Most audit findings against SharePoint and Power Platform are sequence failures, not architecture failures. Begin with a scoped, paid governance assessment that maps every finding to the exact control that failed, then orders the fixes into a remediation plan sequenced by risk and dependency. In the majority of remediations we have run, findings are closed by correcting permissions, tenant policies, and the operating model around them, not by rebuilding. i3 delivers this with senior, US-based engineers and leaves you with compliance-mapped documentation you can put in front of the auditor and the board.
Turn Microsoft sprawl into a governed, scalable platform
For the strategic case, what board-defensible Microsoft governance looks like and why it holds at scale, see our Enterprise Microsoft Governance and Compliance Solutions.
Who This Is For
This service is designed for:
- IT leaders at mid-to-large enterprises with expanding Microsoft environments, where governance hasn’t kept pace with adoption
- Organizations where SharePoint, Dataverse, or M365 adoption has outpaced governance, shadow apps, ungoverned automations, and unclear ownership are creating risk
- Teams dealing with sprawl: too many apps, too many sites, too many flows, and no clear picture of what exists or who owns it
- Regulated industries where audit readiness and defensibility are requirements, not aspirations
- Leaders who need to enable innovation while maintaining control, governance that supports business enablement, not governance that blocks everything
- Organizations preparing for compliance requirements that demand documented controls, evidence, and operating procedures
- IT teams that have tried governance before but found that policies weren’t enforced, documentation wasn’t maintained, or the approach was too heavy to sustain
This is not a fit if:
- You want to lock down platforms so tightly that nobody can build anything. We design governance that enables; if the goal is prevention rather than enablement, we’re not aligned.
- You want policies written without understanding your environment. We assess before we prescribe. Generic governance frameworks fail.
- You need a full-time governance team. We help you build governance capability; we don’t replace your team permanently.
- You’re not willing to enforce governance once established. Governance that isn’t enforced isn’t governance. If you’re not ready to act on what we build, implementation value is limited.
What We Assess and Remediate
Most governance findings surface on two or three Microsoft platforms, not uniformly across the tenant. We assess and remediate them as part of one engagement, not separate services. The areas below are that scope.
Microsoft Governance Risk Scan
Timeframe: 10 business days
Rapid assessment that shows exactly where you stand:
- Inventory your Microsoft environment: apps, flows, sites, environments, and integrations across M365 and Power Platform
- Score risk based on data sensitivity, ownership clarity, and technical health
- Identify security gaps, compliance exposure, and governance deficits
- Prioritize findings by risk severity and remediation effort
- Deliver a 90-day action plan with quick wins and foundational work
- Provide an executive summary for leadership communication
Power Platform Governance and CoE Blueprint
Timeframe: 3 weeks
We assess and remediate the Power Platform governance model:
- Environment strategy: development, test, production isolation; default environment cleanup; environment lifecycle management
- DLP policy model: connector classification, data boundary enforcement, exception process
- Maker governance: who can build what, where, with what approval and oversight
- ALM standards: solution management, deployment pipelines, version control, release process
- RACI and support model: ownership definition, escalation paths, operational responsibilities
- Center of Excellence starter kit configuration and customization for your context
SharePoint and M365 Governance Framework
We assess and remediate governance across SharePoint and Microsoft 365 collaboration platforms:
- Site provisioning governance: request process, templates, naming standards, lifecycle management
- Permission model standardization: inheritance patterns, access review, external sharing controls
- Content governance: retention alignment, sensitivity labeling integration, search scope management
- Teams governance: team creation policies, channel standards, guest access controls
- Governance documentation and stakeholder training
AI/LLM Governance Readiness
Timeframe: 2 weeks
We assess and remediate AI governance before adoption creates ungoverned risk:
- Policy framework for AI use cases: data boundaries, model access, approval workflows
- Prompt and response logging and retention architecture
- Human-in-the-loop requirements for high-risk decisions
- Risk assessment framework for evaluating new AI initiatives
- Operating procedures and governance roles for AI oversight
- Pilot guardrails for controlled experimentation
Governance Remediation and Cleanup
Address existing sprawl and governance gaps:
- App and flow inventory with ownership identification
- Cleanup of orphaned, unused, or duplicate assets
- Permission remediation for high-risk sites and content
- Environment consolidation and standardization
- Policy implementation for identified gaps
- Transition from an ungoverned to a governed state
Stabilize the Environment and Keep Delivery Moving
Sprawl doesn’t fix itself. We help you safely remediate what already exists, while putting guardrails in place so the problem doesn’t come back. Reduce risk, restore clarity, and move from chaos to a governed Microsoft environment without disrupting the business.
