The In-Flight Imperative: Feed the Graph Intelligence from Day 1
The Microsoft Graph is the most powerful content intelligence platform in the enterprise today—but it is strictly garbage-in, garbage-out. It does not fix bad data. It amplifies it.
The only viable path is tofeed the Graph correctly from Day 1. This means:
Enriching content with metadatabeforeit enters the Graph, so the Graph learns correct relationships immediately
Rationalizing permissions in-flight, so the Graph never learns incorrect access patterns
Applying retention and sensitivity labels during migration, so governance is embedded from the start
Eliminating ROT content before migration, so the Graph isn't polluted with obsolete noise
Extracting and injecting context (industry taxonomy, institutional knowledge, regulatory mappings), so Copilot has the intelligence it needs to generate accurate responses
This is the Core Principle of the Post-Migration Economy:
Migration is not logistics—it is the single greatest opportunity you will ever have to structure your enterprise knowledge.
Miss this window, and you lock your organization out of the AI revolution.
💡 What This Means Practically
Organizations that embrace the Post-Migration Economy approach - treat migration as a data transformation event, not a file transfer.
They invest in discovery, classification, metadata enrichment, and governance design before and during migration.
The result: content that is AI-ready, compliant, and valuable from Day 1—and a Graph that becomes smarter over time instead of more chaotic.
Why Post-Migration Remediation Projects Fail 90% of the Time
