MC876287 - Microsoft Viva Connections: Manage your organization's brand in the new Brand center

We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your sites and pages.

Our new SharePoint brand center will create a centralized branding management application that will empower your brand managers or designated users to empower site owners to create and manage the brand assets needed to customize SharePoint and Viva Connections.  

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 374861.

When this will happen:

Public Preview: Available now. We began rolling out in early April 2024 and completed late June 2024.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early September 2024 and expect to complete by mid-September 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete by mid-October 2024.

How this will affect your organization:

The SharePoint Brand center allows you to manage your organization’s brand assets in a single location.

To enable the new Brand center, the global administrator will need to perform a set of steps in the Microsoft 365 admin center to create/activate the Brand center app. The Brand center app requires the use of public content delivery network (CDN).

The Brand center administrative experience will identify the site containing your organization’s current organization asset libraries (if used) and use this site as the basis for your Brand center. If you are not using the organization asset library feature, you will be prompted to create a new site to be identified as your Brand center. 

Once you enable the SharePoint Brand center for your organization, this will enable the custom fonts feature to be used within SharePoint and Viva Connections. 

To enable the SharePoint Brand center, the global administrator will need to perform a few steps in the Microsoft 365 admin center to create/activate the Brand center app. 

The steps required depend on your current tenant configuration.   

Option 1: Your tenant does not currently use the SharePoint Organization Assets feature.

For this scenario, the global administrator will need to perform the following steps to create the Brand center app.

1. In the admin center, go to Settings > Org settings. 
2. Select Brand center 
3. Choose site name for the Brand center site (suggested "Brand Guide"). 
4. Read and give consent to the use of public CDN in your tenant for the Brand center. 
5. Create the site and configure public CDN in your tenant. 
6. Add site owners to the Brand center site that you created and share the link to the site with those owners to unlock the Brand center app.   

Option 2: Your tenant uses the SharePoint Organization Assets feature with private CDN.

For this scenario, the global administrator will need to perform the following steps to create the Brand center app.

1. In the admin center, go to Settings > Org settings.
2. Select Brand center. 
3. The Brand center recognizes your existing organization assets site location and will use this as the location for the Brand center app. 
4. Read and give consent to the use of public CDN in your tenant for the Brand center. 
5. Activate the public CDN in your tenant. 
6. Copy and share the link to the Brand center site/app to your site owners to unlock the Brand center app. 

Option 3: Your tenant uses the SharePoint Organization Assets feature with public CDN. 

For this scenario, the global administrator will need to perform the following steps to create the Brand center app. 

1. In the admin center, go to Settings > Org settings. 
2. Select Brand center.
3. The Brand center recognizes your existing organization assets site location and will use this as the location for the Brand center app. 
4. Activate the Brand center app for your organization. 
5. Copy and share the link to the Brand center site/app to your site owners to unlock the Brand center app. 

Once you have completed the setup of your SharePoint Brand center, you can manage access to the Brand center app by customizing the site permissions of the Brand center site. Site owners will have access to the Brand center app.   

Copy and share the link to the Brand center site/app to your site owners to unlock your Brand asset management for your organization. 

This feature update is available by default. 

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.