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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – December 2024
As we step into 2025, it’s time to reflect on the latest developments in Microsoft Viva from December 2024. Unfortunately, December brought a sad announcement for Viva Suite fans: the deprecation of Viva Goals. Following the earlier discontinuation of Viva Topics, this raises the question—could this be the beginning of the end for Microsoft’s Employee Experience suite of products?
Despite this setback, other Viva applications continued to receive exciting updates. Viva Connections, for instance, introduced new ACE (Adaptive Card Extensions) cards and will soon allow users to add their own cards to the dashboard, offering a new level of customization and personalization.
Stay informed and make the most of these updates by reading more about all the announcements and see how these changes can benefit you and your organization.
DEC
6
Microsoft Viva: Keyword monitoring email notification enhancements
Microsoft Viva
This revamps the existing content alert (keyword monitoring) emails that admins receive to include added context on the content being monitored and minor security enhancements.
DEC
8
Microsoft Viva Pulse: “Customize the privacy policy statement” feature will retire
Viva Pulse
Viva Pulse will retire the Customize the privacy policy statement feature in the Privacy settings. Instead, Viva Pulse will reference the Microsoft admin center’s Organizational privacy policy, which is an existing capability for Microsoft apps. This retirement eliminates duplicate capabilities.
8 new Copilot feature metrics in Copilot dashboard and Viva Insights advanced insights, including Business Chat (web)
Viva Insights
8 new Copilot feature metrics are now generally available in the Copilot Dashboard and Viva Insights Advanced insights. The new Copilot feature metrics being added, include:
Microsoft Viva: Updates to the admin experience
Microsoft Viva
Microsoft Viva’s admin experience is being updated with a new landing page and Feature Access Management interface in the Microsoft 365 admin center, rolling out from December 2024 to February 2025. These updates will provide easier navigation and direct management of feature access settings.
Viva Pulse experience will be included with Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription
Viva Pulse
Microsoft Viva Pulse will be included with the Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription, rolling out early to mid-December 2024. Users with Copilot or Viva Pulse premium licenses can create and send Pulse surveys. Full access requires a premium license. Rollout requires no admin action and features will be enabled by default.
DEC
9
Important Update: Viva Goals Retirement Announcement
Viva Goals
Viva Goals will be retired on December 31, 2025, with no new feature development after December 5, 2024. Organizations using Viva Goals should disable auto-renewal and contact Microsoft for service plan queries or technical support. Users must be informed about this change.
Viva Engage reactions history data will soon be available in network-level data export
Viva Engage
Viva Engage reactions history will be included in network-level data exports starting early December 2024, with full rollout by mid-December. Admins can export tenant data by date range to view reactions.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Metrics reporting via Data Export
Viva Learning
Enterprises can get aggregate metrics on Academy, Content consumption, and user clicks.
Microsoft Viva: Enhanced User Settings experience in Viva Engage
Viva Engage
Modernized user experience for leveraging general and notification settings within Viva Engage
DEC
10
Microsoft Viva Connections on the SharePoint app bar
Viva Connections
A new entry point for Viva Connections will be added to the SharePoint app bar, with rollouts starting mid-January 2025 for Targeted Release and late January 2025 for General Availability. This feature requires a published dashboard and enabled Viva Connections on tenants. No admin action is needed before the rollout.
DEC
11
Microsoft Viva: Enterprise News Reader
Microsoft Viva
This update will replace the current Feed experience in Viva Connections across desktop, mobile, and web platforms with a SharePoint News reader experience. This new experience will present SharePoint news from the organizational sites, boosted news, user’s followed sites, frequent sites and people they work with in an immersive reader experience. This will include a Copilot powered news summary as well, available in desktop only in this initial release.
Microsoft Viva: End user cards in Viva Connections
Viva Connections
Employees can now create their own cards that connect to other tools and destinations on Connections dashboard.
DEC
12
Microsoft Viva: New card for Viva Engage conversations in Viva Connections dashboard
Viva Connections
We’re excited to announce a new integration between Viva Engage and Viva Connections—an Engage feed card in the Connections dashboard. Users will be able to view and interact with their Viva Engage feed conversations directly in Viva Connections through a new card in the dashboard. This is possible when the admins/operators add the Engage card into their tenant Viva Connections dashboard. Users can then click on the card to engage with their Viva Engage feed conversations directly in Viva Connections without being redirected out of the app.
DEC
16
Microsoft Viva Connections: Power Apps card
Viva Connections
The Power Apps card for Viva Connections enables integration of power cards and applications onto the dashboard for easy access. It’s linked with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 464999 and will be generally available in early to mid-December 2024. No admin action is required for the rollout.
Viva Engage: Designated experts in Communities
Viva Engage
Microsoft Viva Engage is introducing a Community Expert feature, allowing experts to endorse answers and be recognized with a special label. Community admins assign these roles, which include abilities like marking the best answer. The rollout begins in January 2025 and requires no admin action.
DEC
17
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Enhanced admin notification settings experience
Viva Engage
This creates a modernized user experience for admin notification settings within Viva Engage.
DEC
19
Microsoft Viva: Leaders can use Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Insights
Viva Insights
Microsoft Viva Insights will soon integrate Microsoft 365 Copilot, enabling leaders to analyze organizational data and generate reports. New features include query capabilities and Copilot-driven reports. The update requires a Viva Insights premium license and will be available on various Teams platforms, with a Public Preview in December 2024 and General Availability in January 2025. No additional Copilot license is needed.
DEC
20
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Zero downtime for Viva Glint releases
Viva Glint
Viva Glint releases previously needed several hours of downtime. With this feature, future releases will be transparent to customers, requiring no downtime planning.
DEC
23
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Support for dwell time and clicks graphs in Amplify reporting
Viva Amplify
This release will add two new graphs to Amplify reporting: dwell time and clicks. The dwell time graph will indicate the average time users spend reading a publication, giving important insight into the engagement of users with the Amplify campaign. The clicks graph will indicate the number of times a link in the publication was clicked by a reader, again giving important insight into the engagement level of users. Both of these metrics will be supported from SharePoint and Outlook channels.
Viva Learning: AI and Copilot Resources Provider visibility
Viva Learning
The AI and Copilot Resources Provider will be visible by default to users with Copilot licenses in Microsoft 365, with rollout starting late December 2024. Admins can manage visibility and permissions for this content, which will also be searchable by users. No admin action is required for the rollout.
DEC
31
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Custom agent Power BI report in Viva Insights analyst workbench
Viva Insights
Custom agent adoption metrics and insights report in Viva Insights analyst workbench. Scope includes custom agents created in Copilot Studio, insights are aggregated on the agent-level.
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