What exactly is Jint SharePoint?
Jint SharePoint is a native SharePoint extension built by Jint for SharePoint Online. It installs an experience layer on top of the sites you already have: components (web parts), a persistent navigation bar, contribution tools and a management console. No site to rebuild, no migration. You keep SharePoint, you gain a modern intranet. More than 60 features are available, activated from the SharePoint web part catalog or from the Jint Configurator.
Behind the product is Jint, formerly Mozzaik365: eight years of Microsoft 365 expertise, an add-in listed on AppSource and Azure Marketplace, 300+ customers and over one million employees using our solutions every day. The Jinters work from Paris and Montreal and ship improvements every few weeks. That is why this article is alive: we refresh it every quarter to reflect what actually gets released.
Why add a layer to SharePoint at all? Because the problem is no longer storage. It is attention. According to Microsoft's Work Trend Index published in June 2025, an employee is interrupted every two minutes during core hours, 275 times a day, and receives on average 117 emails and 153 Teams messages a day (Microsoft WorkLab, 2025). On the engagement side, Gallup's State of the Global Workplace 2026 report finds that only 20% of employees worldwide are engaged, and 12% in Europe (Gallup, 2026). An intranet that fails to capture attention has no chance. An intranet that captures it at the right moment, with the right information, has every chance.
Historically, Jint SharePoint features answered three needs: better internal communication, easier collaboration across departments, and accessible knowledge. Two more have joined them: reaching frontline teams who have no desk, and measuring adoption with data rather than impressions.
What changed at Jint SharePoint in 2026
Here, in one list, are the features released or expanded since the previous version of this article. Each one is detailed below.
- Jint Newsletter Studio: internal newsletters designed and sent from SharePoint, with a custom sender domain since June 2026.
- New Unified Experience: a navigation bar that replaces SharePoint's native app bar, with an alert banner, a custom footer and built-in search.
- Configurator: one console to activate, configure and measure your whole Jint Digital Workplace.
- Contribution Center: guided page and news creation from templates, with an optional AI assistant.
- New Focus: the visual block that spotlights one piece of information, with a call-to-action button and Power Apps opening.
- Jint Mobile App: generic or white-label app, about twenty widgets, adoption analytics.
- Metrics: a new version tracking active users and component adoption.
- My Subscriptions: a news feed each employee composes for themselves.
- Jint AI: a conversational assistant in the intranet sidebar.
The new features to discover
Jint Newsletter Studio: the internal newsletter without leaving SharePoint
How many hours does your communications team spend copying SharePoint news into Outlook? Jint Newsletter Studio removes that step. The drag-and-drop editor assembles sections, columns, text, images, buttons and Entra ID profile cards. The News component pulls your SharePoint news directly: you pick, it lays out. A global font and a theme color keep every send on brand, including in the most temperamental versions of Outlook.
Targeting relies on what you already have: Microsoft 365 groups and the distribution lists in your directory. You schedule the send, test it in your own inbox, duplicate a campaign that worked. Once the newsletter is out, the dashboard shows deliverability, open rate, click rate and clicks per link, news item by news item. The error report lists every address that was not reached, and why.
Two points matter to IT leaders. First, volume: the platform has been tested delivering to 100,000 recipients in roughly two hours (Jint support center, getting started guide, updated 2026). Second, the sender: since June 2026 you can send from your own domain, for example newsletter@yourcompany.com, with DKIM signing and a validity check before every send (customize the sender domain). Your anti-phishing filters and your DMARC policy stay respected. Newsletter Studio is a premium feature that runs on your SharePoint environment: ask your Customer Success Manager to activate it.
To go further, read our guide to the SharePoint newsletter.
The new Unified Experience: one bar, your whole intranet
The Unified Experience is the persistent sidebar that follows each employee across all your SharePoint sites. It replaces the native app bar and is organized in four sections: Navigate (a selection of sites, segmented by audience), Stay informed (the latest news and events, pulled from the whole tenant or from one site collection), Applications (your business tools, with favorites and categories) and the + button that opens the Contribution Center.
The 2026 version adds what customers asked for: an alert message visible in every tab with a "Learn more" link, a custom footer with links, logos, categories and audiences (footer guide, March 2026), search directly in the bar, and a theme in your brand colors. Every navigation link can be reserved for a Microsoft modern audience: department, country, language, job family. Sales sees its tools, HR sees theirs, nobody drowns.
Around the bar, the Unified Experience also ships page copy between sites, an interactive page table of contents, event registration management and Viva Engage comments on pages (introduction to the Unified Experience). It activates site by site, in a few minutes, from the Configurator.
The Configurator: the control room of your intranet
The Jint Configurator (config.jint.io) is the single administration console for the solution. No more settings scattered across pages, sites and support tickets: an administrator activates the Unified Experience on a site, sets navigation, applications, the alert and the footer, reads Metrics, builds the mobile app, manages the Site Engine and grants access to the Contribution Center.
