Deploy, Secure, and Govern Copilot
The readiness report is green, and the next ticket is waiting. It can be tempting to switch Copilot on for everyone. Green confirms licensing readiness. Safety and approval still need their own evidence. Because Copilot can answer from content each person already opens, years of loose sharing may suddenly be reachable through one ordinary question.
These four lessons take you from "should we turn it on?" to a rollout decision a reviewer can follow line by line. You'll prepare the tenant, deal with oversharing, test data controls, investigate Copilot activity, and govern agent identities, access, and spending.
Reports, counts, and saved policies all belong in the evidence record. Evidence that a control is enforced comes from testing, and a rollout still needs an authorized decision. You'll keep findings separate from decisions, temporary containment separate from permanent repair, and configuration separate from observed results. AB-900 tests the same administrative discipline, so this work also supports your certification preparation.
What you'll walk away with
- Reconcile readiness evidence into a go/no-go rollout call you can defend
- Remediate SharePoint oversharing and validate the resulting Copilot data boundary
- Configure and test the Copilot DLP location alongside its sensitivity-label controls
- Investigate Copilot activity with audit, eDiscovery, and Zero Trust discipline
- Govern agent identity, access, spend, and analytics without overclaiming their value
- 01Tenant Readiness and RolloutReadiness means reconciling licenses, channels, and reports into a chain of evidence that has to agree before you flip Copilot on. Run the rollout through the Copilot Control System and close it with a go/no-go call that names its own gaps.14 min
- 02Oversharing, Labels, and Data ProtectionCopilot answers from what people can already open, so loose sharing becomes one question away. Find, decide, contain, permanently fix, and verify, then add labels and the Copilot DLP location as a tested guardrail.15 min
- 03Audit, Compliance, and Zero TrustRead Copilot audit records for exactly what they support, remove data without guessing the purge contract, remember that disabling memory doesn't delete it, and test access with a positive control.16 min
- 04Agent Governance, Analytics, and BillingAgents are users too. Separate the five decisions that govern an agent's access, know its identity, keep the two billing units apart, and reconcile analytics before you compare: usage is never proof of value.16 min
Live Copilot training for your team
For companies, we deliver the academy material live and build the sessions around your team's own data, tools, and day-to-day work.