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How Rencore Governance scans your tenant, scan limits, throttling and scan errors.

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Getting started 1

Guides 7

Concepts 4

Reference 5

  • Reference › Scanning & throttling
    Continuous scan

    Rencore Governance scans your Microsoft 365 tenant in the background, with a scan interval per object type, so there is no fixed update schedule.

  • Reference › Scanning & throttling
    Partial scanning

    Partial scanning updates the Rencore Governance inventory batch by batch while a scan runs, instead of waiting for the whole tenant to finish.

  • Reference
    Scanning & throttling

    How Rencore Governance scans your tenant and manages throttling limits imposed by Microsoft 365.

  • Reference › Scanning & throttling
    Throttling by Microsoft 365

    What Microsoft 365 throttling is, why Microsoft limits API requests, and how it slows down or delays Rencore Governance scans.

  • Reference › Scanning & throttling
    Understanding scan buckets and parallel scanning

    How Rencore Governance groups connectors into scan buckets that run in parallel, to keep scans fast and stay within Microsoft API throttling limits.

FAQ 4

Glossary 8

  • Glossary
    Microsoft Graph

    Microsoft Graph is the Microsoft API that gives access to the data of the Microsoft 365 services. Rencore Governance reads most of your tenant through it, with…

  • Glossary
    Partial scanning

    Partial scanning is the Rencore Governance scanning engine that updates the inventory while a scan is still running. Inventory totals, policy results and…

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    Scan

    A scan is how Rencore Governance reads metadata from a connected tenant into the inventory. Scanning is continuous, and there is no fixed time when all data is…

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    Scan bucket

    A scan bucket is a group of connectors that never scan at the same time because they share the same Microsoft APIs. Connectors from different buckets scan in…

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    Scan error

    A scan error means Rencore Governance could not read part of your tenant during a scan job. Some objects may then be missing from the inventory or out of date.

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    Scan interval

    A scan interval is how often Rencore Governance aims to scan one object type, such as daily or weekly. The interval is a target, not a guarantee.

  • Glossary
    Sensitivity label

    A sensitivity label is a Microsoft Purview classification, such as Confidential or Internal, that an organization applies to content and to containers such as…

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    Throttling

    Throttling is how Microsoft 365 limits the requests an application or user can send in a period of time. Rencore Governance pauses scanning when it is…