SharePoint adds a governance dashboard for site owners
Microsoft placed a Governance Reviews Dashboard into private preview this month. The tool pulls together pending checks on site inactivity, ownership confirmation and attestation for sites a person owns. It displays required actions, deadlines and enforcement status in one view. Site owners can complete the tasks directly in the dashboard rather than replying to separate emails. The feature is restricted to sites the viewer owns and remains unavailable to most tenants. No timeline was given for wider release.
Until now, site owners received scattered email alerts about governance reviews while managing hundreds of Teams and SharePoint sites created on demand. Deadlines slipped, ownership went unconfirmed and inactive sites accumulated because no single place existed to track or act on them. The new dashboard gathers those tasks, yet its private-preview status leaves the majority of mid-sized organisations still handling sprawl through manual lists and support tickets. Microsoft is signalling that lifecycle management matters, but smaller teams must continue cleaning up without the promised interface.
Analysis
Ignore the preview and act on what you already have. Open the SharePoint admin center today, export the list of sites with zero activity in the past 90 days, and send ownership attestation requests to the original creators before another abandoned site triggers a compliance review.
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