Hi everyone,

My high level need is to continue providing access to Engage to all users but limit them to read only mode. Any strategy that would result in preventing creation of posts, upload of content, creation of communities, etc that limits users to viewing the already existing content works as well.

I do not think that there is a scriptable way currently to add all network / tenant users in the View-Only Engage mode. That is unfortunate because I feel this would have been the easiest way to accomplish this.

I thought about changing all communities posting permissions to restricted and preventing "Yammer Admin Center\Configuration\File Upload Permissions".

Anyone else has recommendations? Thanks!

We’d like to understand the usage of Copilot in a specific region on our organization, but a big stopper is the fact that HR needs to be uploading employee data periodically. We can’t use Microsoft Entra ID because there’s no way to tell if the data comes from Europe or LATAM or NA. Is there anyway to automate this? maybe with Power Shell and crossing it with our HR database uploaded to Azure that includes region information?

I would like to since or add somehow Engage chat with existing SharePoint. I dont want to create new email and SharePoint for each group in Engage

Sorry in advance if this is a newbie question, but my org hasn't really done anything with Viva and suddenly now we are. Is there a way to get an org-wide rollup of the data shown to individual users in Microsoft 365 > Viva > Insights > Productivity > Meeting Habits? If so, where do I look and if I have to turn that on how do I turn it on?

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I'm looking at running one for my organisation but we haven't used this platform before so I'm after any tips. Our target audience are our internal staff members. To the best of my knowledge we've never done an AMA before of any type.

Gave a manager admin rights to Goals. They can get into admin, but don't see the option to add a time period. They want to add 2025.

According to MS, it should be simple and straight forward. But knowing MS, I am not sure this info is up to date. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/goals/managing-okr-time-periods#add-a-time-period

They claim they cannot see the Add a Time Period section.

Hi

Trying to assign a course to a user VIA Graph using the learningCourseAtivities. The course is in the online SharePoint provider. Best I can get is an error stating that the provider needs to have sync enabled. Actual error " Make sure the provider has course activity sync enabled to ingest courseactivities". The SharePoint provider has this greyed out as it is not a true LMS.

If any Graph guru is out there and got this to work, a heads up would be appreciated.

Suddenly we are seeing our News posts on SharePoint invade Teams activity feeds. Like it has to do with Viva Connections News Notifications (Viva Connections News Notifications | Microsoft Learn) but finding org-wide settings for turning this on and off has been challenging.

"Johnny published news..." in the Team Activity feed.

Originally it was thought that it was related to the Viva Connections experiences, but unrelated it seems or a very, very slow rollout of setting changes.

Anyone found ways to potentially turn these off without nuking all the notifications for users, without forcefully uninstalling the Viva Connections app from Teams clients, and without having it be a manual process for each user?

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I'm at a bit of a loss here.. Our ability to utilize the 'Announcements' feature in Microsoft Viva Connections has been gone for the past 2+ months (can't recall when it started). We have our home site connected as the only experience in the Viva Connections app. We were initially playing around with the Announcements feature in the Connections app, and one day the option to Manage Announcements simply vanished.

Any ideas or suggestions on how I can fix this? I have not been able to find any other instance of this online. Maybe I'm missing something totally obvious. I am an owner of the home site in both Viva Connections and Sharepoint, and have Sharepoint and Teams admin access.

We're getting ready to launch Viva Engage at the same time as our new intranet. But after looking at how Engage sets up it's own sharepoint site with each community, does it even make sense to set up similar sharepoint communication sites?

For example.

We'll have a sharepoint communication site for a subsidiary and a matching Engage community.

How are those two different and where do they overlap? Our employees are quick hitters when it comes to intranet usage- get what they need and get out. Engage will be an entirely new way for them to communicate with each other so we want to make sure we 'get them where they are'.

What's the best strategy when using these two together?

I have a supervisor who wants all the community members to forcibly recieve emails with an end of the day summary of posts from his Viva engage community. From what I can find all the settings are per user and configured soley by that user. does anyone know if or how the seetings can be pushed and enforced whether is be by group policy or any other means? The other way I am loking at is creating a power automate flow, but that's rather clunky compared the what's already built in. Any ideas?

