Intelligent Intranets
Keep employees informed and engaged by providing a shared place to securely view and collaborate on content, and to connect and communicate with colleagues. Build community and culture within your organization by bringing people together through events, networking opportunities, and strategic communication channels. Personalize, share, and manage organizational news and shared content to drive organizational efficiencies securely on any device.
New Hub Capabilities
Hub Permissions:
Enable you to centralize the management of access to associated sites
Associated Hubs:
Enable search and discovery experiences across hubs and makes it easier to curate navigation between them
Hub Analytics:
Provides rich, hub-wide usage insights spanning total visitors, page views, popular content and more
Audience Targeting:
On hub navigation allows targeting navigation items based on a persons Azure Active Directory groups, such as job role or office location
Updated Branding
- SharePoint mobile app co-branding so that you can easily add your organization’s branding which will be featured in the SharePoint Mobile app.
- SharePoint mobile app to support organization’s custom branding through logo image, app theme colors for top navigation bar, text and accent color etc. for a co-branded mobile Intranet app experience for employees.
- Additional site footer capabilities with a new extended layout option that supports background color choices and ability to organize a footer links.
- Additional header options including a new Shy header that provides you the ability to reduce the size of the site header, the ability to hide the site title, and the option to add a site logo thumbnail for your sites.
- Microsoft Fluent Design System which brings the fundamentals of principled design, innovation in technology, and customer needs together as one, and delivers simplicity and coherence through a shared, open design system across platforms.
- SharePoint Teal default theme converts the existing blue default theme to Teal to complete the transition to the new SharePoint brand colors on new and existing classic and modern communication and non-group connected team sites.
- Make any classic site, a modern communication site. Classic team sites that are not modern group connected or have the classic publishing feature enabled, can now get a communication site experience.
SharePoint Look Book
Look Book allows for any user to create beautiful, fast sites and pages that look great on any device or screen. Get inspired with these designs or add them to your tenant to start building your next stunning site with them.
Updates to Page, News, and Web Parts
- Image resizing which gives you the ability to adjust the sizes of images your add to your pages and news posts.
- Page difference visualization and version history for pages and news posts which enables content authors to visually see what changes have been made across different versions.
- News filtering across sites with managed metadata.
- Yammer conversations web part (v2) which gives people the ability to ask questions, mark and discover best answers, and compose with rich text and post praises. It’s also has improved performance and is updated with a new Yammer design that is rolling out.
- ‘My feed’ web part that intelligently brings together relevant documents, news, activities and other content that is personalized for you.
- New stock images feature which will provide several thousand high quality, high resolution images, royalty free for page and news authoring, with an inventory of images that will grow over time
How Can We Help?
Let our team help your organization move through the process of creating an intranet. We will get you familiar with common intranet planning and creation roles, design stages, and the intranet lifecycle. Our team will also show you how to align goals into priority scenarios that you can get started implementing quickly. Then, learn how to engage with viewers and maintain your intranet over time as the organization changes and scales.
Get Ready for Microsoft Viva
Once you have your Modern intranet going, take a look at what Microsoft Viva can do for your organization!