What’s new for Microsoft Viva – June 2023
Introducing the latest updates for Microsoft Viva! I’m excited to share that this month Microsoft announced updates to three new applications of the suite: Viva Pulse, Viva Glint, and Viva Amplify. These additions bring enhanced employee feedback, improved employee engagement measurement, and streamlined publication distribution, respectively.
It’s an exciting time for Microsoft Viva users as Microsoft continues to evolve and enhance the platform.
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Viva Learning content provider configuration feature will now be available in Viva Learning Admin tab
Viva Learning
Provider configuration will now be available on Viva Learning Admin tab. Admins can add/edit/delete the LMS, 3P and global learning providers directly from Manage providers in Viva Learning app. The existing configuration capabilities on M365 Admin centre will no longer be available by 15th June.
Answers-focused view in Viva Engage
Viva Engage
Next month, more enhancements for Answers in Viva will be available for Microsoft Viva customers. A new Answers-focused view will be rolling out for organizations with limited Viva Engage communities to help focus their Viva Engage experience on asking and answers questions.
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Viva Engage digest
Viva Engage
This new weekly digest will showcase premium features from Viva Engage alongside content from communities and storylines. Premium customers will see their current storyline and discovery digests evolve into this new email.
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Campaign Hub, Search for Campaigns and Executive Sponsorship for Campaigns
Viva Engage
Campaigns in Viva Engage is launching three new features: campaign hub, search category for campaigns, and executive sponsorship for campaigns. Users will be able to discover and find campaigns. Leaders will be able to sponsor the campaigns they support. Campaigns that have executive sponsors will also show up in Leadership Corner.
Deactivate and delete organisations in Viva Goals
Viva Goals
IT admins or Viva Goals admins can deactivate organizations or delete them if required from the Viva Goals Admin portal. They can also configure to automatically deactivate inactive organizations.
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Microsoft Viva Glint service plan availability
Viva Glint
Microsoft Viva Glint is the new “voice of the employee” solution that is available for use with your Viva Suite subscription. Microsoft Viva Glint helps organizations understand and improve employee engagement. Organizations get immediate visibility into the employee experience with org-wide surveys and recommended actions to drive business outcomes. Questions and action plans are based on People Science to guide employee listening and engagement programs that support the employee experience. Leaders and managers can view results to understand wins and opportunities, compare performance against benchmarks and receive personalized suggestions for learning courses, conversation starters, and other actions that support positive business outcomes. Learn more about Microsoft Viva Glint.
Quick Access to Homesite on Viva Connections Mobile
Viva Connections
To allow users access to their Homesite and intranet easily, we are redesigning the Viva connections dashboard layout by adding a shortcut button to the homesite. The same updates will be available for the Tablet experience as well.
Viva Connections – Analytics Enhancements
Viva Connections
Enhancements to existing Viva Connections analytics capabilities providing an analytics dashboard for data visualization and additional metrics at a Dashboard card level.
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Viva Goals OKR Level Permissions Enhancements
Viva Goals
Users can now use AAD groups and Viva Goals teams to assign permissions at an OKR level.
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Deactivate and delete organisations in Viva Goals
Viva Goals
IT admins or Viva Goals admins can deactivate organizations or delete them if required from the Viva Goals Admin portal. They can also configure to automatically deactivate inactive organizations.
New tenant configuration experiences within Viva Engage admin center
Viva Engage
Starting the first week of July, the same tenant configuration experiences currently available in the Yammer admin center will also be available within the Viva Engage admin center for Microsoft Viva customers. Global admins, Engage admins (Yammer administrator AAD role) and Yammer network admins can access these features from both the Web and Teams version of the Viva Engage admin experience.
