Viva Connections public preview is now available!

[Brad McCabe]

Modern organizations need ways to connect their employees and bring together the numerous tools and applications they use to keep their businesses moving forward. Earlier this month, we announced new experiences coming to Viva Connections. Today, these experiences are available for public preview.  

Install Viva Connections today 

Viva Connections is now available for desktop and mobile through the Teams app store. Install and customize this new employee app within Microsoft Teams by following the guidance here.  

This release includes:  

• Viva Connections mobile  
• Updated Viva Connections desktop 
• Dashboard web part 
• Feed web part 

Learn more about what’s included in this public preview release.  

Join us at Microsoft Ignite in November to learn more about Viva Connections. Register now!  

- Brad McCabe, director on the Microsoft Viva team

[Kurt Shintaku]

Is this available in GCC?  If not, when?
Thank you!
(@Seth Patton)

[Patrick Drews]

My experience after adding Viva Connections, if you are in Public Preview for MS Teams, viva connections does not appear.  When you turn off Public Preview, then it will be in your app bar.   Anyone else see this experience?  Is this expected @Brad McCabe ?

[LindsayAddie]

@Patrick Drews 

I had the same experience as yourself re MS Teams and Public Preview.

[Paula Flores]

@Patrick Drews we are not in public preview of Teams and it does not appear for me. 

[Mattias Skog]

@Patrick Drews, I'm also experiencing the same problem as you. If Public Preview is enabled Viva Connections, and Bookings app, will not show up in the desktop client. I made an service request to Microsoft regarding this but got a really disappointing answer. This is the answer I got:

"Since Public Preview feature and Public Preview mode are just provided for test purpose, there is no official support for this. We can redirect user to free Forum support for any inquiries about Public Preview."

So, seems like Microsoft have no interest in solving the issue. Shame on you Microsoft!

[Alessio Ferioli]

Thanks for these great news and for the attention you are putting to improve the employee experience for a hybrid digital workplace.

A question related to ACE cards and custom development on Viva services: Are you planning to develop / create a sort of self service model to manage active cards extension in order to create a sort of "portal" where it is the employee who can choose which cards to add personalizing the content to improve user experience? 

[PrerakDesai]

What is the official version of the newly released Viva Connection app ?
Not Working Mobile experience
In one of my tenant I see version (1.0.3) where app is not showing up in mobile experience. 

Working Mobile experience

Can anyone guide which is the latest app ?

[Jerome_K]

@PrerakDesai we currently have version is v 1.0.1 on our tenant and it shows up in mobile version (Android, don't know about iOS). It was visible on the "..." (more) button, then you can reorganize the default icons and pin it to first position

[PrerakDesai]

ok.. So that is the same behavior I experience on one of my tenant with version 1.0.1
So app with version 1.0.3 is not working. Is there anything we have to do for it to get corrected

[Aaron Samuel]

Hey guys! We have been using Viva Connections since day one in my org. The past 48 hours we have been having issues with the Feed for Viva Connections (Preview) Web Part on our SharePoint homesite. It keeps throwing the error below to all users. We've tried different things like removing and readding the webpart to resetting the site as the homesite but still nothing. No issues on the mobile app the, everything loads fine there. Anyone else experiencing this?

[Jerome_K]

@Aaron Samuel same for me on our tenant, the feed is not working today when displayed on a web page, although it was working fine yesterday. 

[Jerome_K]

@Aaron Samuel the feed for viva connections web part is working today

[Bart_Van_Eynde_2100]

on mobile (Android phone), when you open a resource (either from the Dashboard, Feed, or Resources-section) it's working fine; the article/page opens perfectly but any other resource item you open afterwards doesn't load. I end up with an empty page, with only the back-button and the site title.

[dhruvilP29]

Hi Team,
I have setup the VIVA dashboard in my dev tenant and built custom cards which I am able to add successfully. 

But I don't see the card designer when I edit the dashboard. the same is available in my colleague's dev tenant. The difference in our setup is that, on my tenant, I created it once it came to public preview and they created it using power shell. 

I also see the card designer being used in many community call demos. Is there any specific configuration required to enable the card designer?

Note: The same behavior has been observed in few other tenants which configured the VIVA dashboard after public preview.

[VictaulicKatK]

I am also trying to set up a dashboard but do not have the card designer available either. It was previously available in preview versions. 

[Astrid]

We are using the Viva connections feed web part on SharePoint. Unfortunately, we are no longer able to change the title and it now says "Feed for Viva Connections". The title is very confusing for our employees because they have absolutely no clue what Viva connections is. Is this a bug?

[Jerome_K]

@Astrid same for me. I can edit the Web Part title but the change is not saved. This looks like a bug