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SharePoint gear icon changes
MicrosoftMahendran D Hi. I'm the engineering manager for the common O365 suite header and wanted to try to address your concerns.
I'll start with the good news - the suite header respects tenant-wide theming as set by the tenant administrator. You can set up your color scheme there and it will be consistent across SharePoint and most other O365 web properties. Tenant admins also have the option to restrict individual's access to custom themes, which will make the theming panel you see above shrink down quite a bit (we always offer a high-contrast option for users). You can find the options for both of these things in the O365/M365 Admin Center.
The bad news is that the new suite header does not, today, respect SharePoint-specific themes as set in "Change the Look". We're opting for suite-wide consistency over site-specific customizations here. We of course want your feedback on this. We have seen several customers raise concerns with it already.
Now I'll provide a little more context for the changes, in case it helps.
The recent changes to the suite header do two things. First, they move the underlying code to a modern, forward-looking codebase. This brings with it a much easier servicing model, better performance, and makes it cheaper and safer for us to introduce new suite-wide capabilities to Office365. But that's all "under-the-hood" stuff.
The second and more immediately impactful change is our attempt to bring the entire O365 suite in line to the same (or very similar) header experience. Prior to these rollouts, different O365 apps had considerable differences in their implementation and display of header features, SharePoint being the biggest outlier. With these changes, we're attempting to find the common ground between O365 suite-wide consistency, user personalization, and app-specific needs. We may not hit the mark perfectly each time, though, so it is important to us that you keep providing feedback. We do listen and your comments do inform future decision making.
Thank you.
Thanks Andy Tischaefer
The very serious problem for us is;
we are maintaining two different colors.
Brand color for company wide intranet and other color for team sites. Everyone got used to it.
I see that we cannot create a new custom theme boxes. Users need to select from those pre-defined ones which do not have our brand color.
Only way is; Tenant admin can set the custom color but it will be applied to all sites which we dont want.
We really need to have a feature that allows SharePoint Admins to set custom theme for site collection (either by UI or PowerShell) at least.
Thank you for considering user feedback.