MC1098935 - Microsoft SharePoint: Header and Footer enhancements
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Microsoft SharePoint is updating site headers and footers for a more modern, customizable experience, starting in July 2025. Enhancements include new design options for site owners and a cleaner view mode for site viewers. No admin action is required, but notifying users and updating documentation is recommended.
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We’re updating the Microsoft SharePoint site header and footer to deliver a more modern, customizable, and brand-aligned experience. This visual enhancement introduces new options for customizing the header, footer, and navigation links—empowering site owners to better reflect their organization’s identity and create more engaging, connected SharePoint sites.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 489225.
When this will happen:
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early July 2025 and expect to complete by mid-July 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out late July 2025 and expect to complete by mid-August 2025.
General Availability (GCC High, DoD): We will start rolling out mid-August 2025 and expect to complete by late August 2025.
How this will affect your organization:
These updates will enhance the visual consistency and usability of SharePoint sites, making it easier to deliver visually compelling, on-brand experiences across your organization.
For site viewers:
- The command bar will be hidden in View mode for a cleaner, more immersive experience.
- Teaching tips will help users locate previously available command bar buttons in the header.
For site owners:
New design flexibility will include:
- Set an image as the header or footer background and customize the overlay color.
- Change fonts for the site title, navigation links, footer name, and footer links using a set of predefined font families.
- Adjust footer alignment, including support for left alignment.
This change will be on by default.
After this rollout, site admins can customize the header background under the new Design tab in the Header configuration panel:
Site viewers will have a cleaner, more immersive experience with the command bar hidden in View mode.
What you need to do to prepare:
This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.
Before rollout, we will update this post with new documentation.