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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – February 2025
This month, Microsoft Viva has introduced some fantastic updates that you’ll definitely want to check out. Viva Learning has received numerous enhancements, making it easier than ever for your users to access training resources and continue their learning journey seamlessly.
On Viva Connections, you can now add custom cards to your Connections dashboard, allowing for greater personalization and a more tailored experience. And finally, after a long wait, Viva Amplify now lets you publish your campaigns directly to Viva Engage. This long-awaited feature will enhance your ability to reach and engage with your audience more effectively.
There’s a lot more to catch up on within the Employee Experience suite of products from Microsoft. Stay tuned for more updates and enhancements that will continue to improve your experience with Microsoft Viva.
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Viva Learning – Copilot Academy availability to all Microsoft 365 users
Viva Learning
Copilot Academy will be accessible to users without Copilot licenses. Admins will have the option to select their preferred access settings for Copilot Academy.
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Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy reports in Viva Insights
Viva Insights
Usage reporting for Copilot Academy will be available in Viva Insights via the Analyst Workbench. Users can access these reports through Excel or a PowerBI dashboard.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – SharePoint results integration in Viva Learning Search
Viva Learning
Users will be able to discover relevant internal SharePoint content seamlessly while searching within Viva Learning, ensuring they have access to all pertinent resources in one place.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Viva Learning surfaces personalized according to User skills
Viva Learning
Viva Learning surfaces will be personalized based on user-selected skills and inferred skills derived from their role and activity within the Microsoft Graph. This ensures that the learning content is tailored to each user’s unique needs and professional context.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Semantic search support for in-app Searches
Viva Learning
Semantic search capability understands context and nuances of user queries, providing more accurate and relevant results.
Microsoft Viva: Editing and viewing community ‘info’ revamped
Microsoft Viva
Revamp the community “info” experience to be in line with the existing Engage user patterns. Editing the info, will now be available within the settings experience. Users can read the info from the “About” section additionally.
Microsoft Viva: Central community membership approval experience revamped
Microsoft Viva
The centralized community membership approval experience undergoes a revamp to make it easier for community admins to manage approval requests for all communities they administer, in ONE single place.
Microsoft Viva Insights advanced insights: Organizational data uploads move to the Microsoft 365 admin center (Wave 1.3)
Viva Insights
Note: If your organization does not use the data upload feature in the Microsoft Viva Insights advanced insights app, please disregard this message.
Microsoft Viva Learning: Archive learning objects in My Learning sections
Viva Learning
In Microsoft Viva learning, users can archive learning objects shown in the My Learning > In-progress section and in the My Learning > Recommendations section of their courses. Users can access the Archive button under the vertical ellipsis (…) on the course tile.
Microsoft Viva Engage on the web: New way to access to “Delegate management” feature
Viva Engage
Before this rollout, users accessed the Delegate management feature for Microsoft Viva Engage on the web and Viva Engage in Microsoft Teams from different locations: The gear icon in Viva Engage on the web and the three-dot overflow menu in Teams. After this rollout, users can access the Delegate management feature in Viva Engage on the web from the three-dot overflow menu next to their profile picture, just like they do in Viva Engage in Teams for Windows and Mac desktops.
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Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – ‘AI & Copilot Resources’ provider availability to all Viva Learning users
Viva Learning
The ‘AI & Copilot Resources’ provider will be enabled by default for all Viva Learning users. Administrators will have the ability to manage the visibility of this provider within Viva Learning
Microsoft Viva Connections: New user-created cards
Viva Connections
Employees will soon be able to create their own link cards that connect to other tools and destinations on the Microsoft Viva Connections dashboard.
Microsoft Viva: Tenant-wide notification settings moving to Viva Engage Admin center
Viva Engage
We are modernizing the existing admin notification settings in Viva Engage to make admin notification settings and configuration more user-friendly and intuitive within Viva Engage. Previously, the tenant-wide notifications settings for admin configuration opened in legacy web pages. With this update, these notification settings will now appear under Viva Engage Admin center > Tenant settings.
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Microsoft Viva: Feature Access Management for Copilot in Viva Glint
Viva Glint
Admins will have the ability to enable or disable Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Glint for specific users through the M365 admin center.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Support for inline videos and GIFs in articles
Viva Engage
This adds support for inline videos and GIFs in Viva Engage articles.
Viva Glint: Use Feature Access Management in Viva for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Glint
Viva Glint
We are excited to announce that we will add the Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Glint feature to Feature Access Management in Viva. This will allow global admins and AI admins to control the rollout and availability of Copilot in Viva Glint.
Microsoft Viva: SharePoint agent analytics on Viva Insights
Viva Insights
Explore how your employees used key SharePoint agent features over a given time period and understand the ROI.