How We Work: From Assessment to Operating Model
Phase 1: Discovery and Inventory (Week 1)
Understand what exists before designing governance:
- Inventory your Microsoft environment: Power Platform apps and flows, SharePoint sites, Teams, and environments
- Identify ownership (where known) and ownership gaps (where unknown)
- Assess current governance state: what policies exist, what’s enforced, what’s documented
- Understand business context: how platforms are used, what’s critical, what’s experimental
Deliverable: Environment inventory with ownership mapping and governance baseline
Phase 2: Risk Assessment and Gap Analysis (Weeks 1-2)
Evaluate risk and identify governance priorities:
- Score assets by risk: data sensitivity, business criticality, technical health, ownership clarity
- Identify governance gaps against best practices and your compliance requirements
- Map findings to governance domains: access control, environment management, ALM, data protection
- Prioritize by risk severity and remediation feasibility
Deliverable: Risk assessment report with prioritized gap analysis
Phase 3: Governance Design (Weeks 2-3)
Design governance appropriate for your organization:
- Design environment strategy, DLP policies, and ALM standards
- Define the ownership model and RACI for governance responsibilities
- Create an exception process that enables rather than blocks
- Establish policy review cadence and continuous improvement approach
- Document governance framework aligned to your context, not a generic template
Deliverable: Governance framework documentation with policies, standards, and operating model
Phase 4: Technical Implementation (Weeks 3-6)
Configure governance controls:
- Implement DLP policies with appropriate scope and enforcement
- Configure environment settings and access controls
- Set up ALM pipelines and deployment processes
- Deploy the Center of Excellence toolkit components (if applicable)
- Establish monitoring dashboards and alerting
Deliverable: Implemented governance controls with configuration documentation
Phase 5: Operating Model and Enablement (Weeks 6-8)
Make governance operational and sustainable:
- Train governance stakeholders on roles, procedures, and tools
- Establish review cadence and assign accountability
- Create onboarding processes for new makers and new projects
- Document exception handling and escalation paths
- Validate the operating model through practical scenarios
Deliverable: Operational governance with a trained team and documented procedures
Phase 6: Handoff and Continuous Improvement
Transfer ownership with sustainability in mind:
- Complete knowledge transfer to internal governance owners
- Provide runbooks for common governance operations
- Establish metrics and health indicators for ongoing monitoring
- Define an improvement roadmap for governance maturity
Deliverable: Sustained governance capability with clear ownership
Why Choose i3solutions for Your Governance
- We understand Microsoft environments. i3solutions brings nearly three decades of experience delivering enterprise Microsoft platforms across regulated and complex environments. We are typically engaged when organizations need to establish governance that can withstand real operational pressure from audits, modernization programs, enterprise integrations, and long-term platform scale.
- We design for your context. Generic frameworks fail in real enterprise environments. We assess your organization, constraints, and operating realities before defining governance models that fit your size, industry, risk profile, and delivery culture.
- We implement, not just advise. We configure DLP policies, set up environments, build monitoring dashboards, and establish ALM pipelines. Governance documentation without implementation is fiction. We make governance operational.
- We balance control with enablement. The goal isn’t to lock everything down. It’s to create guardrails that enable teams to deliver faster because decisions are clear and patterns are established. Governance should accelerate delivery, not impede it.
