Category: Intranet

  • From Valo Intranet to OOTB SharePoint Online: What now?

    From Valo Intranet to OOTB SharePoint Online: What now?

    Intro As organizations increasingly embrace digital transformation, the impending deprecation of Valo Intranet—scheduled for summer 2025—presents a critical opportunity for businesses to reassess their intranet solutions. With Valo no longer receiving updates, migrating to SharePoint Intranet is not just advisable; it’s essential for maintaining operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The Case for Migration Currently, many organizations…

  • Distributing page and news templates in SharePoint Online

    Distributing page and news templates in SharePoint Online

    According to Copilot, in SharePoint Online, well-designed page and news templates play a crucial role in enhancing collaboration and communication. These templates ensure consistent branding, efficient content creation, and structured layouts. Authors can focus on their message without worrying about formatting, resulting in a seamless user experience across devices. Additionally, templates facilitate targeted content delivery, version control, and SEO…

  • Pretty little FAQ

    Pretty little FAQ

    Many of my clients have the need for an FAQ on their intranet. The traditional way is still the way: using lists. But let’s make this more user friendly. As a sort of “UI for the back end” I always add the list as a tab in Microsoft Teams, using the Microsoft Lists app. This…

  • Making the Image column in a SharePoint more useful [to me]

    Making the Image column in a SharePoint more useful [to me]

    Say you want to build a “call-to-action” type functionality with Audience Targeting to your SharePoint intranet utilizing PnP Modern Search – maybe something like this: A natural place to store the text and publishing values in a list. And since we now have the Image column, it seems like a natural place to place an…

  • Pzl.Ext.Styler: A Stylish SharePoint Framework Extension

    Pzl.Ext.Styler: A Stylish SharePoint Framework Extension

    I desperately needed a safer solution for styling SharePoint than using the great Modern Script Editor. After failing to find an open source solution, I made my own. ChatGPT gives us the following sales pitch: Are you looking for a way to add some style to your SharePoint site? Look no further than Pzl.Ext.Styler! This free…

  • Related news in SharePoint

    Related news in SharePoint

    Quite a few customers have asked me for a solution for automatic linking of related articles on their modern SharePoint intranet. I’ve drummed together a solution using PnP Modern Search and Term store. This solution requires that each news article (or page) is tagged with a single metadata column. 2. The search query: 3. Create…