SharePoint intranet blog

Practical guides on SharePoint intranets from the team behind Lightspeed365 - templates, web parts, adoption, governance and design, written by people who build these for a living.

What you'll find here

Most SharePoint intranet projects don't fall over on the technology. They fall over because nobody agreed who owned the content after launch, the go-live was treated as the finish line, or the homepage was built around the org chart rather than what people actually need on a Monday morning.

That's what this blog is about. Everything here comes from the team at Content Formula, who have been building SharePoint intranets since 2005 and now build them with Lightspeed365. Nothing we haven't had to make work in a real tenant.

Adoption and engagement - why people quietly stop using the intranet, what brings them back, and how to measure it properly. Start with our guide to SharePoint intranet adoption.

Governance - ownership models, site sprawl, review cycles, and keeping content accurate once the launch team has moved on to something else.

Design and templates - homepage layouts, how far you can push branding inside SharePoint, and pre-built pages you can adapt. Browse our SharePoint intranet templates.

Internal comms - news, audience targeting, campaign planning, and reaching people who don't sit at a desk.

AI and Copilot - what Copilot genuinely does on an intranet today, what it costs per seat, and where the marketing runs ahead of the product.

Information architecture and search - navigation, hub structure and metadata, and why search results are only ever as good as the structure underneath them.

If you're still deciding how to build, the complete SharePoint intranet guide covers all the options in one place.