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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – November 2023
AI-related updates and Copilot dominated the headlines in November, but Microsoft Viva and its employee experience platform also made significant progress. Viva Engage, in particular, announced several new features and updates to enhance employee engagement and communication. This month also marked the first integration of Copilot with Viva Insights, which will allow you to monitor the usage and impact of the various copilots within your organization through a PowerBi dashboard.
NOV
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Viva Goals – Enhanced Progress Tracking with Azure DevOps Integration
Viva Goals
With the enhanced progress tracking options, Viva Goals users will soon be able to track progress based on Azure DevOps fields such as effort, story points, completed work, remaining work, original estimate as well as custom numeric fields, in addition to the existing item level completion tracking.
NOV
2
Audit – New Microsoft Viva Engage Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users
Viva Engage
Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security events for Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly known as Yammer). As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 6 new Microsoft Viva Engage events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users.
Microsoft Viva: Post articles in Viva Engage
Viva Engage
With articles, you can write longer, more thoughtful posts with inline images, sections, headings, and more.
NOV
6
Viva Engage AMA Events Enables Private AMA and Now Allows Multiple Hosts and Organizers
Viva Engage
Today Viva Engage AMAs only allow for AMA Events that are public and open to the entire organization, though they might only be promoted to specific groups of people they could be discovered and accessed by anyone in the organization. With this update, AMA Events will now allow you to make your event private and only accessible to a specific list of attendees. Additionally, we will also be releasing a way for you to add up to 10 hosts and organizers to help expand the types of events you can host and make moderation easier.
VMicrosoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour for Viva Engage
Viva Engage
This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour for Viva Engage private messages and community conversations, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations.
NOV
14
Microsoft Viva: Answers in Viva content in Workplace Search
Answers in Viva
Users searching from Microsoft Search surfaces will be able to find content from Answers in Viva that match their search.
NOV
15
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard from Viva Insights
Viva Insights
The Microsoft Copilot Dashboard is a new Power BI app from Viva Insights that helps organizational leaders prepare for rollout, and track adoption and impact of Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.
NOV
16
Updating Admin settings for paused Microsoft Viva Briefing emails
Microsoft Viva
Based on customer feedback, early this year we paused Viva Briefing emails as part of a larger initiative to improve the overall Viva user experience. (MC486289 December ’22).
Viva Amplify – Publish to Viva Engage
Viva Amplify
Campaign members can now additionally publish their publication to Viva Engage.
NOV
17
Observer role is being retired in Viva Goals
Viva Goals
In an effort to simplify the access and permissions landscape in Viva Goals, we will be retiring the ‘Observer’ role from Viva Goals.
Connections Analytics for multiple Connections experiences
Viva Connections
With this feature, customers using multiple Viva Connections experiences in their tenants will see analytics aggregated at each experience level. There will be no change in how the analytics module is accessed or any metrics provided.
NOV
21
Viva Pulse – Teams Chat Notifications Requires Latest Viva Pulse Teams App Version
Viva Pulse
In addition to email and Teams Activity feed notifications, Viva Pulse will begin to deliver notifications through Teams Chat. Users will only receive Teams Chat notifications if they have the latest Viva Pulse Teams app version installed (Version 1.0.9 or higher).
Viva Goals – Custom Terminology
Viva Goals
The goals term customization feature allows organization admins to customize terminology used in Viva Goals. Now, program owners can run goal programs using nomenclature that best suits their organization. Terms such as OKRs, Objectives, Key Results and Initiatives can be customized in the admin settings.
Viva Pulse Customization Control Migration
Viva Pulse
The customization control in the Viva Pulse Admin Experience will soon be managed through centralized feature access management in Viva through PowerShell. This customization control provides admins the ability to turn on or off customization capabilities for survey authors to add their own questions to existing stock templates or edit existing stock questions. With centralized feature access management, admins can configure access at the tenant level, group level (using AAD groups or M365 Groups), or at the user level, for maximum flexibility.
NOV
22
Viva Goals Export APIs
Viva Goals
Customers will be able to programmatically export Viva Goals data in an Explorer View via Microsoft Graph APIs. Today, customers must manually export the data in an Explorer View.dition to the existing item level completion tracking.
NOV
23
Viva in the left rail
Microsoft Viva
The Viva Admin experience is moving from the Setup tab into the Settings tab in the left rail under “Viva”. It can now be found as below:
NOV
30
Community Campaigns in Viva Engage
Viva Engage
Introducing community campaigns to boost engagement within your community. Now, community admins can easily create campaigns directly within the community. Simply locate the campaign’s right rail, click the plus button, and fill in campaign details like #hashtag, description, and default publisher in the pop-up.
Microsoft 365 Groups Connected Viva Goals Teams
Viva Goals
Viva Goals is launching this new team set up experience that enables end users to leverage their existing Microsoft 365 groups that they already own to create teams. The connected experience provides an effortless way for team owners to leverage the group membership and policy settings used commonly by Teams, SharePoint and other cloud apps. With this Microsoft 365 group-connected Viva Goals Teams experience, users will be able to also set their team` Viva Goals content as restricted and protect their team OKRs from unintended access.
Viva Goals–Improved organization admin settings experience
Viva Goals
Simplified organization admin settings page and additional organization management controls.
Updated post type designs in Viva Engage
Viva Engage
The design of the praise, poll, and question post types in Viva Engage are changing to a more streamlined format. Users will retain all the same publishing and engagement features as the previous design. We’ve made this change to put more emphasis on user content and help with the experience across surfaces.
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