Microsoft has switched on special search features in Office 365 designed to help IT administrators keep tabs on employees’ spreadsheets, a task becoming more difficult and more important in enterprises.

The new capabilities are aimed at Office 365 customers who are having a hard time manually maintaining a comprehensive and up-to-date inventory of critical spreadsheets used for sensitive business processes.

By porting functions from the Office 2013 Discovery and Risk Assessment on premises server to the Office 365 cloud search engine, Microsoft expects to automate Excel “spreadsheet management” tasks, including identifying and categorizing important ones.

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