PERMISSIONS CONTROL

Know who has access to what in M365. Then fix it.

Was it Colonel Mustard with the Everyone link? Get all the clues in one view across SharePoint, Teams, Microsoft 365 Groups, and OneDrive, inside and outside your organisation. See who has access to any site, library, or file, then change it at scale.
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You don’t own the content. You get the tickets.

Years of content created by many people. You can’t easily tell whether everyone should have the access they have, and fixing it at scale means writing scripts. Site owners lose control of what’s going on. Your admin center shows one console and one moment in time. What you need is the whole picture.
ShareGate knows who has access

Ask. Answer. Fix.

The creators of the original Permission Matrix Report scaled the experience to raise the bar of governance. Every time ShareGate shows you who has access, it also tells you what you can do about it.
Permissions reporting

Cast a wide net over your investigation

Get the answers you need and a plan to fix issues from two powerful reports.
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ShareGate partners

Every engagement 
starts with access

Before any migration, Copilot rollout, or compliance audit, the first question is the same. ShareGate answers it, then carries the work through to the fix.

The report that replaces the scoping call

Skip two hours of asking the client what they think is in their tenant and show them what’s actually there. The Permission Matrix Report turns a vague conversation about risk into a concrete list of problems to fix, and a natural scope of work.

A tool for every kind of engagement

Migration, Copilot rollout, compliance audit. All need the same answer, and the same tool carries the work from assessment to correction.

A billable assessment before the client says yes

Run a permissions report on a prospect’s tenant before you win the deal. Walk in with a deliverable to charge for and a clear list of fixes to propose.
ShareGate partners

Part of the work you already do

Restructuring isn’t a standalone engagement, and we won’t pretend it is. It’s what you reach for when a client needs content reorganized.

See how ShareGate helps partners

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Real customers, real results

“Partnering with ShareGate has been a good decision for Adepteq—they’ve never let us down. ShareGate helps us stand out in the UK market, and without them, we’d feel a big impact on our renewal revenue stream.”

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Ian Loman
Microsoft Cloud Expert and Sales Director

“ShareGate helped us cut two-year migration projects down to nine months for clients with complex environments and petabytes of data.”

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Maggi Honda
Senior Principal Engineer at CDW 

“For me, the biggest benefit of using ShareGate is that it frees up IT time for other value-added activities. I don’t have to babysit my environment because the governance guardrails are in place.”

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Constanze Pretzler
Senior Inhouse Consultant for Digital Collaboration, STIHL

“I love the reporting tool, and I’ll continue using it even after the migrations. It presents a simple overview of your environments, and it’s great for governance and providing easy-to-read reports to the business users.”

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Amy Senécal Côté
SharePoint Administrator

Frequently asked questions

What does ShareGate's Permissions matrix report show?

ShareGate's Permissions matrix report shows who can reach a SharePoint site or OneDrive, and how they got in. Pick the sites you want and see every permission at every level, one row per user per permission. Groups open up to show the people inside, however deeply they're nested. Site collection admins show with Full control, because item-level permissions don't apply to them. And with the right consent, you remove unwanted access from the same report.

What's the difference between ShareGate's Permissions matrix, User access and Group access reports?

Where you start. The Permissions matrix report starts from the content: who can reach this site or OneDrive? The User access report starts from a person: what can they reach, and how? The Group access report starts from a group: what can it reach, before you change it? All three read the same tenant crawl, refreshed about every 24 hours, and none replaces the others.

How do I see who has access to a SharePoint site without PowerShell?

Open the Permissions matrix report in ShareGate and pick the site. No PowerShell, no hopping between admin centers. You don't even need to be a site collection admin: whoever runs your ShareGate workspace decides who can open the report. You see who has access, inside and outside your organization, and how each person got in. Spot something that shouldn't be there? Remove it right where you found it.

Can ShareGate show everything one user can access in SharePoint, for example before offboarding?

Yes. ShareGate's User access report starts from the person. Pick one user or several, with no limit, and see every site collection they can reach, plus how they got in: directly, through a group or nested group, a sharing link, ownership or broken inheritance. ShareGate's User details page shows what they shared. Run it before an account is deleted, because the report covers active users only. To take access away, remove it from the Permissions matrix report.

How do I see what a Microsoft 365 group, security group or Everyone Except External Users can access?

Use ShareGate's Group access report. Pick one group or several, with no limit: Microsoft 365 groups, security groups, or built-in groups like Everyone and Everyone Except External Users. You see every site collection they can reach, the path behind each permission, and which group reaches each site. Pick Everyone Except External Users to see what anyone in your company can open, which is also what Microsoft 365 Copilot can answer from. Check what a group reaches before you change it.

Does ShareGate show external sharing and internal access in SharePoint together?

Yes. ShareGate shows them in one view. Guests, external sharing links, access open to the whole company and broken inheritance all show up together. Groups open up to show who's inside, so you see how each person got in, colleague or guest. One limit: for a 'people in your organization' link, you can't see who received it. To close exposure across the whole tenant rather than one site or person, use Oversharing.

Can I remove access directly from ShareGate's User access or Group access report?

Not yet. ShareGate's User access and Group access reports are read-only in this release, and removing access from them is on ShareGate's product roadmap. Today, you take the access off from the Permissions matrix report, right where it shows. Seeing what a group reaches doesn't change who's in it: group membership stays managed in Microsoft 365.

How current is the permissions data in ShareGate?

ShareGate's permissions data refreshes about every 24 hours. ShareGate reads a crawl of your tenant, and not all data refreshes at the same moment. Every report reads the same snapshot, so two reports opened an hour apart agree. When you first connect, sites appear as they're crawled, and the first pass over sharing links can take several weeks in a complex tenant. There are no alerts: open a report to see where things stand.

How can Microsoft partners use ShareGate's Permissions matrix report before winning a deal?

Partners use ShareGate's Permissions matrix report to prove the problem is real before the client commits. Before a migration, a Copilot rollout or an audit, every client needs to know who has access to what. The partner who shows them first wins the project. ShareGate connects with the client admin's approval, installs nothing, and stays read-only until the client grants a second approval.

Admins don’t sugarcoat. So these feel extra sweet.

Real words from the admins who run migrations and govern Microsoft 365 every day.

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5
 / 5
"The Permission reports speed up the process of finding who has access to what and where."
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Small Business
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4.5
 / 5
"The Permissions Matrix report in particular is a must-have to understand and plan for the migration of permissions and it can run this on huge sites in a matter of seconds."
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Mid-Market
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5
 / 5
"actionable reporting, which helps admins quickly identify and resolve issues without needing to take extensive manual steps or write PowerShell scripts to automate the fixes"
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Enterprise
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4.5
 / 5
"a robust set of reports that makes auditing and security management a lower-friction process overall"
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Mid-Market
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5
 / 5
"Being able to see who has access to what has been invaluable."
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Permissions under control. We got this.

One view. Every site, library, and file. Easy fixes.