One of these six SharePoint intranet designs has 21 links to outside systems on its home page, and it is the plainest of the group. It is also the one built the way long-lived intranets are built. Here is what to look for in each example, and what to copy.

Every site owner picks their own colors, and your intranet ends up looking like ten different companies. SharePoint Brand Center is the native fix: one place to set your organization's fonts and colors and apply them across every site without custom code. Here is what it does, and where it stops.

Several SharePoint and Microsoft 365 retirements have already hit in 2026, most of them quietly, and more land through 2027. External sharing links breaking, legacy customizations dying, on-prem servers going out of support. Here is every deadline in one place, with what changes and what to do before each one reaches your tenant.

By the end of this year, your tenant will have AI agents in it whether you planned for them or not. Some built in Teams, some in Copilot Studio, some dropped in by a vendor. Microsoft Agent 365 is the control plane that makes them governable, if you set the rules first.

Microsoft now gives you two different AI tools to tag SharePoint metadata, and they overlap enough to be confusing. The Knowledge Agent comes with your Copilot license. SharePoint Premium document AI is a separate tier. They solve different problems, and picking the wrong one wastes money or effort. Here is how to tell them apart.

Sometime in October, a vendor clicks a SharePoint link they have used for months and gets Access Denied. No warning to them, none to you. That is the SharePoint One-Time Passcode retirement landing, and if you share files externally, some of your links are on the list. Here is what breaks and what to do.

Your comms team pushes out a week of related news posts for a big rollout, and someone asks: did it work? SharePoint could tell you page views, not whether the campaign landed. Campaigns in SharePoint changes that, for the teams licensed to use it.