For years, clients have asked me the same question: „Should we build our intranet on SharePoint, or on Viva Connections?” Microsoft just answered it — they are the same thing.

Starting this month, the Viva Connections app in Teams becomes the SharePoint app in Teams, with general availability rolling out through June 2026. It looks like a rename. It isn’t. It puts the entire employee experience under one roof — and it matters for any company that wants an intranet people actually open.

Setting up your intranet now happens directly from the SharePoint admin center — fewer steps, fewer moving parts. Two new web parts arrive for the home site: Resources for key links and tools, Announcements for company-wide updates. There is a new customization experience for both desktop and mobile. And, most important for anyone already running the system: your existing branding, app name and permissions stay exactly as they are. Nothing to reconfigure.

Until now, many employees were never quite sure where company content actually lived — in SharePoint? in Viva Connections? in Teams? That confusion has a real cost: time lost searching for documents, the same questions asked again and again, an intranet nobody uses because nobody is sure what it is.

One place, one name fixes exactly that. Fewer „where do I find that document?” moments, better adoption, less wasted time. For a business owner, that means people working — not people searching.

Companies with a well-designed home site win immediately — they get new capabilities on top of a foundation that already works. Companies running a half-built intranet nobody opens now have the perfect reason to fix it: the platform is finally pointing in one direction, and what you invest today won’t be wasted tomorrow.

The rename isn’t what makes the difference. What’s behind it does: a clear structure, organized content, workflows people actually use.

We have been building on SharePoint since 2003, and this is exactly the foundation behind Apollo 365: your intranet, documents and operations living where people already work, in Microsoft 365. No parallel system, no „one more app” to learn.

Microsoft’s move confirms the direction we have followed for years — the intranet isn’t an isolated IT project, it is the company’s daily workspace.

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