See connected workspaces
Distinguish Microsoft Teams-connected sites and compare their owners, sharing, activity, storage, and state.
Microsoft Teams governance
Govern Microsoft Teams workspaces through the content behind them.
Protect brings Teams-connected SharePoint workspaces into a governance view that combines ownership, sharing, permissions, activity, storage, and content standards.
Why Protect
Connect Teams collaboration to SharePoint governance.
Files used in Microsoft Teams are governed through their connected SharePoint sites. Protect helps administrators review those workspaces in context, apply approved standards, and keep access and content decisions visible across a large tenant.
Review content access
Inspect the people, groups, guests, and links that can reach underlying SharePoint content.
Apply content standards
Use metadata, naming, approval, storage, and versioning controls for governed collaboration.
Scale consistently
Deploy approved governance templates across projects and Teams workspaces in controlled waves.
How it works
A repeatable Teams workspace review
Inventory
Identify accessible Teams-connected workspaces and their accountable owners.
Prioritize
Use sharing, activity, storage, lock state, and ownership signals to focus the review.
Govern
Review permissions and apply the approved access, content, and storage controls.
Evidence
Verify the result and keep a clear export or exception record for the next review.
Frequently asked questions
Microsoft Teams governance questions
How are Microsoft Teams files governed?
Teams channel files are stored in connected SharePoint sites, so SharePoint permissions and content controls govern who can reach them.
Can Protect identify Teams-connected SharePoint sites?
Yes. The workspace overview includes group and Teams indicators alongside ownership, sharing, activity, storage, and state signals.
Can one governance template be reused across Teams workspaces?
Protect Pro supports reusable governance templates and controlled rollout across selected projects and Microsoft Teams-connected workspaces.