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Off SharePoint Server Before July 2026, and Ready for Copilot

SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 reach end of support on 14 July 2026. If you are still on-premise, the move to SharePoint Online or Subscription Edition needs to be underway now — enterprise migrations typically run six to eighteen months. The second live problem is permissions: Copilot surfaces documents whose sharing was always too broad, and everyone can suddenly see it.

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What we deliver

Intranets & portals

Communication sites people actually use, with search and structure that works.

Document management

Metadata, retention, versioning and permissions applied consistently.

Migration

On-premise SharePoint or file shares moved to SharePoint Online without losing history.

Power Platform

Power Automate flows and Power Apps for approvals, requests and light internal tools.

Teams integration

Bringing documents and processes into where people already spend the day.

Governance

Site provisioning, permissions models and lifecycle rules that prevent sprawl.

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The July 2026 deadline

Where projects overrun is almost never the content move — it is the customisation audit. Full-trust solutions, InfoPath forms and SharePoint Designer workflows have no direct cloud equivalent and have to be re-engineered onto Power Apps and Power Automate.

Content inventory and what to archive rather than migrateCustomisation audit — InfoPath, SPD workflows, full-trust codePermission mapping before, not after, the moveCutover plan with delta sync and a rollbackSharePoint Server Subscription Edition where data residency genuinely requires it
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Copilot readiness and governance

Copilot does not create oversharing; it makes existing oversharing visible and searchable. Most organisations need remediation before enabling it, not after.

Oversharing audit and permission remediationSensitivity labels and Microsoft Purview DLPExternal sharing policy and guest access reviewSite provisioning, lifecycle and archival automationGovernance for Copilot Studio agents built on SharePoint data
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An honest caveat

Lift-and-shift reproduces the mess somewhere more expensive. The value is in the content architecture and permissions work, and both are routinely underestimated. Equally: the Power Platform is excellent for internal workflow and poor as a foundation for a customer-facing product — when an internal tool outgrows it, the honest move is a purpose-built application, not more low-code on top.

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