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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – July 2023
Microsoft has been on the forefront of revolutionizing the way we work and collaborate, and their Viva Suite continues to be a driving force in the digital workplace. July proved to be an exciting month with several significant announcements and updates to the Viva Suite, empowering users with enhanced knowledge management, learning opportunities, employee feedback, and goal tracking.
Viva Suite received significant updates in July, including the ability to export Viva Goals data via public APIs, lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license, and the integration of Viva Learning with free LinkedIn courses. These updates aim to enhance knowledge management, learning opportunities, and employee feedback, further improving the digital workplace experience.
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Viva Goals Export APIs
Viva Goals
Customers will be able to export Viva Goals data via public APIs.
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Lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license
Viva Topics
Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage. These topics don’t use Viva Topics’ AI, topic cards and pages but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage.
With this release, Microsoft is proving a way for knowledge admins to edit, create, and delete these “simple” topics without Viva licensing as a way to make knowledge management more accessible to more users.
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Update to the Free LinkedIn Courses Available in Viva Learning
Viva Learning
As part of the Viva Learning integration with LinkedIn, Microsoft provides free content in Viva Learning that can be accessed by any Viva Learning user without the need for a LinkedIn premium license. As part of this partnership, we are increasing the set of free courses to the Global Skilling Initiative catalog which consists of more than 300 courses. This will replace the existing catalog of 125 free LinkedIn courses available in Viva Learning.
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Lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license
Viva Topics
Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage. These topics don’t use Viva Topics’ AI, topic cards, or pages, but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage.
With this release, Microsoft is providing a way for Viva Engage admins to edit, create, and delete these “simple” topics without Viva licensing as a way to make knowledge management more accessible to more users.
Using Topics in Viva Engage will grant limited access to Viva Topic Names
Viva Topics
As part of the Viva Engage (Yammer) transition to the Viva Topics platform, Viva Engage posts (conversations, questions, polls, announcements, storyline posts) will be considered as Viva Topic resources. As a result, topic names will be applied to posts and will grant limited access to the topic for all users with access to the post
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Diversity Equity and Inclusion report template in Viva Insights
Viva Insights
Use this report template to measure the impact and efficacy of your DEI strategy. Companies know how to measure diversity, but often struggle with inclusion and equity measures. This report measures the impact of DEI strategies. Examining coaching time, access to leadership, network composition, engagement drivers, and other career advancement elements.
Bulk Import Teams in Viva Goals
Viva Goals
With the bulk import of teams, administrators and anyone with the permission to create teams will be able to create multiple teams at a time by importing them from an external source using an Excel template. This will also enable creation of organization hierarchy and addition of members into these teams by adding groups, as part of the team creation process.
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Feature Access Management in Viva Learning for Admin features
Viva Learning
Microsoft is introducing feature access management in Viva Learning for admin features. Global Admin and Knowledge Admin can delegate admin feature access to non-admin users via M365 groups.
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Viva Goals: Date Picker in Check-in Modal to Show UTC Timezone
Viva Goals
Previously in Viva goals, when making a check-in, the user could update the date of check-in from the check-in modal, which was based on the user’s local time zone. Users in different time zones saw the date of check-in and its representation on the progress graph differently, computation of progress and status also became a challenge.
Viva Pulse – Enabling Notifications
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 survey and send it to select individuals or groups. They can also track feedback to understand team sentiment over time and show teams they’re being heard by working together to take clear steps to address needs.
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Announcements in Viva Connections
Viva Connections
Announcements allow you to create and share time-sensitive messages in Viva Connections. You can set up, manage, and schedule announcements from your organization’s SharePoint home site or the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop.
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Share an Update broadcast feature for Viva Goals
Viva Goals
With “Share an Update”, leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email.
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Use of Viva Topics in Viva Engage Grants Visibility of Topic Names
Viva Engage
In January, we announced the General Availability of Viva Topics in Viva Engage (Yammer) to customers. As part of the Viva Engage topics transition to Viva Topics, posts in Viva Engage (conversations, questions, polls, announcements, storyline posts) will be considered as Viva Topic resources. As a result, all users with access to posts in Viva Engage will be able to see the topic names applied to those posts in Engage as well as in other Viva Topics experiences in Microsoft 365 (e.g., Topic cards and pages).
Share an Update broadcast feature for Viva Goals
Viva Goals
With “Share an Update”, leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email.
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