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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – March 2025
Ready for a productivity boost? This month Microsoft Viva brings several enhancements that could streamline your team’s communication and collaboration efforts.
Viva Amplify is getting a nice upgrade with two-column layouts for emails (finally!), plus a new “average time spent per user” graph in reporting that gives you better insights into how your communications are performing. And for those of us who’ve been asking for easier collaboration, Amplify is introducing collaborative authoring so multiple team members can work on the same document simultaneously—no more version control nightmares!
Over in Viva Engage, premium users will notice a streamlined “Create new” button that puts Articles and Questions right at your fingertips. Nothing revolutionary, but definitely a time-saver that makes those premium features more discoverable.
What Viva feature has been the biggest game-changer for your team lately? Drop a comment below! And don’t miss the detailed breakdown of each feature below—especially the collaborative authoring rollout starting mid-April that might just transform how your team creates content together.
MAR
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Microsoft Viva Connections: New News feature in Microsoft Teams
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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Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Multiple column layouts in email
Viva Amplify authored email will support two column layouts.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Animated GIFs in email
We are bringing animated GIFs to email crafted by Viva Amplify. GIFs of limited size will appear as animations in Outlook clients.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Ingestion logs in Viva Learning for SAP SuccessFactors
This creates LMS ingestion logs for catalog, LRS, and Permissions data. Logs will help admins debug any ingestion-related issues.
Microsoft Viva Engage: New custom date ranges for Community and Conversation Analytics
Microsoft Viva Engage will soon allow community admins and content creators to select custom date ranges (1-365 days) for community and conversation analytics. This feature, available to Engage premium, Microsoft Viva Suite, or Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities license holders, will roll out globally from mid to late March 2025. No admin action is required.
Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Viva Insights: New admin settings for advanced insights and personal insights
Microsoft Viva Insights will introduce new admin settings for advanced and personal insights in Microsoft 365 Copilot by April 2025. Global admins will have more control over insights at the tenant level. The rollout will start in early March 2025 and complete by mid-March 2025. No admin action is required before the rollout.
Microsoft SharePoint: New card animation feature for Pages, News, and Microsoft Viva Amplify
Microsoft SharePoint will introduce a new card animation feature for Pages, News, and Microsoft Viva Amplify starting mid-March 2025. This feature will be enabled by default for new cards and can be managed in the web part property pane. No admin action is required before the rollout.
MAR
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Microsoft Viva Engage: Modernized user settings
Microsoft Viva Engage will soon have modernized user settings, rolling out from mid-March to late April 2025. The update will retain key functionalities from Microsoft Yammer, offering a more intuitive interface. Some settings will be managed through Microsoft 365 account settings. No admin action is required.
Microsoft Viva Amplify: New “average time spent per user” graph in reporting
Microsoft Viva Amplify is introducing a new “average time spent per user” graph to its reporting, available at both the campaign and publication levels. This metric will be supported by SharePoint and Outlook channels. The rollout will occur from mid-March to mid-April 2025, requiring no admin action.
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Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Authoring with M365 Copilot
Viva Pulse authors can now work with M365 Copilot to add a question, rewrite a question, and create a survey from scratch to quickly create and send their surveys to their teams to collect feedback. M365 Copilot can seamlessly capture the author’s needs to recommend survey questions that fit their unique scenario.
MAR
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Microsoft Viva: Detailed error description for LMS setup failures
LMS setup form will now have detailed error description for LMS setup failures.
Microsoft Viva: Engage – Create articles and questions more easily with the updated “Create new” button
We are excited to announce the addition of two post creation options—Article and Question—to the centralized creation button in Viva Engage for premium users. Starting April 2025, a Viva Engage premium licensed user will be able to create an article or a question post type directly by clicking on the “Create new” button, easing the process of creation of these post types, while also helping users discover them quicker. Kindly note that this roll out does not entail adding new types of content creation, but brings forth a unified and easier way to create these post types when a user is already licensed to use them.By ‘Viva Engage premium licensed user’, we mean this feature is available for users licensed to the Microsoft Viva Suite or the Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities Suite.
MAR
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Microsoft Viva Engage: Network Consolidation Now Receives 15 Day Notice
Microsoft Viva Engage now provides a 15-day notice for automatic network consolidation, reduced from 30 days. Admins cannot pause or cancel this process. To control the timing, start the consolidation via the Engage Admin Center. Learn more.
Microsoft Viva Engage: Updated “Community information” experience
Microsoft Viva Engage will soon update the “Community information” experience for community admins, simplifying text creation and editing, and limiting the section to 32k characters. This change will apply to various Engage apps and will roll out from late March to mid-April 2025. No admin action is required.
Microsoft Viva Engage: Create articles and questions more easily with the updated “Create new” button
Microsoft Viva Engage will update the “Create new” button for premium users to include options for creating Question and Article posts. This change will roll out in April 2025 and applies to the Engage app on desktop, Outlook, and Teams. No admin action is required before the rollout.
Microsoft Viva Learning: Date Format selection and numerals support
Microsoft Viva Learning will support Date Format selection and numeral changes based on language preferences starting mid-March 2025. Users can select their preferred date format and language under Settings. This update applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams on the web, and the Viva Learning web app. No admin action is required.
Microsoft Viva Insights: Microsoft Copilot Studio agents report (Preview) for the advanced insights app
The Microsoft Copilot Studio agent report template will be available in public preview for Viva Insights customers in mid-April 2025. This Power BI template provides insights into agent adoption and impact. Eligibility requires specific licenses and agent creation. Admins can manage data flow and storage settings.
