As part of our ongoing mission to deliver secure, modern, and integrated employee experiences, we’re excited to announce the final step in our evolution to a fully unified Viva Engage platform. This milestone marks our complete transition to a streamlined, future-ready environment that enhances performance, usability, and security across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
This shift enables Viva Engage to scale with organizational needs and meet the highest standards for security, compliance, and performance. By retiring legacy components and embracing modern architecture, we are aligning with Microsoft design principles and operational best practices. Here is what’s new:
Modernized User Settings and Communities Experience
We've introduced a redesigned user settings experience with clearer navigation, and simplified notification controls. Users will enjoy a more intuitive layout that mirrors other Microsoft 365 experiences to manage profile information and communication preferences.
In addition, the experience for updating community information and managing membership approvals has been overhauled. Community admins can now more easily edit descriptions through a streamlined flow, and member approval processes have been improved with enhanced email notifications—making it faster and simpler to manage community participation.
Streamlined Admin Experience
The refreshed Engage admin center offers a centralized way for admins to customize tenant options, set usage policy, manage sentiment analysis and feature analytics, and more. Additional capabilities are on the horizon, including tools for reporting conversations and assigning network and verified admin roles.
Retirement of the Legacy Yammer Admin Center
The legacy Yammer admin center will be retired, and its core functionalities are being moved into the Engage admin center. This unified admin experience will serve as the single destination for network admins, corporate communicators, and Engage admins to perform all their administrative tasks.
External Networks
Modern external networks are coming soon! These networks are a crucial component for many organizations that collaborate beyond company boundaries, such as working with partners, customers, or alumni. Because of the breadth and complexity of changes involved, we’ll be covering this topic in more detail in a separate, dedicated blog post to provide clearer guidance and support for customers navigating the transition.
Features being deprecated
As we continue modernizing Engage, some legacy features will be phased out. These features were originally designed for an older Yammer architecture that no longer supports our modern communications and leadership platform or meet our current security standards. Notable features include private content mode and the third-party application registration experience.
This transformation will be complete by end of June 2025. This is a pivotal moment in our journey to empower people and teams to connect and engage in meaningful ways. With Viva Engage, we're laying a modern foundation that enhances user experience and management capabilities and ensures stronger security and compliance posture across the board.
We appreciate your partnership as we bring this next generation of Viva Engage to life. More updates and resources will follow—including our deep dive into the external networks modernization—so stay connected!
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