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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – October 2024
October was particularly busy for Viva Insights, which received quite a few updates to enhance your productivity and well-being. On the communication front, Viva Engage, Viva Connections, and Viva Amplify also received interesting updates that will significantly improve your interaction with these applications.
To ensure you stay updated and make the most out of your Viva suite, be sure to check out the complete blog post.
OCT
1
Microsoft Viva Insights (Workplace Analytics): Service plan updates
Microsoft Insights
The Microsoft Office 365 subscription will be updated with a service plan for Microsoft Viva Insights Backend in late October 2024, providing insights into organizational trends. No admin action is required before the rollout.
Change to data classification for Copilot usage information in the Microsoft 365 admin center and Viva Insights
Microsoft Viva
The message informs that Microsoft 365 Copilot usage data has been reclassified as required service data, eliminating the need for optional diagnostic data for active usage metrics. This change is effective immediately, and no action is needed if devices are updated to specified application versions.
Viva Amplify – Collaborative authoring
Microsoft Viva
Multiple authors can collaborate on a Viva Amplify publication at the same time.
OCT
2
Viva Insights – New Business Chat prompts submitted through Teams
Microsoft Insights
This adds new Business Chat prompts submitted through Teams metric to Copilot dashboard and Viva Insights Advanced insights.
OCT
3
Microsoft Viva Insights: Business Leader role removal
Microsoft Insights
In January 2025, Microsoft Viva Insights will discontinue the Business Leader role, maintaining Manager, Analyst, and Delegate roles. Affected users can retain access through delegation by a Manager. The “whole company” view will also be removed, but can be accessed via top leader delegation. Preparation involves assigning affected users as delegates.
OCT
4
Viva Insights – New Copilot adoption metrics and completing total actions taken
Microsoft Insights
This adds seven new Copilot adoption metrics to the Copilot dashboard and Viva Insights Advanced insights. It also updates the “total actions taken” metric in the Copilot dashboard to include these new Copilot adoption metrics.
Viva Learning – Private thumbnail using SharePoint links for courses
Microsoft Learning
Private thumbnail using SharePoint links for courses hosted at SuccessFactors can be displayed at Viva Learning.
Viva Insights – Analyst query notification email
Microsoft Insights
We are launching a new feature for a Viva Insights Analyst who will be able to receive a query notification email that provides them with the status of their recently completed query. The notification email will be triggered both for a successful and failed query executed in Advanced Insights (Analyst workbench). Both custom queries and Power BI reports are in the scope of this feature. The Viva Insights Analyst can access the Analyst query notification email from their inbox.
Microsoft Viva Glint and Viva Insights integration for sentiment and collaboration data
Microsoft Glint
Microsoft Viva Glint and Viva Insights are integrating to provide sentiment and collaboration data. A new Power BI report will be available in the Viva advanced insights app and Viva Glint dashboard. Public Preview is available now, with full rollout expected by mid-November 2024. No admin action is required before the rollout.
OCT
7
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Customer Facing Reports via Insights Integration
Microsoft Learning
Org level breakdown of Learning metrics in Viva Insights.
Viva Engage – Recommended comments
Microsoft Viva
Viva Engage will offer a new way to see contributions from close contacts and leaders within conversation threads. In the home feed and More for You feed, users see two comments that are meaningful to them and the overall conversation. Users can see the rest of the conversation with one click. There are no changes to the comment, reply, or reaction experiences with this new feature.
OCT
10
Microsoft Viva Pulse: New Pulse tenant admin dashboard for users with Pulse admin access
Viva Pulse
The new Pulse tenant admin dashboard will be available for Microsoft Viva Pulse admins, providing metrics to track usage and ROI. It will roll out worldwide from late October to early November 2024, and will be on by default. Pulse admins can access it via the Viva Pulse app or web. No admin action is required before the rollout.
OCT
17
Viva Engage – Top questions
Microsoft Engage
Top Questions shows community members the most-viewed questions in their community over the last 90 days. It is designed to help people quickly find the most relevant and popular questions in their communities.
