Viva Engage | The New Community Experience in Microsoft Teams

Bring organizations together to engage across both personal and professional interests with Microsoft Viva Engage, a new experience in Teams and Outlook. The shift to hybrid workplaces has made it harder for employees to connect, engage, and build communities within their internal network. If you’re new to Viva Engage, it’s the evolution of the Yammer Communities app integrated in Microsoft Teams and will be coming soon to Outlook.

We’ll show you how it helps build communities within your internal network, and how you can share experiences and insights with the new Storyline capability using Stories - short videos and pictures that allow you to capture and share key moments. And take a look at a new feature called Answers that helps everyone find answers to their questions and receive guidance from experts across their organization.

Michael Holste, Sr. Product Manager at Microsoft, demonstrates how Viva Engage helps your organization stay connected using familiar tools and platforms.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:28 - Core Experiences
01:50 - Using the New Storyline Capability
02:55 - First Look at Premium Features
03:40 - Leadership Corner
04:41 - Social Campaigns
05:11 - Answers Hub
06:22 - Top IT Considerations/Questions
07:28 - Wrap Up

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[DeployJeremy]

Great to work with Michael Holste, Dan Holme and team on this! The upcoming Q&A capabilities are going to be good. And my favorite part is that leadership comms support DLs, Security Groups and Microsoft 365 Groups (too often it's just one of those).

[gabrielaelgorriaga]

Amazing, Great Capabilities! I'm looking forward to get all those features in my tenant! I can image how powerful will be in our organizations

[maartenvisser]

Great to see how Viva Engage will make it easlier to build Knowledge communities.
And great video Mike, pretty smooth at a high pace :)

[syedahmed]

Good start in the right direction to make hybrid work lot engaged and healthier

[mahnoor]

Could someone please confirm whether these new features are part of the recent upgrade, or if a new license purchase is required? We currently utilize Viva Engage as an extension of our Outlook, and it's crucial for us to understand the specifics.

[arjunkumar]

when we create a new viva engage community, does it creates a new M365 group in back end?

[laetitialm]

Could you tell us what happened to the initial Analytics part? It's really important to have tools that allow us to prevent exhaustion and burn out in teams. The way I see this, viva is only some enhanced Yammer, especially when my company already has a top quality app to share knowledge and ask questions.

[soul]

And is Viva Engage usable for anyone on an F1 license?

[dorlagrant]

Can I use Viva engage for students to connect with each other, especially for technology support?

[alekarpy]

when will these updates arrive? we still don't have them in our company.

[robinbylenga]

Is there anyone / a person that I can speak with? I have questions I cannot find answers for...