Rights are granular: Global Administrator, Unified Experience Administrator, Mobile App Administrator, or a read-only Metrics viewer. Entra ID consent is granted once for the whole tenant (Configurator user access, January 2026). The result: internal communications steers its intranet without opening a ticket for every setting, and IT keeps control of permissions.
The Contribution Center: a page or a news post in a few clicks
Creating a news post in SharePoint is still tedious for an occasional contributor. The Contribution Center fixes that. From the + button in the Unified Experience, the contributor picks News or Page, selects a publication template (a complete source page with its components, properties and save location), types a title, and the page is generated as a draft in seconds. Templates are shared across the whole organization, not just one site.
Two options change the game. AI-assisted creation, when enabled in your plan, writes a first draft from a few prompts. Multichannel publishing then pushes the post to Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, email or a mobile push notification without leaving the interface (Contribution Center overview). Access is managed through Microsoft 365 groups or security groups, from the Configurator. This is the component that turns a non-technical communicator into an autonomous contributor.
The new Focus: the component that captures attention
How do you get a critical message read when everyone receives 117 emails a day? You put it in the spotlight. Focus is a visual block that combines a background image, a title, a text, a tag and a call-to-action button, placed anywhere on your SharePoint intranet, not only on the home page. A leadership announcement, a security alert, an event invitation, an HR campaign: Focus adapts to the height you choose and is set up in a few clicks.
Among the recent changes, the redirect link: the button can open a standard URL or a Power Apps application directly, in the same tab, a new tab or a window (Focus web part guide, updated January 2026). In Jint Teams & Web and in the mobile app, its widget version adds three layouts (card, tile, image with caption) and a frosted-glass effect over the background image. Same component, same intent, whatever the screen.
Jint Mobile App: your intranet, right in your pocket
Field crews, production teams, store staff and care workers do not open SharePoint on a computer. They open their phone. Jint Mobile App brings the intranet to them, with about twenty widgets: news and news hub, employee directory, organization chart, my files, my meetings, my tasks, my emails, events, anniversaries, newcomers, quick links, my apps, search, Focus, social media wall, file explorer. The administrator composes up to five tabs from the Configurator, applies the company logo and color, publishes, and gets a universal download link and a QR code to post in locker rooms or the cafeteria.
Two deployment modes exist. The generic app "Jint", already live on the App Store and Google Play, is customized from the inside and goes live in about two weeks. The white-label app carries your name, your icon and your splash screen; Jint publishes it for you as a private distribution (private distribution on Google Play and the App Store, April 2026), installable by employees themselves (BYOD) or pushed through your MDM to a fleet of company phones. Allow one month minimum for store review. In both cases, the cost is included in your license.
What makes the difference in daily use: targeted push notifications that bring employees back to the information at the right moment, and the analytics dashboard (unique users per week, most viewed tabs and widgets) to adjust content. Our launch and adoption guide even includes the announcement email template. To scope your project, read how to create a mobile-accessible intranet.
Metrics: measure adoption, not just views
An intranet without data is an intranet you defend with impressions. The new version of Metrics, released in June 2026, opens from the Configurator and offers two dashboards (Metrics feature overview). Your Digital Workplace tracks unique users, daily active users, their split between active, regular and occasional, the most visited sites and pages, the most read articles. Feature usage measures the real adoption of every Jint SharePoint component deployed: how many instances, on how many sites, which ones get opened.
Data can be filtered by period and by site, and read by a dedicated role (Metrics viewer) without granting admin rights. To pick your indicators, lean on our article about SharePoint analytics tools for internal communication.
My Subscriptions: the news feed each employee chooses
The News component shows what the administrator decides. My Subscriptions, released in June 2026, flips the logic: employees pick the topics (term store terms) they subscribe to, and only see the news that interests them (My Subscriptions component). The administrator sets the frame: the source (all sites, a list of sites, the current site), the subscriptions on offer, default subscriptions for people who have not chosen yet, and whether to show news not yet translated into the page language.
Four layouts are available (Hero, Top Story, vertical tiles, horizontal tiles), from 1 to 30 news items, sorting by date or by custom property, optional KQL query. It is the component to favor when editorial output is rich and interests vary: a multi-business group, a multi-country organization, a network of branches.
Jint AI: an assistant in the intranet sidebar
Jint AI, formerly Jint Genius, is a conversational assistant that opens from your intranet sidebar. No installation, no account: if the entry shows up, it is ready. It writes and rewrites an internal announcement, translates a message, summarizes a PDF attached to the conversation, takes dictation through the microphone and can search the web with cited sources (Discover Jint AI, July 2026).
Two versions coexist. In Freemium, the assistant has no access to your organization's content. In a Standard deployment, the AI infrastructure runs inside your Microsoft tenant and the assistant answers from your SharePoint documents, citing its sources and respecting everyone's access rights: it only sees what the user is already allowed to see. This is where the order of priorities matters. An AI agent is only as good as the information it reads. A structured, up-to-date, governed intranet is the foundation that lets AI answer correctly. Jint SharePoint builds that foundation; Jint AI stands on it. It does not replace Microsoft 365 Copilot: it lives in the intranet, within reach of every employee, including those without a Copilot license.
