check before: 2025-12-17
Product:
Microsoft 365 admin center, SharePoint
Platform:
Online, World tenant
Status:
Change type:
New feature, Admin impact
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Details:
Summary:
Site attestation policy is now generally available, enabling SharePoint admins to require site owners to periodically verify site ownership, membership, and sharing settings. This helps reduce compliance risks and prevent oversharing. The feature is off by default and requires admin setup with configurable enforcement actions.
Details:
[Introduction]
Empower your organization with proactive governance. The new site attestation policy ensures that site owners regularly validate critical details like ownership, membership, and sharing settings. By automating periodic reviews and enforcement actions, this policy helps reduce compliance risks, prevent oversharing, and maintain a secure, well-governed SharePoint Online experience.
[When this will happen:]
This feature is now generally available to all customers.
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Created:
2025-12-18
updated:
2025-12-18
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summary for non-techies**
The site attestation policy for SharePoint is a feature that allows administrators to ensure site owners regularly verify site details, such as ownership and access, to maintain security and organization, with options to limit access or archive sites if checks are not completed.
Direct effects for Operations**
Increased Compliance Risks
Without proper preparation, site owners may overlook the need to verify site ownership and sharing settings, leading to potential compliance violations and data oversharing.
- roles: SharePoint Administrators, Site Owners
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/request-site-attestations
User Experience Disruption
If the site attestation policy is enabled without prior communication, site owners may be caught off guard by unexpected prompts, leading to confusion and frustration.
- roles: Site Owners, End Users
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/request-site-attestations
Operational Inefficiencies
Failure to configure enforcement actions properly may result in unaddressed non-compliance, leading to operational inefficiencies and potential data management issues.
- roles: SharePoint Administrators, Compliance Officers
- references: https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/request-site-attestations
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