SharePoint adds an admin agent that runs governance tasks through Copilot
Reviewed by Helen Jones
SharePoint Advanced Management now ships with a declarative agent that admins can reach from any Copilot surface. The agent can carry out tenant management actions that previously required the SharePoint admin center. Access needs SharePoint Advanced Management licensing and the right permissions. Microsoft positions the agent as a way to handle governance and site lifecycle work through plain language. The change extends AI control into operations that affect site ownership, sharing settings, and retention across the tenant.
Before this update, governance actions stayed inside dedicated admin centers where an experienced admin could see the full context and limits of each setting. Mistakes stayed visible and reversible because the interface forced deliberate navigation. Now the same actions can be triggered by natural language prompts anywhere Copilot runs. That lowers the barrier for execution but raises the chance that incomplete permission reviews or unclear site ownership will produce unintended changes at scale.
Analysis
Leave the agent disabled until you can prove every site has an active owner, a lifecycle policy, and reviewed external sharing. Once those three controls exist, test the agent on a single hub with narrow permissions before widening access.
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