2025 Origami Connect Enhancements for SharePoint Intranets
In 2025, Origami Connect added new SharePoint intranet web parts, expanded personalization, improved navigation, enhanced calendars, added reporting capabilities, and shipped many customer-requested improvements across the Origami web part library.
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Employee Experience
New and improved web parts helped employees find people, links, documents, events, policies, FAQs, videos, and updates faster inside SharePoint.
Modern Intranet Design
Origami added richer styling options for headings, banners, quick links, tabs, carousels, calendars, folders, navigation, KPIs, and SharePoint page layouts.
Personalization & Targeting
Updates expanded audience targeting, personal quick links, group-based visibility, filtered events, categorized documents, and more flexible page experiences.
Analytics & Compliance
Origami introduced analytics, mandatory read tracking, Power BI and Excel-powered KPIs, and reporting tools for intranet owners.
Key 2025 Releases
News Center Metadata Categories
News Center gained support for categorizing news based on metadata tags from the SharePoint Site Pages library, giving intranet teams more control over how news is grouped and displayed.
Released January 2025
Finder and Search Banner Source Improvements
Finder and Search Banner were updated to use Document Library URLs and View URLs, making document source configuration clearer and more flexible for SharePoint administrators.
Released January 2025
LinkedIn Feed Web Part
Origami added a LinkedIn Feed web part so organizations can show company LinkedIn updates directly on SharePoint intranet pages.
Released January 2025
Interactive Video Web Part
A new Interactive Video web part added support for hover-based autoplay, Stream, YouTube, custom thumbnails, looping, resizing, and flexible video click behavior.
Released February 2025
Anniversaries Live from Microsoft 365 and Entra ID
Origami introduced an automatic anniversaries, new hires, and birthdays experience that can pull employee data from Microsoft 365, Azure AD, Entra ID, and user profiles.
Released March 2025
Sidebar Navigation App Customizer
Sidebar Navigation was added to help employees search and browse pages or curated links from a compact navigation experience inside SharePoint.
Released March 2025
Reusable Style Templates
Multiple Origami web parts gained the ability to save customized fonts, colors, and styles as templates, helping teams apply consistent branding faster across new SharePoint pages.
Released April 2025
Process and Timeline Completion Tracking
Process and Timeline added group-based tab visibility and the ability for users to complete steps, making it useful for guided processes, onboarding, training, and compliance workflows.
Released April 2025
Personal Quick Links
Quick Links Plus added personal links, allowing employees to add shortcuts that are visible only to them while keeping shared organizational links intact.
Released May 2025
KPI Data from Power BI and Excel
Origami KPI expanded to support values from Power BI and Excel files stored in SharePoint, making it easier to manage metrics without manually editing page content.
Released June–July 2025
Mandatory Read Tracker
Origami added a Mandatory Read Tracker web part for policy acknowledgement, read confirmations, reporting, and audit support across HR, Legal, IT, and compliance content.
Released June 2025
Calendar Location Tags and Event Display Enhancements
Calendar improvements added better event display behavior, location tags, month-based viewing, audience targeting, and support for pulling events from SharePoint views.
Released January–September 2025
People Directory Entra ID Improvements
People Directory added support for pulling mobile numbers from Entra ID and hiding disabled accounts, helping employee directories stay cleaner and more accurate.
Released September 2025
New Sample Intranet Pages
Origami added packaged sample pages including homepage, learning and development, news center, onboarding, department, benefits, careers, payroll, and knowledge base layouts.
Released September 2025
Origami Analytics Early Access
Origami Analytics introduced reports for site visits by department, page visits and trends, unique users, engagement patterns, and Origami web part usage.
Released October 2025
Top Navigation and Breadcrumb Enhancements
Top Navigation received right-alignment support, item spacing controls, breadcrumb trails, font boldness controls, and breadcrumb color options for more flexible intranet navigation.
Released October–December 2025
Immersive Carousel with Expanding Links
Carousel with Expanding Links gained immersive mode, allowing SharePoint pages to create a more modern website-like homepage experience where the carousel image blends with navigation.
Released December 2025
Explore the full 2025 archive
These highlights summarize the major Origami Connect updates shipped in 2025. For the complete month-by-month archive, view the original community release notes.
View Jan–Aug 2025 Release Notes View Sep–Dec 2025 Release Notes