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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – November 2025
As we come to the end of the year, I’m seriously considering whether it’s worth continuing a separate roundup for Microsoft Viva. Updates have become fewer each month, and most of them are already covered in the other roundups I publish. Nonetheless, from the few announcements this month, here are my highlights.
First, Viva Amplify introduces a new publishing stack with improved error handling. This enhancement aims to make content publishing more reliable and efficient, reducing friction for communication teams and ensuring messages reach the right audience without unnecessary delays.
On the engagement side, Viva Engage received improvements to community feeds. These updates focus on making interactions smoother and more intuitive, helping communities stay active and connected with less effort. While small, these refinements contribute to a better overall experience for users who rely on Viva for collaboration and engagement.
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Explore how Copilot is making a difference in your organization through Viva Engage posts that users have shared. The Copilot Dashboard showcases real-world success stories, user-shared excitement about new Copilot features, and vibrant community discussions. These examples offer a qualitative view into how Copilot is driving productivity and engagement across your tenant, directly in the Copilot Dashboard. #CopilotControlSystem
Updating analytics related to frequent contributors to include more metrics and an enhanced design.
Stay connected to your team’s engagement with Viva Insights Workplace Metrics, available alongside your survey results in Viva Glint. Between survey cycles, leaders and managers can use these continuous, real-time metrics to see how their team is working and evaluate whether actions they are taking to improve engagement are having the desired impact. This feature currently supports work-life balance and collaboration metrics, with more areas planned in the future.
Microsoft Viva Amplify is launching a new publishing stack by late 2025, replacing the legacy system with faster, parallelized publishing (~16 seconds) and improved error handling. The update enhances reliability across SharePoint, Viva Engage, Outlook, and Teams, is on by default, and requires no admin action.
Microsoft Viva Glint admins will soon be able to delete custom user attributes directly within the platform, improving data accuracy and reducing support dependency. This feature, rolling out worldwide in mid-December 2025, requires admins to review and update attribute management processes accordingly.
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Viva Glint’s data retention policy now retains customer data indefinitely while the subscription is active or per tenant-configured policies. This update applies immediately to tenants without existing retention policies. No action is needed if a policy is already set; otherwise, submit a support request to configure it.
Viva Amplify will retire High Privilege Access for Teams distribution, switching from App-only tokens to Protected Forwarded Tokens by November 2025. This enhances security without affecting user experience or requiring tenant configuration changes. No admin action is needed; update documentation and inform support teams accordingly.
Microsoft Viva Engage introduces flexible, precise audience targeting for Storyline Announcements, allowing leaders to define custom audiences using organizational attributes, groups, or individuals at posting time. Public preview starts mid-November 2025; general availability begins February 2026. Requires premium licensing and accurate organizational data.
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As part of our ongoing efforts to simplify and modernize the Viva Connections experience, we will retire the Assignments and Courses adaptive card extensions (ACEs) for Education customers. ACEs are modular components built using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) that allow developers to create rich, interactive dashboard cards in Viva Connections. These cards surface data and actions from Microsoft 365 services or custom sources, helping users engage with content directly from their dashboard. The equivalent SharePoint dashboard webparts will also be retired. This change is intended to streamline the experience and reduce redundancy across platforms.
Users will soon be able to update their Viva Engage storyline cover photos directly from the Teams iOS app. This feature, already on other platforms, will roll out worldwide in early December 2025, is enabled by default, requires no admin action, and has no compliance concerns.
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The Publish reports feature in Microsoft Viva Insights is generally available from December 2025, allowing analysts to share embedded Power BI reports or custom links with their organization. Insight admins control publishing permissions, and recipients get email notifications and see reports in the Viva Insights web app. Teams app access and notifications will be removed.
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Viva Engage communities will default to viewing conversations by recent posts instead of recent activity starting January 2026. The new view is on by default, includes unread indicators in all feeds, and preserves user preferences across communities. No action or compliance changes are needed.
Starting November 24, 2025, Microsoft Viva Engage will support manual multi-language post creation on the web, allowing premium users to publish posts in up to 41 languages. Readers see posts in their locale, with support across Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and mobile. Attachments must be reuploaded per language.
Starting December 2025, Microsoft Viva Engage will change featured conversations in public communities to be elevated only for community members, not all users with access. This improves relevance and reduces noise. No changes affect private communities, all-company, or admin actions. No admin configuration needed.
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Users will be able to search for Viva Engage conversations directly in the Viva Engage app for Teams.
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Starting December 2025, Viva Insights and Copilot Analytics user exclusions will shift from list-based management to Viva Feature Access Management (VFAM) policies. Existing exclusions migrate automatically; admins will use VFAM for future exclusions. No immediate action is needed, but admins should prepare for this update.
Viva Engage in Microsoft Teams mobile will gain a new conversation search feature, rolling out from mid-November 2025 to early January 2026. This default-enabled update improves content discoverability on mobile, requires no admin action, and affects users accessing Viva Engage via Teams mobile only.
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Engages theme moderation feature is a powerful AI tool to monitor and moderate content. With this update, images can now match to themes, just like text.
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