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Restricted Content Discovery for Copilot

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Restricted Content Discovery for Copilot

How SharePoint Restricted Content Discovery hides sensitive sites from Microsoft 365 Copilot without breaking access, how it works with labels, and its limits.

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What does Restricted Content Discovery do?

It marks a SharePoint site so its content is excluded from tenant-wide search and Copilot grounding, while users who navigate to the site or open a link still get normal access. It hides oversharing from Copilot without…

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Is Restricted Content Discovery a permissions fix?

No. It hides content from discovery; users who could open a file before can still open it if they find it another way. It is a fast mitigation while permissions are fixed, not a substitute for fixing them.

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Which licence do I need for Restricted Content Discovery?

SharePoint Advanced Management, which is included with Microsoft 365 Copilot licences and also sold as an add-on.

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