The foundation: the features that run your intranets
New features do not replace the core. These components have powered hundreds of Jint intranets for years, and every one of them has evolved.
The Search Center
Finding information remains the first service an intranet must deliver. The Jint Search Center runs on Microsoft Search, the unified engine of Microsoft 365, and is made of three independent components you place freely: the search bar, the results (with sorting and vertical navigation) and the filters on your custom properties. Everything is configured without code: scope, content types, verticals, KQL queries, connectors to your tools outside Microsoft 365 (Search Center guide). A company-wide search engine, a filterable document library, a project knowledge base: it is the same component, configured differently.
The Employee Directory and the Organization Chart
Who does what? Who knows what? The Employee Directory answers both. It draws on Entra ID and SharePoint profiles, filters by name, department, location and skill, and displays as a full directory, a team, newcomers or an expertise search. The Organization Chart completes the picture: an interactive tree built on the manager-report link in Entra ID, with zoom, direct contact through Teams or email, and PDF export. For a newcomer, that is the first week saved. For HR, it is an employer branding lever that requires no extra data entry.
The Social Media Wall
The Social Media Wall gathers your LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube posts inside the intranet and lets everyone share them in a few clicks. It is the building block of an employee advocacy strategy: employees become the brand's first relays, and external communication feeds internal culture. The component also exists as a mobile widget, so frontline teams can see and share from their phone.
The Personal Dashboard with Jint Teams & Web
Nobody should open five tools to start their day. The Personal Dashboard gathers on a single page each employee's news, meetings, tasks, emails, recent files and favorite applications. At Jint, this experience is delivered by Jint Teams & Web, the platform that lives in Microsoft Teams or in a browser, with personal dashboards and company dashboards built from widgets. It is designed for organizations that want a plug-and-play intranet, and it combines with Jint SharePoint when the document foundation is already in place.
The Site Engine
Do you create the same kind of SharePoint site ten times a year? The Site Engine (formerly Site Factory) extracts an existing site as a template and applies it at will: libraries and their settings, pages, documents, lists, taxonomy, search settings, group permissions, logo and header (Site Engine guide). A project site, a branch site, a subsidiary site: you industrialize creation while keeping a consistent structure. Access is granted from the Configurator.
Events
A seminar, a kick-off, an onboarding day: the Events module centralizes the calendar, search by date or category, one-click registration, waiting lists and the participant list. The Unified Experience's event manager gives organizers control over registrations and participant contact. On mobile, the My Events widget reminds everyone of what is coming.
Viva Engage communities
Viva Engage, the Microsoft 365 enterprise social network (formerly Yammer), integrates with the Jint intranet in three ways: the community launcher to join communities of interest and expertise, Viva Engage comments on SharePoint pages, and direct publishing from the Contribution Center. A SharePoint news post becomes a conversation, with reactions, comments and polls, without duplicating content.
Which feature for which need?
One component often serves several goals. This table gives the most common reading, the one we recommend when a customer gets started.
Security and governance: what Jint sees, and what it does not
The question comes up in every project, and it is a fair one. The answer fits in one sentence: Jint carries no sensitive data; your pages, news and documents stay in your Microsoft 365 tenant. Components read information through the Microsoft Graph and SharePoint APIs, with almost exclusively delegated permissions: the application acts on behalf of the signed-in user and can never do more than that user (Jint permissions: scope, security and approval, September 2026). An employee with read-only access to a site keeps read-only access with Jint SharePoint. An employee who cannot publish will not publish through the Contribution Center.
The same principle applies to the mobile app, which displays information directly from Microsoft 365 through the Microsoft Graph APIs, and to Jint AI in Standard deployment, whose infrastructure runs in your tenant and respects your access rights. The telemetry we collect to improve the service is anonymized and aggregated. The full details are on our security and sovereignty page and in our comparison native SharePoint or SharePoint + Jint.
Where to start?
Already a Jint customer? Most of these features can be activated without a project. Three steps: open the Configurator and check your roles; activate the Unified Experience on your priority sites, then the Contribution Center and Metrics; ask your Customer Success Manager to enable the premium features (Newsletter Studio, Jint AI, mobile app) according to your plan. The Jint support center documents every component, with prerequisites and the permissions to approve.
Discovering Jint? Start by framing the need. Which of the five needs in the table above? Which SharePoint sites already exist? Which teams have no desk? A well-built intranet specification keeps you from choosing features before you have chosen goals. Our customer stories show combinations that work, from a group of 200,000 employees to an organization of a few hundred people.
What now?
Jint SharePoint is no longer just a box of web parts. It is a complete SharePoint extension: a bar that unifies navigation, a center for contributing, a studio for sending newsletters, an app for frontline teams, metrics for steering and an AI assistant that stands on a well-organized intranet. All of it on your SharePoint, in your tenant, with your permissions. We will update this article next quarter. Until then, the best way to see these features is in a demo, on your own use cases.
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