End Teams sprawl. Govern every workspace from creation to retirement.
Governed workspace creation with approval workflows, templates, and lifecycle management.
Overview
Microsoft provides a binary choice for workspace creation: fully open self-service that leads to sprawl, or fully restricted creation that creates bottlenecks and shadow IT. There is no native middle ground. Teams templates cannot include private or shared channels, cannot apply sensitivity labels, and changes never propagate to existing teams. Site scripts are limited to 300 actions and cannot provision pages or web parts.
Compass Provisioning Engine fills this gap with guided self-service workspace creation that includes approval workflows, metadata capture, content-rich templates, naming convention enforcement, and full lifecycle management from creation through archival and deletion. Built on the open-source PnP Provisioning Engine (MIT licensed, 10+ years of development), it leverages Power Apps for the request interface, SharePoint for tracking, Power Automate for approvals, and Azure Functions for provisioning execution.
Use Cases
- Governed Teams and SharePoint creation
- Project-based workspace lifecycle management
- Mergers and acquisitions workspace setup
- Department onboarding automation
Key Features
Technical Architecture
Deployed in your tenant71% of IT leaders report Copilot introduces additional security risks by surfacing overshared content from abandoned workspaces. Provisioning governance ensures every workspace is created with proper permissions and retired when no longer needed.
Ready to deploy Provisioning Engine?
Book a consultation and we will walk through your tenant to show exactly how this product maps to your requirements.