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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – November 2024
While it might seem that the Microsoft Viva suite has taken a backseat to Copilot for Microsoft 365, it continues to receive monthly updates aimed at improving user experience. This month, the spotlight is on communication applications, with Viva Engage, Viva Connections, and Viva Amplify receiving the majority of new features.
As I publish this post a week later than usual in December, we’ve already received the unfortunate news that Microsoft Viva will lose its second application, with Viva Goals being deprecated and removed from the suite next year. To stay updated on all the latest developments, be sure to check out the full blog post.
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Microsoft Viva: Power Apps card for Viva Connections
Viva Connections
This card allows you to bring your Power Apps and Cards on the dashboard for quick access.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Admin ability to assign Delegates
Viva Insights
Admins (Global administrators or Insights administrators) will now be able to assign or remove delegates for a Manager in Viva Insights via PowerShell. Previously, only Managers could assign delegates. Now, this ability provides delegate access in Insights to admins, allowing for ease and flexibility.
Viva Engage: Mute conversations in feeds and digests
Viva Engage
Microsoft Viva Engage will soon introduce a ‘Mute conversations’ feature allowing network admins and corporate communicators to remove threads from the Home Feed and email digests. This feature, part of new moderation tools, will be available on all Engage platforms but can only be muted from the web and Teams and Outlook apps. Rollout starts mid-November 2024.
Viva Insights: Users can request delegate access
Viva Insights
Microsoft Viva Insights will soon allow users to request delegate access from managers, applicable to various Teams platforms and the web app. The rollout starts in December 2024 for Targeted Release and January 2025 for General Availability, requiring no admin setup as it’s on by default.
Microsoft Copilot 365 in Viva Glint will support the summarization of employee survey comments
Viva Glint
Starting November 2024, Microsoft Copilot 365 in Viva Glint will summarize employee survey comments, identify themes, and suggest actions. It requires a Viva Glint license and admin configuration. Public Preview begins June 2024, with General Availability in November 2024. Roadmap ID: 324079.
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Microsoft Viva: Connections insights and recommendations digest
Microsoft Viva
This creates a periodic digest email to editors of Viva Connections, informing them of the analytics summary of their Connections experience and recommendations to improve engagement.
Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales – Access Copilot for Sales usage data via the Viva Insights Analyst Workbench
Viva Insights
We are announcing the access Copilot for Sales usage data via the Viva Insights Analyst Workbench feature for Copilot for Sales. This feature will reach general availability on November 15, 2024.
Microsoft SharePoint: Feed for Viva Connections web part and Video news link end of support starting November 5, 2024
Viva Connections
Support for the Feed for Viva Connections web part and Video news link will end on November 5, 2024. Alternatives are provided, and un-replaced web parts will display an error after this date. For more information, refer to the support guidance.
Microsoft Viva Insights: Admins assign delegate access
Viva Insights
Microsoft Viva Insights will soon allow admins to assign or remove delegates for managers using PowerShell cmdlets. This feature, associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 464207, will roll out between mid-November 2024 and late January 2025. It will be off by default with no admin action required before rollout.
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Viva Engage – Edit and schedule polls
Viva Engage
Users can schedule a poll for publication in Engage. Users can also edit a poll prior to publication, though once published, a poll is not editable.
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Viva Insights – Data export for Viva Glint and Viva Insights data
Viva Insights
This feature will allow Viva Insights Analyst to download a CSV file containing Viva Glint survey results joined with Viva Insights organizational data.
Microsoft Viva Engage: Unregistered users in an external network will not receive community emails
Viva Engage
Unregistered users in Microsoft Viva Engage external networks will no longer receive community emails unless they accept an invitation and complete registration. This change, effective from December 2024 to January 2025, aims to enhance active engagement and reduce unnecessary emails. Organizations should inform users and update documentation accordingly.
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Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Copilot Dashboard filter and other dashboard enhancements
Microsoft Viva
Introducing exciting new features to help you better understand and improve adoption and impact of Copilot for Microsoft 365 through the Copilot Dashboard. Enhancements include the following: supporting multi-select capabilities for Scope filters to facilitate group comparisons and the ability to upload HR organizational data for Scope filter updates; and synchronized date ranges across the Readiness and Adoption pages for consistency and ease of analysis.
