Governance guide

How to govern Inventory in Microsoft 365

A step-by-step guide to governing Inventory in Microsoft 365 with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.

Definition

Governing Inventory in Microsoft 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 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 Inventory.

Steps

  1. Inventory Microsoft 365

    Connect Microsoft 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.

  2. Detect with policies

    Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Inventory in Microsoft 365 to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.

  3. Review by owner and severity

    Use the Microsoft 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.

  4. 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 365 controls for Inventory

Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Microsoft 365 catalog on the Microsoft 365 connector page.

  • User

    All users registered in your tenant (internal, external)

  • Group

    All Entra ID groups in your Tenant (Security groups, Microsoft 365 groups)

  • Sensitivity Label

    All sensitivity labels configured in your tenant

  • Subscription

    All subscriptions with their licenses available in your tenant

  • Service Assignment

    Details when a service or app has been assigned to the user

  • Message Center Message

    All messages from the Microsoft 365 Message Center

  • App

    All Microsoft 365 apps included in your available subscriptions

  • User Activity

    Details when a Microsoft 365 service has been used the last time by a specific user

  • Deleted User

    All users that have been deleted from your tenant

  • Deleted Group

    All groups that have been deleted from your tenant

  • Rooms & Equipment

    All rooms and equipment configured in your tenant

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