Microsoft Viva: Copilot for leaders in Viva Insights
Viva Insights
Empower leaders to ask questions about their organization and how their team is doing through responses that leverage Viva Insights behavioral metrics and organizational context data.
Microsoft Viva: Skills and AI transformation scenarios for Leaders in Viva Insights
Viva Insights
Enable leaders to ask questions about skills their team possess based on user-confirmed skills and Viva AI engine. Furthermore, they can dive deeper with dynamically curated reports. Along with this, they will have the ability to learn about AI adoption and impact on their team with Microsoft Copilot features.
Microsoft Viva Learning: Admins can edit Learning path content
Viva Learning
Microsoft Viva Learning will soon allow admins to edit Learning path content, not just metadata. This feature, for Viva Learning premium users, starts rolling out in late December 2024 and completes by late January 2025. No admin action is required for this update.
Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Copilot in Microsoft Viva Amplify
Viva Amplify
Microsoft 365 Copilot is now available in Viva Amplify to improve authoring with AI. It’s accessible without a Copilot license if you have a Viva Amplify license. Copilot offers rewriting, length adjustment, and tone setting features but is not available on SharePoint or mobile apps. No admin action is needed for the rollout.
OCT
18
Viva Engage – Page header enhancements
Viva Engage
We’ve made enhancements to the Viva Engage page header for a more streamlined experience. The header now pulls in more relevant content and emphasizes key actions like “Join.” Additionally, we’ve reduced the icon size slightly to prevent overlap with background images, ensuring improved visibility and interaction.
OCT
21
Viva Engage: Page header enhancements
Viva Engage
Microsoft Viva Engage is updating its page header to be more streamlined, with relevant content and highlighted key actions. Icon/avatar sizes are reduced to minimize overlap. Rollout begins early November 2024, with new image dimensions provided for community administrators. No admin action required before rollout.
OCT
23
Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections experience for Homesite customers
Viva Connections
This feature sets the Home site as the default for the Viva Connections experience in Teams desktop. Once implemented, users will be able to access their organization’s Home site through the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop. This change will only apply to customers who have not yet configured a Viva Connections experience.
OCT
25
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Custom question benchmark mapping
Viva Glint
Viva Glint survey creators will be able to associate a custom question with a Viva Glint benchmark to leverage the benchmark in the reporting UI.
Microsoft Viva Engage (Yammer): Enhanced audit log schema
Viva Engage
Microsoft Viva Engage (Yammer) will update its audit log schema to include unique identifiers for the user performing an action (actor) and the user/object affected (target), along with a parameter to capture old and new values of modified fields. These changes will be available for E3 license users and will roll out by late December 2024. Admins should update documentation and scripts accordingly.
Microsoft Viva Engage: Community settings for Community Resources and Files tab
Viva Engage
Microsoft Viva Engage will introduce community settings for the Community Resources module and Files tab, with a rollout starting late October 2024 and completing by mid-November 2024. Community admins will gain control over the visibility of these features with new toggles. Default settings will have both features visible.
OCT
29
Microsoft Viva: MySites card for Viva Connections Dashboard
Viva Connections
This card will help operators add a card on the Viva Connections Dashboard which will provide quick access to the frequently accessed and followed sites by the end user.
Microsoft Viva: Ability to request delegate access in Viva Insights
Viva Insights
Viva Insights users will now be able request delegate access from a Manager in the Insights Teams or Web app. Previously, Managers could assign delegates, but potential delegates could not request access from a Manager. This request access update will allow for increased ease & flexibility of providing delegate access in Insights.
Microsoft Viva Engage: Top questions in your communities
Viva Engage
Microsoft Viva Engage is introducing a ‘Top questions’ feature to display the most popular questions in a community over the last 90 days, aiding in finding relevant content. It will roll out from mid-November to late December 2024 and will be enabled by default. No admin action is required for the rollout.
OCT
30
Microsoft Viva Engage: New features for Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption community
Viva Engage
Coming soon to the Microsoft Viva Engage adoption community for Microsoft 365 Copilot, admins will have access to new suggested content covering timely Copilot updates and best practices and the ability to easily upload documents and leverage AI to generate Q&A pairs using Answers Intelligent Importer.
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