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SharePoint governance updates tighten content discovery for Copilot and Search

If you've been following recent SharePoint, Search, and Copilot announcements, you may have noticed a pattern. Microsoft has released several related updates over the past few weeks that all point in the same direction: stronger governance of how content is discovered, surfaced, and accessed across Microsoft 365. Taken together, these changes strengthen the relationship between SharePoint permissions, Microsoft Search, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, helping organizations reduce oversharing risks while maintaining a better user experience. Modernizing content discovery controls with Restricted Content Discovery Organizations using Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) should start planning for its retirement. RSS has historically been used to limit how SharePoint content appears in Microsoft Search and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft is retiring RSS in favor of Restricted Content Discovery (RCD), which provides more granular controls and better aligns with modern Microsoft 365 governance ...

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