled Microsoft Entra user account.
Severity: Medium -
Agent User Has a Deactivated Sponsor or Manager
Flags agent users whose sponsor or manager has a disabled Microsoft Entra user account, breaking the sponsorship-continuity chain.
Severity: Medium -
Blueprint credential expiring within 30 days (likelihood)
Risk-probability factor: a credential approaching expiry raises the likelihood of an outage or unsafe hot-rotation.
Severity: Medium -
Agent user has no manager (likelihood)
Risk-probability factor: an agent user without a manager has no auto-cascade target for sponsorship, raising the likelihood of orphaned permissions.
Severity: Medium -
Custom-built agent package (likelihood)
Risk-probability factor: custom-built agents skip vendor-grade vetting, modestly raising the likelihood of latent issues in declared behavior, data access, or prompt safety.
Severity: Low -
Agents by Type
Breaks down the tenant agent registry by package source type (custom, external, builtin).
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Agent Inventory
Full inventory of agents and apps in the tenant agent registry.
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Agent Identities by Blueprint
Counts agent identities per blueprint, computed by matching agentIdentityBlueprintId to a blueprint's appId.
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Agent Identity Inventory
Full inventory of Microsoft Entra agent identities.