Updates in computation of network metrics and cross-collaboration metrics in Viva Insights
Viva Insights
Viva Insights’ network metrics and cross-collaboration queries have been updated for better connection identification and data protection. Rollout starts mid-November 2024, with minor changes in query values expected. No action is required from organizations.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot can access Microsoft Viva Engage content
Viva Engage
Microsoft 365 Copilot will soon access Viva Engage content, including question posts in public communities and Answers, to provide relevant responses. This feature requires a Copilot license and will be available on web and mobile platforms, starting mid-December 2024 and completing by late January 2025. No admin action is needed for the rollout.
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Microsoft Viva: Connections on the SharePoint app bar
Microsoft Viva
The Connections in the SharePoint App bar feature will provide a seamless entry point to Viva Connections from SharePoint, enhancing the synergy between the Intranet and Viva Connections.
Microsoft Viva Amplify and Microsoft SharePoint: New required footers will be automatically applied to email
Viva Amplify
New automatic footers will be added to emails sent from Microsoft Viva Amplify and SharePoint when sharing SharePoint News posts. These footers will include the customer logo, a Microsoft-generated statement, and a privacy statement link. Rollout begins early November 2024 and completes by mid-November. No admin action is required before the rollout. Organizations should update configurations and inform internal communicators.
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Migration of Topics used in Viva Engage
Viva Engage
In February 2024, the retirement of Viva Topics was announced. As part of the change, Viva Engage will return to a simplified topics model, called Engage topics, and the integration with Viva Topics will be retired. This message is for customers who have tenants with topics data that currently resides in Viva Topics or Topics lightweight management and who are not licensed to use Viva Topics after December 31, 2024.
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Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – New Copilot with enterprise data protection prompt metric
Viva Insights
A new metric counting the prompts submitted through Business Chat (web) or Copilot with enterprise data protection metric will be added to Viva Insights advanced insights and Copilot dashboard.
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Viva Connections cards in Microsoft 365 Copilots
Viva Connections
Microsoft 365 Copilot brings Viva Connections cards to conversations. When a card is relevant for a specific topic, the card will surface in the conversation chat and users will be able to interact with it directly from Microsoft 365 Copilot without interrupting the user’s flow.
Viva Insights: Data export for Viva Glint and Viva Insights data
Viva Insights
We are pleased to announce the general availability of data export for Microsoft Viva Glint and Microsoft Viva Insights within the Microsoft Advanced Insights application. Analysts can now use the existing Glint and organizational insights Power BI template to run queries, and, with this new functionality, results can be downloaded as a CSV file. The existing feature allows users to view results as an embedded Power BI.
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Viva Engage: Community analytics update
Viva Engage
Coming soon: Updates to community analytics features for Microsoft Viva Engage. After this rollout, users will be able to keep up with their community’s activities in real time. We have added additional data ranges to support periods of 7 days, 28 days, 90 days, and 365 days. We have also added a new top conversations table that displays the conversations with the most engagement in the community and new Q&A engagement metrics, including an overview of most popular questions.
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New support documentation structure for Workday and Microsoft Viva Learning
Viva Learning
Note: If your organization is not using the Workday and Microsoft Viva Learning integration, you can safely ignore this message.
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Viva Connections: Default experience for Home site customers
Viva Connections
Coming soon: We will automatically set your Home site as the default experience for Microsoft Viva Connections app in Microsoft Teams.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot now available to Viva Insights analysts
Viva Insights
Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft Viva Insights simplifies the query-building process for analysts by recommending templates, metrics, filters, and attributes relevant to their analysis. After this rollout, analysts can view and build their reports more efficiently using Copilot’s assistive features. Licenses required: Viva Insights or Microsoft Viva Suite.
Viva Engage: Additional permissions added to the corporate communicator role
Viva Engage
Coming soon to Microsoft Viva: Corporate communicators will be able to perform these following communication management tasks without relying on the IT admin (network admin):
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