SharePoint branding governance via PowerShell
Tenant admins will soon manage SharePoint site branding centrally via PowerShell, enabling enforcement of enterprise themes, disabling custom branding per site, auditing changes, and applying themes during site creation. Theme management will centralize in the primary geo, with rollout from late 2025 to early 2026. Coming soon to SharePoint: Tenant admins will be able to centrally manage site branding using PowerShell. This update supports consistent branding across all SharePoint sites by enabling enforcement of enterprise themes, disabling custom branding on specific sites, and auditing branding changes. These capabilities help organizations maintain a unified brand experience and improve governance. This message is associated with Roadmap ID 526794. When this will happen: Targeted Release (Worldwide): Begins late November 2025, completes mid-December 2025 General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): Begins mid-January 2026, completes late January 2026 How this affects your organization: Who is affected: Tenant admins managing SharePoint Online branding and governance. What will happen: Admins can disable or enable custom site branding per site using PowerShell. When site branding is disabled, site managers lose access to Site branding page in Site Settings. Admins can apply enterprise themes (including multi-color themes) to specific sites via PowerShell. Branding changes made via PowerShell are tracked for audit and accountability. New site creation scripts can include branding settings to ensure consistency from launch. Admins can remove existing Brand Center via PowerShell. Theme management via PowerShell is transitioning to a centralized model: The primary geo will act as the central location for organization-wide theme creation and management. Satellite geos will be able to view and apply themes from the primary geo using Get-SPOTheme and Set-SPOWebTheme cmdlets. Themes previously created in satellite geos will remain available, but creating new themes in satellite geos will no longer be supported. Here’s what’s new: Consistent branding enforcement: Admins can disable or enable custom branding per site. When disabled, site managers lose access to Site branding page in Site Settings. Automated theme application: Apply approved enterprise themes (including multi-color themes) to specific sites using PowerShell. Audit and transparency: All branding changes made via PowerShell are tracked, enabling visibility into who made updates. […]
The post SharePoint branding governance via PowerShell appeared first on M365 Admin.
Published on:
Learn moreRelated posts
Microsoft Clipchamp: Updates to the EnableSensitivityLabelForVideoFiles PowerShell setting
The EnableSensitivityLabelForVideoFiles PowerShell setting in SharePoint Online will expand to include Microsoft Clipchamp project files (.cli...
SharePoint: The Next Generation of File & Folder Sharing
Microsoft 365 introduces a single “hero link” for file and folder sharing, simplifying access control and allowing link updates wi...
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Updates to Copilot Tuning and transition to Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft 365 Copilot tuning via Agent Builder templates will pause to transition to Microsoft Copilot Studio, introducing a skill-based archi...
Copilot Analytics Labs under Resources section
Copilot Analytics Labs is a self-service hub launching worldwide in August 2026, offering templates, code, prompts, and guidance to help analy...
Simplified access to Copilot Chat on the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app
Access to Copilot Chat on the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app will be simplified by removing restrictions from the Intune policy and “A...
Microsoft OneNote: Retirement of Loop components in OneNote for the web
Microsoft is retiring Loop components in OneNote for the web by mid-September 2026. Users can no longer insert Loop components there, but exis...
Agent Builder capabilities update
Agent Builder updates will enable default capabilities for new agents, similar to Microsoft 365 Copilot, with customizable options. The knowle...
Frontier =COPILOT function in Excel will no longer be available
The =COPILOT function in Excel will be retired on September 14, 2026. Users can continue AI-assisted tasks via the Copilot side pane. No admin...
Plan for Change: Intune moving to support iOS/iPadOS 18 and higher later this year
Microsoft Intune will require iOS/iPadOS 18 or higher after Apple releases iOS/iPadOS 27 later this year. Organizations should check device co...
Windows Office Hours: August 20, 2026
If you are an IT admin with questions about managing and updating Windows, we want to help. Every third Thursday of the month, we host a live ...