SharePoint Migration, Governance, and Microsoft 365 Consulting
I'm Billy Peralta, a SharePoint and Microsoft 365 consultant based in Vancouver, BC. I help organizations across Greater Vancouver and British Columbia move to Microsoft 365, clean up permissions and stale content, prepare for Copilot, and build SPFx and Power Platform solutions that internal teams can maintain.
All engagements run remotely, on Pacific time, for organizations across BC and the rest of Canada; see SharePoint consulting in Vancouver.
- 16+ years
- on SharePoint, from on-premises farms to Microsoft 365
- 100 TB+
- of content assessed and migrated
- 6 certifications
- including Cybersecurity Architect and Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert
- Public sector
- and enterprise tenants in education, energy, health, and government
How I help
Most SharePoint problems are permission, ownership, and structure problems wearing a technical costume. This is where the work goes.
All services-
Migrate SharePoint Server or file shares to Microsoft 365
Discovery, permissions review, migration waves, validation, and adoption, so the move is a clean-up and not a copy.
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Clean up permissions and oversharing
Find broken inheritance, direct grants, stale guests, and ownerless sites, then fix them in an order that will not break people's work.
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Get SharePoint ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot surfaces whatever people can already reach. Review access, stale content, and ownership before it does.
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Put governance in place that admins can keep running
Site lifecycle, ownership, external sharing, retention, and provisioning rules sized for the team that will own them.
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Build SPFx and Power Platform solutions your team can maintain
Web parts, extensions, dashboards, Power Apps, and flows with source control, ALM, and documentation from day one.
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Modernize the intranet
Hub structure, navigation, page templates, and content ownership that make the intranet findable again.
Free SharePoint planning resource
Planning a SharePoint migration or governance cleanup?
Use the SharePoint Migration & Governance Readiness Checklist to review migration scope, ROT cleanup, permissions, Teams and OneDrive usage, retention, Copilot readiness, and post-migration support before moving content at scale.
- Identify migration and governance gaps before they become production issues
- Review permissions, external sharing, retention, and content ownership
- Score readiness across eight practical SharePoint / Microsoft 365 areas
SharePoint Migration & Governance Readiness Checklist
- Migration scope & content inventory
- ROT cleanup & information quality
- Permissions, security & external sharing
- Information architecture
- Teams / OneDrive / SharePoint strategy
- Governance, lifecycle & retention
- Copilot readiness & content exposure
- Migration execution, adoption & support
8-area readiness scorecard · PDF
“Always enjoyed working with Billy. Very helpful and always has a clear answer. Has a great grasp of all software products we use.”
Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect
- Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
- Certified ScrumMaster
Open-source tools
Tools I built for the same problems clients bring me. The code is public so you can see how I work.
- SharePoint Access Review Prioritizer
PowerShell that turns governance exports into a ranked, explainable access-review backlog.
- SPFx Permission Visualizer
See broken inheritance, direct assignments, and external users across a site before cleanup or migration.
- SPFx External Sharing Risk Scanner
A web part that scores external sharing and inheritance risk inside SharePoint Online.
Recent posts
Working notes on migration, governance, Copilot readiness, and SharePoint development.
- Migration Manager vs SharePoint Migration Tool: Which to Use
Compare Migration Manager vs SharePoint Migration Tool for file share and SharePoint Server migrations, then validate your choice with a focused pilot.
- Shared Mailboxes Are Not Document Systems: Governance and Automation Patterns for Microsoft 365 and SharePoint
Shared mailboxes should be intake channels, not archives. How to govern and automate their document workflows with SharePoint, Power Automate, and Azure.
- Power Platform Governance for SharePoint Online: Environments, DLP, and Ownership That Won’t Break in 2 Years
Practical Power Platform governance for SharePoint Online: environment design, DLP, ownership, and monitoring so your apps and flows don’t break in 2 years.
- How I Audit SharePoint Permissions: Native Tools vs PowerShell vs SPO Scout
A practical look at when I use SharePoint native tools, PowerShell, and SPO Scout for permission audits, troubleshooting, access reviews, and reporting.
Have a SharePoint or Microsoft 365 challenge?
Send a short note about your environment. I usually reply within 24 to 48 business hours with the next practical step: an assessment, a roadmap, or a straight answer.