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Intranet Internship Project
You don't want to build an Intranet out of OneDrive--OneDrive is essentially a personal site, so it'd have to be tied to a particular user, which becomes a problem if that person leaves or would require creating a dummy account to handle the ownership. Even then, you wouldn't get any functionality aside from storage, so it'd basically be like asking your users to dive through a small web server.
As for getting SharePoint, you'll need to buy up in your organization--here are the plans you'll need for access.
As for building the Intranet itself, I've experienced no issue without Communication sites--we started from a Team site, gutted most everything, turned on Modern Experience, enabled publishing, and added pieces to accommodate informational pages (Site Pages), training materials (document library), manuals/forms/policies (document library). We keep everything in a single site and stuck to out of the box components, and that's worked for an organization of 1,100. Your departments make sense to have sites for, depending on what you want to do with them, but not really anything else.
I added some snapshots of our own intranet--hope it helps.
I feared that would be the case with OneDrive but wanted confirmation from more experienced users.
As for your intranet advice I think your approach and design is very good and something to consider for my organisation. Good to hear you did it with the out of the box features for a company with over 1000 employees because I have no coding experience.
Cheers,
Dan
One of the many benefits of SharePoint is the ability to provide very sophisticated solutions without requiring any code. The trick is to understand what all of the numerous features do and then combine them together to solve the business problems.
Here is a really good book on this topic, https://www.amazon.com/Essential-SharePoint-2013-Meaningful-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321884116/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8. It is focused on SP 2013 so it does not have all of the latest, greatest features in SPonline, but everything it covers is still applicable.
