SharePoint Advanced Management: your new best friend for governing SharePoint

SharePoint Advanced Management started as a handful of reports. In 2026, it’s turning into something much bigger — a full governance suite with its own AI agent sitting on top. But is it enough to actually manage your SharePoint? Let’s find out.

Managing SharePoint at scale is hard: sprawl, oversharing, inactive sites, and now — AI readiness on top of all that. SAM promises to help, but it’s easy to get lost between reports, policies, and roles if you don’t know where to start.

In this session, I will walk you through SharePoint Advanced Management as a whole — what it actually covers, what it doesn’t, and how the pieces fit together.

In details:

– The five pillars of SAM — sprawl, oversharing, lifecycle, and the new kids: content relevance and content resilience

– Licensing — what’s included, what needs an add-on, and who needs the new SAM Administrator role

– Catalog Management — grouping your sites so reports, policies, and Copilot rollouts actually scale

– Meet the SharePoint Admin Agent — your governance chat interface (with guardrails against doing something stupid)

Not a magic wand, but with proper setup, SAM can save you from a lot of manual PowerShell and CSV exports

– Know what SAM covers and what it doesn’t

– What you already have within standard license, what needs an add-on, and who gets the SAM Administrator role

– Have a starting point for your own tenant: Catalog Management and the Admin Agent