Easy access of Viva Connections
We are excited to share a new feature to provide more integrated experience between Viva Connections and SharePoint, by exposing Viva Connections features directly in the SharePoint app bar.
When Viva Connections have been configured in the tenant, there will be easy quick links exposed in the SharePoint app bar to access the Viva Connections experience easily.
Initially app bar will expose three links as follows:
- Dashboard - This will link to the personalized dashboard in the Viva Connections
- News - This will directly link to the Viva Connections news experience to easily access latest updates within the tenant
- Resources - This will link to the resources section of the Viva Connections landing page
Viva Connections acts as a company branded front door to employee experiences that allows them to access important apps, tools, resources in one place, surfaces the most important news/updates and enables them to take quick action on work related tasks.
Features and capabilities mentioned in this blog post, are demonstrated in the following video with Cathrine Chuaga (Microsoft) and Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft).
Frequently asked questions
When will this happen?
This blog post refers to following Microsoft 365 Roadmap item, which should be fully available for customers worldwide in March 2025. Rollout started for first customers during February 2025:
What do you need to prepare?
You do not need to do anything to prepare for this update, but you may want to let your users know about this new capability. Feature will be automatically enabled for all customers and Viva Connections will be automatically shown as an icon in the app bar, if it has been configured.
What is next?
We will be continuously evolving the Viva Connection experiences also in future to provide new capabilities and cards for our customers to take advantage. We are looking on multiple other ways to get the SharePoint and Viva Connections experience more closely integrated together.
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