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Govern Microsoft 365 Copilot with Purview DSPM: Stop Oversharing Before You Deploy
Microsoft 365 Copilot governance means controlling what Copilot can surface, not just who can use it. Copilot does not break your permissions — it exposes them, turning a decade of overshared SharePoint sites into plain-English answers. This guide walks the actual Purview and SharePoint controls that fix it, in the order a security team should apply them: DSPM for AI to find overshared data, sensitivity labels plus DLP to stop Copilot processing it, and SharePoint Restricted Content Discovery to keep high-risk sites out of Copilot answers. Licence and GA/preview status validated against Microsoft Learn, August 2026.
Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5 vs E7: A Practitioner's Guide to Choosing the Right License in 2026
Microsoft 365 E3 covers core productivity and baseline security, E5 adds the advanced security, compliance and voice stack, and the new E7 'Frontier Suite' bundles E5 with Copilot, Agent 365 and the Entra Suite for AI-driven work. This guide breaks down what each tier includes, what it costs, and how to decide which one your organisation actually needs.