September brings practical updates that help you support survey participants, simplify administration, and keep up with changes across Viva Glint. This edition covers new Copilot experiences and survey improvements available this month, along with an early look at reporting and administration capabilities planned for upcoming releases.
New on your Viva Glint platform
This section highlights new capabilities now available on your Viva Glint platform this month.
Handling data for deleted users. Starting October 1, 2026, we restarted the live processing of user delete signals received via Microsoft Entra as well as the processing of the delete signals that were generated since the beginning of the related planned maintenance window in June 2025. Users who were deleted from Microsoft Entra since June 2025 will be processed in Viva Glint and their data will be retained or deleted based on the user data configurations for your Viva Glint instance. Admins can now choose to retain a user's email address and employee ID after that user is removed from Glint, preserving historical reporting accuracy. Delete user data from Viva Glint | Microsoft Learn
Copilot in Viva Glint: Admin Assistant. The first phase of the Viva Glint Admin Assistant is now generally available for commercial customers. Grounded in Microsoft Learn content and best practices, it provides contextual, step-by-step guidance for configuration tasks so you can complete common setup work without switching between the product and documentation. Coaching and action-taking capabilities are planned for future phases, and availability for government cloud environments is planned for future release.
Survey administration: Multiple-choice list questions. You can now upload option lists from a CSV file when creating multiple-choice questions, with support for multilingual lists and up to 500 options. Survey participants can search and filter longer lists before selecting one or more responses, making complex questions easier to configure and complete. For more information see Multi-choice list questions.
Product updates: In-product announcement access. Service administrators can now use a new announcement icon in the Viva Glint header to reach existing product updates, newsletters, and community posts. This gives you a more direct way to find information about recently released capabilities without first locating the relevant update channel. Stay updated with the Viva Glint newsletter | Microsoft Learn.
Copilot in Viva Glint: Support for survey comments. Rolling out at the end of September for survey types other than 360s, authenticated survey participants can use Copilot to rewrite all or part of an open-text response when the experience is enabled by their organization. It can help people refine their wording and reduce recognizable writing patterns, supporting more confident and candid feedback while preserving the participant's intended meaning. Access to the feature is controlled by the new “Copilot in Viva Glint Survey Taking” VFAM control which is defaulted to an “OFF” state. Rewrite Comments with Copilot in Viva Glint | Microsoft Learn.
Survey experience: Clearer navigation and automatic comment saving. Survey comments now save automatically as participants type, reducing the risk of lost feedback if a session is interrupted. A single Next button replaces separate Skip and Done actions, and updated scrolling keeps participants at the question they are editing instead of moving them unexpectedly to the end of the survey. These changes apply automatically, including surveys already in progress, and require no configuration or admin action.
Improvements for Glint integration with Microsoft 365 Organizational Data Service: Clearer oversight of imports and configuration changes (Public Preview). You can now trace organizational-data imports with a consistent ingestion ID across activity logs, downloaded advisory and summary files, email notifications, and the validation experience. Audit events for imports data management enhanced to provide greater visibility into integration configuration changes, including downloadable details where available.
Coming soon to Viva Glint
The following section offers an early look at capabilities coming to Glint in upcoming releases.
Continuous Engagement administration | Private preview in October. Private preview customers will be able to map survey questions to eligible workplace metrics directly in a simplified administration flow. A guided setup experience and summary page will reduce manual coordination and give administrators more control over which contextual metrics managers can review alongside survey results.
Multi-attribute report exports | Private preview in October. We are extending Viva Glint's multi-attribute export beyond admins to managers, leaders, analysts, and HRBPs, so they can export filtered, grouped, cross-dimensional data (e.g., department + location + tenure) outside the app for flexible, personalized analysis. This will be available for Private Preview in October. Express interest to join preview here: Viva Glint Multi-Attribute Export – Private Preview Sign-Up form
Program setup: Required-field indicators | Generally available in October. Visual indicators will identify required fields throughout program setup, with clearer treatment when a required value is missing. The update will help you understand what each step requires before moving forward, without changing which fields are required or optional.
Glint integration with Microsoft 365 Organizational Data Service | Generally available in October. This capability will be available for all customers including GCC-M and customers with multiple instances of Viva Glint. GA release will enhance the capability with upload email notification management and enhanced user experience.
Sign Up for Survey Owners Can View Survey Results by 2nd Oct | Private Preview. Survey Owners will automatically get access to the results of the surveys they own, without gaining broader access to other surveys in the tenant. Today, this access is largely role-based, often requiring survey creators to get special roles or admin help just to view their own results. With this feature, ownership moves to the survey level: owners can be assigned individually or by group, and access is scoped only to the surveys they own, with no extra administrative privileges. Private Preview is open now to participate use the link here.
Action taking analysis report | Private Preview. A long-requested capability for listening program leaders will provide a report showing which leaders and managers have accessed their survey results and whether they've gone on to take action, such as holding team conversations. Instead of guessing whether results are landing, program owners will be able to see engagement directly and target support where follow-through is lagging. Private Preview is open now to a limited group of customers, with the opportunity to give feedback ahead of Public Preview. Express your interest here.
See our public roadmap for more feature updates.
Events and learning opportunities
Recent EECC Customer Engagement Sessions:
September 24th – Viva Glint Multi-Attribute and Comments Report Exports: Current Capabilities and Improvements on the Roadmap
Target Audience: Viva Glint admins, HRBPs, analysts, managers, and leaders
We invited EECC customers to discuss how Viva Glint's Multi-Attribute Report and Comments Report exports work today, along with a preview of where we're taking both. The session drew 45 live attendees representing 24 customer organizations, spanning healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail and logistics, and professional services.
The conversation opened with a candid look at how customers use exports today, then moved into a live demo of upcoming Multi-Attribute Report changes and a design-stage preview of Comments export enhancements. Customers weighed in throughout on confidentiality safeguards, missing data dimensions, and gaps in in-app reporting.
Key takeaways:
Today's Multi-Attribute Report Export is admin-only and limited to three attributes and 12,000 value combinations. Several customers said the current output is difficult to read and interpret, leading many to rely on raw data exports and custom scripts instead. The planned update will open export access to non-admin roles under admin-controlled permissions, remove the three-attribute cap, raise the row ceiling to roughly one million, and add question-level filtering. A private preview is targeted for mid to late October.
Customers were especially eager for in-app heat map and cross-tab views, such as comparing engagement scores by location and gender, rather than exporting and manually recombining data. Presenters flagged this as valuable input for future roadmap consideration.
For Comments export, customers requested additional attribution dimensions, including worker type and region, while preserving group-level confidentiality suppression. Feedback was mixed on how broadly to open attribute-level access, with some customers preferring it remain limited to HR and analyst roles rather than extending to all managers.
Connect with us
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The Employee Experience Customer Connection (EECC) program offers our customers an opportunity to be part of a feedback community as employee experiences continue to evolve with Viva and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
What the program provides:
- Product team engagement for Employee Experiences powered by Viva and M365Copilot
- Forums for you to influence product direction & unlock value for your organization
- Early insight into product roadmap
- Private preview engagement opportunities
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