- We build sustainable operating models. Governance that exists only during the project decays quickly. We establish ownership, review cadence, and procedures that keep governance alive after we leave. Your governance will persist because it’s designed to be maintained.
- Senior-led, US-based team. The consultants who assess your environment are the same senior practitioners who design and implement your governance. All work is performed by U.S.-based personnel experienced in enterprise and regulated Microsoft environments.
Engagement Options
Microsoft Governance Risk Scan
Timeframe: 10 business days
What you get:
- Environment inventory across Power Platform and M365
- Risk scoring and prioritized findings
- Gap analysis against governance best practices
- 90-day action plan with quick wins
- Executive summary for stakeholders
Best for: Organizations that need visibility into governance gaps and a prioritized path forward, before committing to comprehensive implementation.
Power Platform Governance Blueprint
Timeframe: 3 weeks
What you get:
- Environment strategy and DLP policy design
- Maker governance and approval workflows
- ALM standards and release process
- RACI and support model
- CoE toolkit configuration
- Implementation roadmap
Best for: Organizations scaling Power Platform who need a governance framework before sprawl becomes unmanageable.
SharePoint and M365 Governance Framework
Timeframe: 4-6 weeks
What you get:
- Site provisioning governance design
- Permission model standardization
- External sharing and guest access policies
- Teams governance framework
- Implementation and stakeholder training
Best for: Organizations with SharePoint and Teams sprawl needing consistent governance across collaboration platforms.
Comprehensive Governance Implementation
Timeframe: 8-12 weeks
What you get:
- Full assessment across Power Platform, Power Automate, and M365
- Governance framework design and documentation
- Technical implementation of controls
- Operating model with roles and procedures
- Training and knowledge transfer
- Ongoing support transition
Best for: Organizations ready for comprehensive governance transformation across their Microsoft environment.
AI/LLM Governance Readiness
Timeframe: 2 weeks
What you get:
- AI governance policy framework
- Data boundary and use case approval process
- Logging and audit architecture
- Risk assessment framework
- Pilot guardrails and operating procedures
Best for: Organizations adopting AI/LLM capabilities who need governance before ungoverned experimentation creates risk.
Ongoing Governance Advisory
Timeframe: Monthly retainer
What you get:
- Governance, health monitoring, and review
- Policy tuning and optimization
- Exception handling support
- New capability governance guidance
- Continuous improvement facilitation
Best for: Organizations with established governance who need ongoing expertise for optimization and evolution.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, in most cases. Audit findings against these platforms most often come down to misconfigured permissions, missing tenant policies, and a thin operating model, not the platform itself. The assessment confirms which findings are configuration and process fixes and which, if any, need re-architecture, so you commit to a rebuild only where the evidence requires it.
When your auditor or board asks for a remediation plan with named owners and sequenced corrective actions, this is what answers them: every audit finding mapped to the specific control that failed, the corrective action, and the owner, in one compliance-mapped plan sequenced by risk and dependency and costed. It is a paid, scoped engagement with defined deliverables.
Fixes are sequenced by risk and dependency and applied in stages, each with a defined rollback. We validate every change in a controlled scope before it reaches production users, so governance improves without an outage or a retraining event for the business.
That is what the operating model prevents. Alongside the technical fixes we hand over the cadence, roles, and policy guardrails that keep the environment in compliance, plus the documentation to prove it at the next audit. The goal is a state your own team can hold, not a dependency on us.
The same senior, US-based engineer who scopes your assessment leads the remediation. There is no handoff to junior or offshore staff and no gap between who diagnoses the findings and who is accountable for closing them. You are working with people who have run Microsoft governance remediations before, not a rotating bench.
Govern With Confidence
Your Microsoft environment will keep growing. The only question is whether governance scales with it, or is rebuilt after incidents, audits, or sprawl force your hand. Our IT governance consulting services can help you put enforceable guardrails and operating models in place that reduce risk and keep delivery moving.