Hi Viva community,

I wanted to know how realistic would it be to use Pulse and Glint for an employee review system?

We would be using it for 30, 60, 90 and biannual reviews.

What we want is an easy way for every employee to take reviews and allow access to only relevant parties with the exception being senior leaders and HR.

Can anyone tell me what constitutes a view on Viva Engage? I’ve seen the Microsoft definition, but does a view mean someone has actually seen or read a specific post or could it mean they have scrolled past it on their feed?

I realize that Microsoft is killing the Viva Topics app, but are topics in Viva Engage the same? We want to use Viva Engage for Communities of Practice and would like a way to categorize topics. I'm having difficulty using the current Topics feature, can't find where to delete old topics that appear when trying to select a Topic, and hashtags seem unavailable. Thanks!

We already have Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint. How would my work benefit from having yet another internal communications platform? I need less messaging and more time heads down doing actual work. Can anyone provide a value proposition for using MS Viva when I'm already using the other three MS communication tools?

You can enhance employee connections and foster collaboration within your organisation by leveraging Viva Engage, a Microsoft Teams app powered by Yammer. This innovative tool enables the creation of employee communities and facilitates meaningful conversations, ensuring effective communication and teamwork.

You can join discussions, u/mention co-workers, pin conversations, and build engaging dialogues across various channels.

You can take surveys, join discussions through hashtag campaigns and Ask Me Anything sessions (AMAs), and connect with new leaders throughout the organisation.

Reference is taken from the blog post:

https://www.aztechit.co.uk/blog/get-to-know-microsoft-viva

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Hi guys. I'm setting up Viva Glint for our first engagement survey. It's been pretty painful up until now after using other survey platforms in the past but I'm finally nearly there. The one thing I can't figure out is how to enable external benchmarks on my survey. This page tells you to enable it, but doesn't say where you can find the toggle. Anyone got the answer please?

In the Viva Learning Admin Page, after you add LinkedIn Learning as a provider, when toggling the Seamless Login toggle, a configuration page is brought up. In this configuration page it says:

Integrate LinkedIn Learning with Viva Learning:

Step 1: Get the web URL From LinkedIn Learning configuration page and paste below.

When clicking that link, it sends you to: https://www.linkedin.com/learning-admin/settings/authentication/viva which immediately redirects to the main LinkedIn Learning Admin page.

Does anyone have a link to the correct Viva Learning configuration page in the LinkedIn Learning Admin center to complete this configuration? Or was this functionality removed?

Thanks in Advance.

Has employee recognition been released within Viva or is it on the roadmap? To be specific, I’m asking about the ability for one employee to recognize and/or thank another employee who did something special and aligned to company values, etc.

Researching online I’ve found a couple of references to it but nothing definitive; demos, etc.

If emails are read using iPhone outlook app do they count as read in Viva insights?

I know it's almost 2024, and having the most basic of tools would be considered waaay beyond the scope of any Microsoft product.

I just want to add a group to our All Company community. The group is created. The community is created. How do I add. The Group. To the. Community.

I've set up Sharepoint as a source as an Admin in the Teams Viva Learning App, and populated the Learning App Content Repository list to point to the folder in the Sharepoint site. I've ensured that the permissions for the files in that folder are shared to M365 groups.

However, i am unable to get Sharepoint to appear as a provider in my Teams Viva Learning app. The site itself is not new - it was created a few weeks ago. The sync logs say that the sync is successful.

What am I missing?

Does anyone knows that what happens with the funcion of Viva apps (M365 premium) during the “experied” period? Will there be any limitation from function perspective?

Signed up for a Viva Goals trial (I am the IT admin at our company) and was hoping to find a way to display our Goals in SharePoint. Apparently that isn't possible, but I did notice there is a Power BI integration (and Sharepoint has a Power BI webpart). However, when I go to the Viva Admin settings / integration, I see only Teams, Excel Online, and Planner. Is this because I am on a Trial that I can't see Power BI?

EDIT: I have a Power BI Pro license already.

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