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Important changes to legacy management features in ShareGate Protect

Please read this if you're looking for a missing feature in ShareGate Protect

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As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance ShareGate Protect, we retired the legacy management features on August 29, 2025. This transition aims to provide a more powerful, flexible, and intelligent governance experience tailored to the evolving needs of Microsoft 365 administrators.

Some features remain and have been moved elsewhere in ShareGate Protect; others will be temporarily unavailable and reinstated later this year, while a few were removed permanently.

Here's a quick overview of the changes:

Feature availability after August 29

Remaining

Features that remain available.

Temporarily unavailable

Features that will be reintroduced later this year.

Removed

Features that have been deprecated.

Most reports & admin reviews.

External Sharing.

Remediation actions to manage workspace privacy settings, membership, and sharing details.*

Access and restore archived content.**

Inactive & Orphaned groups reports.

Policies.

End-user reviews.

Archive inactive groups.

Provisioning.

Teams app.

Digest summaries.

*Remediation actions, such as changing the privacy setting or membership of a workspace, can be found through the Oversharing tab of the Governance risk assessment. When you click on one of the key points, like Public groups, you can click on the three dots icon for any workspace to make changes.

**To find archived content, Select Archive in the sidebar menu in ShareGate Protect.

Changes in detail since August 29

Reports and reviews

You can still access review and report features through a new Governance Assessment, including:

  • External sharing

  • Orphaned workspaces

  • Inactive workspaces

The Governance Assessment also includes these new reports:

  • Internal sharing

  • Sensitivity labels

  • Tenant configuration

  • And more

Policies

Inactivity and external sharing review policies have been unavailable temporarily since August 29.

An improved policy system will be introduced later this year.

Archive

Group archiving is temporarily paused. You can still view and restore previously archived groups.

New archival capabilities will be introduced as soon as possible.

Provisioning and the Teams app

Provisioning and the Teams end-user app are no longer available.

Sites already provisioned with ShareGate Protect will remain.

Tip: You can use ShareGate Migrate’s site copy feature to build new sites from another site, or try Microsoft’s open-source provisioning scripts.

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