Microsoft is redesigning SharePoint to focus more on AI

SharePoint is heavily used in enterprise environments, especially those entrenched in Microsoft's ecosystem, to manage content and files hosted on their private network, such as HR policies, websites, and other organizational data. Microsoft regularly invests time, effort, and money in the platform to add new features. Now, it has revealed another major update for SharePoint.

In a recent update to its public Microsoft 365 Roadmap, Microsoft has promised a "reimagined" SharePoint experience coming soon to organizations. It is designed to be simple and intuitive, while focusing on SharePoint's core functionality, which includes knowledge discovery, content publication, and building intranet solutions.

Although the Redmond tech giant is yet to reveal the redesign itself, it has highlighted that the revamp will serve as the foundation for encouraging and surfacing AI-assisted creations across SharePoint. Some of our avid readers will remember that the company made some headway in this regard back in August 2025, too, when it announced Sections with AI. To that end, SharePoint will soon offer an "updated information architecture and cohesive design language, delivering a clean and consistent experience across surfaces."

Keep in mind that SharePoint receives its fair share of UX updates throughout the year. Back in August 2025, Microsoft announced that it was finally modernizing SharePoint sites so customers can customize them to better align with their brand guidelines.

The upcoming update is scheduled to land in preview state next month for worldwide, GCC, GCC High and DoD customers. Provided that all goes well, we should expect general availability in April 2026.

Another relatively smaller update that is landing in the same timeframe is the ability for IT admins to configure custom names for OneDrive sync folders on tenant PCs. Right now, this folder gets hardcoded to OneDrive - . For customers with long organization names, this default name can take up too much space in file paths. As such, Microsoft will soon offer IT admins the ability to customize this name to be shorter, if needed.