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Microsoft Viva: SharePoint agent analytics on Viva Insights
Viva Insights
Explore how your employees used key SharePoint agent features over a given time period and understand the ROI.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Email Previews for Live Surveys
Viva Glint
Customers can preview and test email notifications for survey start (available in VG), survey reminder and survey end/results rollout after configuring and approving program settings.
Microsoft Viva: New Viva Glint Tenant Administrator Role
Viva Glint
We are excited to announce the upcoming Viva Glint M365 Tenant Administrator role in Microsoft Entra. With this role, admins will have dedicated permissions to manage Viva Glint-related settings in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MAC), without requiring the elevated privileges of Global or User admin roles. This role is essential for users who need to: read and configure all settings of Viva Glint in MAC, assign Viva Glint service admins, and create or manage Azure support tickets.
Microsoft Viva: Feature Access Management will support the AI admin role
Microsoft Viva
Microsoft Viva’s Feature Access Management will support the AI admin role starting mid-February 2025. AI admins can manage Copilot features without extensive Global admin permissions. This includes current and future Copilot features in Viva. No admin action is required for the rollout. More details are available here.
Microsoft Viva Learning: New Spell check feature
Viva Learning
Microsoft Viva Learning will introduce a spell check feature for search queries, correcting errors automatically. Users can override corrections if needed. Available in all supported languages, this feature requires enabling optional connected experiences. Rollout begins late January 2025 and completes by late February 2025. Admin and user documentation is provided.
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Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Multi-language posts
Viva Engage
Authors of Viva Engage posts will be able to add multiple manually written translations to a single post.
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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Enhance the Comment Experience for Live Surveys
Viva Glint
Updating the survey experience to provide ability to display the comment box on the screen when a user is providing a rating. Currently, the survey automatically progresses to the next question after the user selects a rating, without giving them an opportunity to leave a comment. With this change, the program will have the ability for the comment box will be persistently visible, encouraging users to provide more qualitative feedback alongside their rating.
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Microsoft Viva Insights: New “Brokers of Information flow” insights category available for Change Management template
Viva Insights
Microsoft Viva Insights is introducing a new “Brokers of Information flow” insights category in the Change Management template, highlighting key employee groups that disseminate information. This feature will roll out globally from mid to late February 2025. No admin action is required, but user notification and documentation updates are recommended.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for historical imports
Viva Glint
This feature will introduce an alternative solution to the existing Advanced Configurations feature that allows an Admin to perform historical imports into the Viva Glint platform.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Additional Teams publishing capabilities (also for frontline workers)
Viva Amplify
You will be able to publish your messages to any Teams channel and to frontline workers through Teams channels using our new Amplify communicator in Teams. To iterate on this, we are also working on publishing to 1:1 chat.
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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for retroactive updates
Viva Glint
This feature will introduce an alternative solution to the existing Advanced Configurations feature that allows an Admin to retroactively update attributes associated to surveys.
Microsoft Viva: CSOD permissions sync in Viva Learning
Viva Learning
Access permissions to learning content set in CSOD using Organizational Units are honored and reflected in Viva Learning.
Microsoft Viva: Introducing the New Republish Feature in Viva Amplify
Viva Amplify
We’re excited to launch Republish, a new feature that keeps your content fresh, extends its reach, and maximizes engagement across SharePoint, Viva Engage, Outlook, and Teams. Update existing published content in a few clicks, re-share key messages to new audiences or channels, correct errors and refine your messaging —all without starting from scratch. Republish in Viva Amplify makes content management effortless.
Microsoft Entra: New built-in Viva Glint Tenant Administrator role
Viva Glint
Microsoft is introducing the Viva Glint Tenant Administrator role in Microsoft Entra, allowing admins to manage Viva Glint settings without needing Global or User Admin privileges. The rollout will occur from late March to early April 2025. Admins should review the role’s documentation, assess current roles, and communicate changes to staff.
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Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Audience breakdown tooltip
Viva Amplify
Amplify reports will provide a breakdown of the channels shown in the Unique viewers card. The tool tip will show the top 5 channel audiences and their contribution to the overall numbers for each publication channel presented in the report.
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Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Pulse users can assign other users as delegates
Viva Pulse
Viva Pulse users can now assign other users as delegates to create and send pulses on their behalf.
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Viva Amplify: Publish to Viva Engage Storyline or Communities
Viva Engage
Viva Amplify will soon allow campaign members and authors to publish communications directly to Viva Engage Storyline or Communities, with options to preview and customize drafts. Rollout begins mid-March 2025 for Targeted Release and early April 2025 for General Availability. No admin action is required, but user notification and training updates are recommended.
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Microsoft Viva Connections: New News feature in Microsoft Teams
Viva Connections
Microsoft Viva Connections in Teams will replace the Feed with a SharePoint News experience, starting March 2025. This update includes a Copilot-powered summary feature for licensed users on Windows desktop. The rollout is automatic, and users will see news based on their activity and permissions.
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