SharePoint Consultant Melbourne
SharePoint intranets succeed or fail on planning, governance, and rollout, not on the build itself.
Most SharePoint intranet projects don't fail because of the platform. They fail because nobody owned the brief, the governance model, or the change management. By the time the build is underway, the structural problems are baked in. Six months post-launch, the intranet is half-used, content is stale, and the project has been quietly written off internally.
I work with mid-market Australian businesses already in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to plan, scope, and oversee SharePoint intranet projects. Not as a developer or page builder. As the senior consultant who owns the brief, manages the delivery vendor, and makes sure the rollout actually lands.
01 Why this platform
Why I work with this platform
If you're already on Microsoft 365, building your intranet anywhere else is paying twice. SharePoint is included in your licence, integrates natively with Teams, OneDrive, Power Automate, and the rest of the Microsoft stack, and is the right tool for internal-facing platforms when the business is already committed to Microsoft.
The challenge is that SharePoint rewards structure and punishes shortcuts. Permissions, governance, taxonomy, content lifecycle. These need to be planned upfront. Skipping the planning means inheriting it as technical debt for years.
When SharePoint is the right choice
- Internal portals and intranets Employee-facing platforms for company news, policies, document libraries, and team workspaces.
- Microsoft-first organisations Businesses with Microsoft 365, Teams, and Azure AD already deployed. SharePoint extends what's there rather than introducing a platform to maintain alongside it.
- Document-heavy use cases Policy libraries, procedure manuals, contract repositories, anywhere version control, permissions, and metadata matter.
- Modern intranet projects Communication sites, hub sites, news distribution. Not the SharePoint Classic of ten years ago.
When SharePoint isn't the right choice
- Public-facing websites Use a proper CMS, WordPress or Craft CMS depending on the job.
- Custom workflow apps Power Automate handles a lot, but if the workflow is the product, build a proper application.
- Organisations not on Microsoft 365 If you're not already paying for the M365 stack, other intranet platforms make more sense.
What I deliver
- Discovery and scoping What the business actually needs the intranet to do, who uses it, how content lifecycle works.
- Information architecture Site structure, navigation, content taxonomy, search configuration.
- Permissions and governance Who owns what, who can edit what, and how that scales when teams change.
- Vendor selection and oversight I work with trusted SharePoint specialists for the build. I own the brief, the timeline, and the quality bar.
- Rollout planning Change management, training, and the first 90 days post-launch when most intranets quietly fail.
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Different language, same problem. A SharePoint intranet that needs senior thinking around it, not just another developer with seat time on the platform.
Pricing
Discovery and scoping engagements start from $3,500. Full delivery oversight runs as a project-rate engagement or a fractional retainer through Keal Collective.