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What's new in Intranet Builder 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4

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  • Release 2.4.0
2 min read · Intranet Builder 2.4.0

The product guide was written for release 2.1. This article covers what was added in the three releases since. Intranet Builder 2.4 has 47 modules, 39 web parts in six packages, 9 extensions and 5 site templates.

2.4 — the design studio

The design studio sets the look of every web part and extension. It is in both Setup Center and Configuration Manager, so you can choose the design before installation and it is carried in the installation file.

The design studio in Configuration Manager, with starting designs, surface options and a live preview
Design studio. Pick a starting design, then adjust the surface, title style, corners, shadow and colours with a live preview.
  • Ten starting designs: Modern, Vivid, Soft, Glass, Classic, Corporate, Playful and Editorial, plus Midnight and Aurora in dark.
  • Web part surface, title style, corner radius, shadow and a second colour for gradients. If a colour is hard to read on a background, a darker shade is used.
  • Light or dark themes, background patterns, a pointer effect, title size and font.
  • Mega menu designs: lists, cards, tiles, a feature panel and dark.
An intranet home page rendered with one of the 2.4 designs
A 2.4 design. The same web parts in a different starting design; nothing on the page has to be rebuilt.

2.3 — search pages, new web parts and redesigned templates

New 2.3 web parts: news slideshow, call to action, quote and contact table
New in 2.3. News slideshow, call to action, quote and contact-table web parts on a redesigned template.
  • Search pages built on PnP Modern Search.
  • Redesigned site templates for the home, department, HR and knowledge sites.
  • New web parts: news slideshow, call to action, quote and contact table.
  • Header and footer designs, with the option to keep SharePoint's own header and footer on a site.

2.2 — install without typing commands

Setup Center guiding an installation step by step
Guided setup. Setup Center walks through the installation; a typical first install takes about 30 minutes.
  • Guided setup that installs the intranet without typing PowerShell commands.
  • Setup.cmd installs PowerShell 7 and PnP.PowerShell when they are missing.
  • The provisioning engine is unchanged: it still plans each change before making it, can be re-run safely, and checks the site afterwards.
Upgrading from 2.1Updates only add things: new columns, views and settings are added, and nothing is removed or renamed. New modules are opt-in for each site. The steps in the Deployment article still apply.
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