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Viva Pulse availability
Viva Pulse
Viva Pulse is a new employee feedback experience that is available for use with your Viva Suite subscription. Viva Pulse empowers managers and project team leaders to request and receive feedback from their teams at any time. Managers and project leads can choose from research-based templates to quickly create a pulse request and send it to select individuals, or groups. They will receive confidential feedback from their team, and they can take immediate action to increase employee engagement and wellbeing. To ensure that your organization has access to this app, our engineering team will conduct a procedure which will ensure that customers having an active subscription to the Microsoft Viva Suite will see the new Viva Pulse service plan alongside other existing Viva service plans.
Answers in Viva on Mobile
Viva Engage
Microsoft is thrilled to announce the launch of the mobile version of the Answers in Viva experience for iOS and Android. Our goal is to bring the power of organizational knowledge sharing to the convenience of your mobile device.
Answers in Viva is available to licensed Viva Suite customers and/or licensed Viva Topics customers.
Enhanced Controls for OKR and Initiatives Status
Viva Goals
Viva Goals offers enhanced status control for OKRs and initiatives. Previously, when setting up an OKR or initiative, progress and status were combined into a single field. With this change, customers can now change status independently of progress, offering greater control and flexibility.
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Topic migration update and enhancements rolling out in Viva Engage
Viva Engage
In January, we announced the General Availability of Viva Topics for our Viva Engage customers. In support of this change, topic migrations began for Viva Engage (Yammer) networks in Native mode and will continue until all Viva Engage networks have migrated to Viva Topics. To support the migration of topics, in June 2023 we are releasing a set of enhancements and fixes, such as revisions to our data export and API behavior.
Viva Goals: Alignment view
Viva Goals
Viva Goals announces the release of the alignment view, designed to help users visualize how their work contributes to top-level organizational goals more efficiently than ever before. With this revamped experience, users can quickly gain a bird’s eye view of their objectives and expand or collapse them to different levels from the chart. This feature will provide users with a more comprehensive understanding of their progress towards team goals, helping them to stay aligned with the teams’ objectives.
Viva Goals: Manual status computation
Viva Goals
Viva Goals unveils enhanced status control for OKRs and projects. Previously, when setting up an OKR or project, customers had limited control over the status, as it was solely dependent on progress. However, with the latest update, users now have the ability to compute the status independently, giving them greater control and flexibility.
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Topic card expanded view shows more details about a topic
Viva Topics
Stay in the flow of your work to learn more from the topic card with this expanded view.
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New Viva Connections Analytics Experience Coming Soon
Viva Connections
Microsoft is pleased to announce the next set of features for Viva Connections usage analytics. The analytics experience now includes a full page dashboard view that will help organizations better understand user engagement by being able to visualize the metrics. The analytics dashboard will be available through both the Viva Connections desktop experience in Teams and through a SharePoint home site if your organization has one. Additionally, this release also includes engagement metrics for individual dashboard cards which will enable a more in-depth view of popular cards and those with less engagement.
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Amplify Author Publications & Distribute to Multiple Destinations
Viva Amplify
Viva Amplify enables you to author a publication once, and then choose different destinations such as Outlook, SharePoint and Teams to make it available. Viva Amplify will automatically format your content for different destinations and you can choose to customize the content or layout.
Amplify Reporting & Analytics
Viva Amplify
Measure how effective your campaign and its associated publications are with reports. View aggregate results across campaigns, specific publications, or audiences. Understand reach, impact and interactions.
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Topic card expanded view shows more details about a topic
Viva Topics
Microsoft is rolling out the expanded view of the topic card for Viva Topics tenants that brings more information on the topic to users. Users can click on the topic name to view the expanded view of the card and learn more about the topic.
Amplify Campaign Creation & Management
Viva Aplify
Create communications campaigns, invite collaborations from colleagues as communicators, reviewers and editors. Set up your campaign brief with key goals and messages. Manage your communications as part of the campaign.
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Take advantage of new Viva Engage capabilities for leaders and communicators
Viva Engage
This month Microsoft has introduced several capabilities for leaders, corporate communicators, and employees to improve your campaigns, events, and engagement across the platform.
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