Publishing standards for intranet content
A publishing standard is the rules authors work to when building a page, and SharePoint enforces almost none of it natively. This post covers branding, templates, approval, and accessibility as a r...
Ownership and access in SharePoint
Every SharePoint site has a Site Owners permission group, and it records rights rather than accountability. This post separates the two, and covers site creation, external sharing and seeing who ac...
How intranet governance decisions get made
Requests arrive on an intranet without a queue, and two answers to the same question eventually contradict each other. This post works through splitting decisions between IT, communications and the...
What SharePoint intranet governance actually means
Microsoft 365 gives you governance tools, not a governance system. This guide sets up the series and names the gap running through every post in it: the tools handle what can be automated, not who ...
Viva Connections is now “the SharePoint app”. What changed (and what didn't)
Viva Connections just became 'the SharePoint app' in Teams. We'd usually roll our eyes at another Microsoft rename — this time, we're actually on board. Here's what changed, what didn't, and why.
Transform your intranet home page with the Welcome app and a custom layout
Every SharePoint intranet home page starts from the same default template - the one that, no matter how many colors you swap in, still looks unmistakably like a SharePoint page. Welcome Custom Layo...