Want to make your SharePoint intranet look like something entirely new? You’re not alone. One of the top requests we’ve heard is, “Make it look like it wasn’t SharePoint!” In this webinar, we’ll show you how to transform your intranet with refreshing page designs and content that will leave your users guessing. With the latest tools and features, you can now create a beautiful, user-friendly intranet experience that stands out.
🎤 Speaker: Marijn Somers – Microsoft365 Consultant
Transform your SharePoint intranet like never before! Learn:
- How to refresh your SharePoint pages with dynamic and engaging content
- Tips and tricks to make your intranet visually stunning
- The latest features that help you design a unique intranet experience
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The presentation covers upcoming features and enhancements in Microsoft SharePoint, focusing on improved customization, collaboration tools, and integration with AI-powered tools like Copilot. The speaker shares insights about these advancements, provides timelines for rollout, and discusses implications for users and organizations.
Key Highlights
- Customization and Design Enhancements
- Brand Center for Customization:
- Ability to define themes, fonts, and styles on a per-site basis.
- Accessible via “Change the Look” settings for streamlined customization.
- Flexible Layouts:
- Introducing a 12-column grid for web part arrangements.
- Drag-and-drop features to adjust width, height, and placement dynamically.
- Enables more creative and professional page designs.
- Design Ideas Integration:
- Inspired by PowerPoint’s Design Ideas feature.
- Offers automated suggestions to improve page aesthetics.
- Initial focus on text and images, expanding later to buttons and other elements.
- Title Block Adjustments:
- New functionality to hide or remove title sections for a cleaner look.
- Simplifies design, especially for homepages.
- Custom Section Backgrounds:
- Add unique images or colors to section backgrounds.
- Improves visual appeal and highlights specific sections.
- Brand Center for Customization:
- Content Creation Features
- Smart Media Suggestions:
- When creating a page, SharePoint suggests media relevant to the title.
- Enhances ease of use and speeds up page creation.
- Web Part Heading Levels:
- Control heading levels for web part titles (e.g., larger or smaller fonts).
- Improves page structure and accessibility.
- Smart Media Suggestions:
- Collaboration and Productivity Improvements
- Page Co-Authoring:
- Multiple users can collaborate on a page simultaneously, similar to Word or PowerPoint.
- Resolves issues with pages being locked due to one user’s checkout.
- Includes commenting functionality for feedback and suggestions.
- AI-Driven Copilot Integration:
- Copilot as a chatbot for both content creation and user inquiries.
- Helps create pages or entire sites based on natural language prompts.
- Assists users by answering questions directly from available resources (e.g., policies, menus).
- Raises the question of whether intranets are still necessary when AI can deliver answers.
- Page Co-Authoring:
- Rollout Timeline
- Available Now:
- Image shapes and custom section backgrounds.
- Multiple options for section design.
- Rolling Out by Summer:
- Brand Center for fonts and themes.
- Page co-authoring and custom web part heading levels.
- Title removal from pages via the user interface (UI).
- Coming Later This Year:
- Design Ideas and flexible layouts.
- Brand Center integration for Teams.
- Available Now:
- Implications of Copilot on Intranets
- Copilot could redefine intranets by answering user queries directly.
- Example: Asking Copilot about a pet policy or lunch menu returns precise information from existing documents.
- Raises questions about the value of visual page design if AI becomes the primary interface.
- Final Thoughts
- Flexible layouts are a game-changer, enabling more creative page designs.
- The ability to co-author and comment on pages will enhance collaboration.
- Copilot’s potential to replace traditional intranets is thought-provoking.
- Speaker shares contact details and promotes a Dutch YouTube channel for SharePoint tips.