Microsoft Viva Engage: New AI Summarization features available in Conversation analytics
Microsoft Viva Engage will introduce AI Summarization features in conversation analytics for premium licensed tenants starting late March 2025. Admins can manage access policies via Feature Access Management. AI themes and summaries will be available for conversations with at least 5 unique repliers. No admin action is required before the rollout.
MAR
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Microsoft Viva Engage: Updates to Community membership approval from email notifications
Microsoft Viva Engage will soon allow community admins to approve multiple membership requests from a centralized page accessed via email notifications. This update applies to various platforms and will roll out in April 2025. No admin action is required, but organizations should review configurations and notify users.
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard Trendline Additions
Copilot Dashboard users can now visualize trends in additional key adoption and impact metrics over time to more quickly identify patterns and opportunities in employee adoption for better licensing decisions. Users will be able to now view Adoption metrics on either a monthly or weekly timeframe for specific groups of interest, as well as deep dive into Impact metrics like Copilot Assisted Hours, Actions Taken, and feature-specific dimensions.
MAR
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Viva Learning – Semantic search support for in-app Searches
Viva Learning is transitioning to an intent-based search, enhancing search results by understanding user queries semantically. This update, rolling out in March 2025, will personalize search experiences and improve content relevance. It affects various Viva Learning surfaces and supports all Viva Learning languages. Curators should enrich content attributes for better results.
Microsoft Viva Engage: External Networks are being modernized
Microsoft Viva Engage will modernize External Networks starting June 1, 2025. Admins must migrate to the new platform or face deprecation and data loss. Key steps include identifying network usage, exporting data, informing users, and checking for updates. Documentation will be provided before March 31, 2025.
MAR
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Microsoft Viva Amplify: Introducing collaborative authoring
Microsoft Viva Amplify will soon support collaborative authoring on the web, allowing multiple campaign members with edit access to work simultaneously on the same document. This feature includes a page presence indicator and options to lock publications. Rollout begins mid-April 2025 for Targeted Release and early May 2025 for General Availability.
MAR
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Microsoft Viva: Group-less campaigns in Viva Amplify
We are streamlining the campaign management experience in Viva Amplify and campaigns will no longer be tied to M365 groups. As such, M365 Group admins will no longer be a required role to configure Viva Amplify and only SharePoint admin role will be required. Also, when you create a campaign, there will no longer be a campaign channel tied to the Viva Amplify campaign, simplifying the campaign creation experience.
Microsoft Viva Learning: “AI
Microsoft Viva Learning will enable the AI and Copilot Resources provider by default for all users starting April 2025. Admins can manage visibility, and the rollout requires no prior admin action. This change will make AI and Copilot Resources accessible to all users, regardless of their Microsoft 365 Copilot license status.
Microsoft Viva Learning: Copilot Academy will be available for all Microsoft 365 users
Microsoft Viva Learning: Copilot Academy will be available to all Microsoft 365 users starting April 2025. Admins can manage access settings. Notifications will be sent to licensed users only. Admins can duplicate Copilot Academy features without a Copilot license. No immediate admin action is required.
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Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Ability to view inferred skills and course recommendations
Learners would be able to select skills for learning, view inferred skills and courses recommendations based on inferred skills. Inferred skills are generated by taking users activity in M365 ecosystem into account.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Report a Conversation in new admin center
Report a Conversation feature configuration will soon be available in the new Engage admin center, moved from the legacy Yammer admin center. This feature allows admins to set-up a reporting mechanism for Engage conversations in their network. There are no changes to the end-user experience.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Support AAD based security groups across Viva learning
Support AAD based security groups across Viva learning.
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Custom user mapping for LMS integration and user sync logs for SAP SuccessFactors
Admins can now specify and edit the user mapping in the LMS setup form. They can also view the latest user profile snapshot in Viva Learning and can also track the historic user profile changes.
Microsoft Viva Engage: Monitoring keywords in the new Communications Dashboard
The Microsoft Viva Engage keyword monitoring feature will move from the Yammer admin center to the new Viva Engage Communications Dashboard’s Advanced moderation experience. This change, affecting various Engage apps, will roll out from mid-April to late June 2025. Admins need to review configurations and may notify users.
Microsoft Viva Glint: Some language codes will retire from translation services
Microsoft Viva Glint will retire some language codes and update localizations starting April 10, 2025. Retired codes will be available until August 31, 2025, after which they will be removed. Admins should update or save custom translations before this date. A subscription to Microsoft Viva Suite or Viva Glint is required.
Microsoft Viva Engage: New Moderation agent
Microsoft Viva Engage is introducing a new Moderation agent for network admins and corporate communicators to monitor custom themes and keywords using AI technology. This feature will be available from mid-April to late June 2025 and requires a Microsoft Viva license. No admin action is needed before the rollout.
Microsoft Viva Engage: New Communications Dashboard
Microsoft Viva Engage is launching a new Communications Dashboard for corporate communicators, network admins, and higher-level roles. The rollout starts mid-April 2025 and completes by late June 2025. New features include enhanced campaign management, analytics, and moderation tools. No admin action is required before the rollout.
Microsoft Viva Pulse: Admins can configure access to Pulse templates for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users
Admins can configure access to new Microsoft Viva Pulse templates for Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users. This feature, available from late March to mid-April 2025, allows admins to manage template access and review content. No action is required before the rollout, but reviewing configurations and notifying users is recommended.
Viva Pulse – Admin Export all tenant and report data from Pulse
Admins can now export all tenant and report data from Viva Pulse to a .csv file, with one active export job at a time. This feature will be available worldwide by late March 2025. Admins can access the export feature from the manage tab on the Viva Pulse homepage. More details can be found [here](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?rtc=1%26filters%3D&searchterms=407636).
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