> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.lsonline.fr/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Monthly SharePoint News Digest - May 2025 - URL: https://blog.lsonline.fr/2025/06/02/202505-msp-news/ - Published: 2025-06-02T02:53:21.000Z - Updated: 2026-01-27T17:26:13.000Z - Description: A monthly post about the Microsoft 365 collaboration tools to expose the new features and changes during the current month - Author: Laurent Sittler - Tags: SharePoint, Adoption, Getting Started, Governance, Microsoft 365, Monthly SharePoint News Digest, OneDrive, Modern Experience, Power Platform, SharePoint Online, Viva Engage **New month, new features for the Microsoft 365 Collaboration Tools πŸš€** ## πŸ—“οΈ Events around Microsoft 365 - [June 19th - Canadian Cloud Summit](https://www.communitydays.org/event/2025-06-19/canadian-cloud-summit-june-2025?ref=blog.lsonline.fr) ## πŸ’‘Trick & Tips How are you managing wide access to some of your SharePoint sites and OneDrive? Two words will illuminate your days: **Dynamic groups**. Thanks to the dynamic groups, you can, if you want, reproduce the Token Everyone Except external users: `(user.userPrincipalName -contains "contoso.com")` Thanks to the dynamic groups, you can regroup people quickly, for example: - per department - per country - per domain name - per job title - company name - and so much more... The last thing is, when you want to create a Viva Engage community or a Microsoft Teams team, behind the scenes, it is a Microsoft 365 group; this group can be "converted" to a dynamic group πŸ’ͺ. ## πŸ“’ Announcements - [Changes to the API access page in the SharePoint admin center](https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/api-access?wt.mc%5Fid=MVP%5F386670&ref=blog.lsonline.fr) - [eSignature for SharePoint supports Word Documents](https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/syntex/esignature-overview?wt.mc%5Fid=MVP%5F386670&ref=blog.lsonline.fr) - [SharePoint Alerts Retirement](https://support.microsoft.com/office/sharepoint-alerts-retirement-813a90c7-3ff1-47a9-8a2f-152f48b2486f?wt.mc%5Fid=MVP%5F386670&ref=blog.lsonline.fr) - Whiteboard URL transitioned [https://whiteboard.cloud.microsoft/](https://whiteboard.cloud.microsoft/?ref=blog.lsonline.fr) --- ## Favorite Feature of the Month **Multi-color SharePoint Theme** --- ## πŸ“° News SharePoint ### SharePoint Start Page Experience From the new navigation, select a **Recently edited** site. The main content is refreshed to be related to the selected site. You will be able to create page directly to the selected site. ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/image.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/image-2.png) Left navigation on the new SharePoint start page On the start page, from the list of pages, you have a useful Shortcut action menu with the following options: - **Open**: lets users view the selected page in canvas mode. - **Share**:lets users create a link to share the page with collaborators. - **Duplicate**: quick copy of the selected page. - **Manage access**: manage users' access. - **Delete**: moves the selected page to the recycle bin of the site ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/image-3.png) SharePoint Start Page - Action menu --- SharePoint ### Multi-color Theme Enabled by default, this feature introduces multi-color themes that support multiple color combinations in a theme. The theme colors will also show up in section backgrounds, the rich text editor (text web part) πŸ’ͺ How can you handle colors on your page? Select your section, and you will see a new tab named **Design**. *In my case, I used the Copilot logo colors.* ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-18.51.25.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-18.53.15.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-18.55.46.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-18.56.06.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-18.55.54.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-18.56.13.png) Multi-color SharePoint Theme SharePoint/OneDrive ### Control Enable OCR As an administrator, it is possible to enable OCR on OneDrive for specific users or all organization. Thanks to this feature, all documents can be retrieved from the search. > \[info\] Important: OCR is a pay-as-you-go feature. Turning on the OCR feature will incur cost for the organization. --- SharePoint/OneDrive ### Remove EEEU Token Are you using the **Everyone Except External Users** token to manage access for some SharePoint sites, libraries, etc? Microsoft will prevent the usage of this token for the following artefacts: - SharePoint Root site - The default document library in OneDrive's πŸ’‘ Look at the Trick & Tips of this month for more details about best practices --- SharePoint ### New Public CDN Currently, the SharePoint Online Content Delivery Network (CDN) URL is: `publiccdn.sharepointonline.com`. Microsoft will change this URL for Azure Front Door (AFD): `public-cdn.sharepointonline.com`. This change will take effect by the **end of July 2025**. --- SharePoint ### Additional Web Parts include Animation New feature release at the same time as the *Editorial* Web Part, the animation feature. This feature adds a depth effect when the page is loaded and the Web Part is visible. Currently, three Web Parts include this feature: - Editorial - Quick Links - People ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-01-at-22.56.33-1.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-01-at-22.56.38-1.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-01-at-22.56.44-1.png) Animation Web Part feature --- SharePoint **Preview Mode** You are a seasoned editor, and you want ensure that your page content match with the screen sizes, and mobile. It is really helpful to preview the content before publishing it and catch most of the display issues if they exist. ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-19.07.18.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-19.07.29.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-19.07.35.png) SharePoint Preview Page SharePoint ### Quick Steps Now, Microsoft has announced the end of the OOTB Alert feature on SharePoint; the provided alternative is Quick Steps. A couple of useful templates are available by default, and if this is not sufficient, you can execute your own flow ❀️ ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/image-4.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/image-5.png) SharePoint Quick Steps --- SharePoint ### New Library Template A new library template was added to the collection: - Resume repository No big news, but that can be helpful 😊 ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-01-at-22.30.09.jpg) SharePoint Resume Template Library --- Microsoft 365 ### New Home Page The new branding for the Microsoft 365 home page (https://m365.cloud.microsoft) is here: - No top bar anymore - Direct access to Copilot - and so much more... ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-18.20.33.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-18.20.41.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-18.20.47.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-18.20.52.png) ![](https://blog.lsonline.fr/content/images/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-03-at-18.21.11.png) Microsoft 365 Home Page Hoping this post will help you, see you next month... πŸš€