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- EmilyPerina
Community Manager
That’s a wrap! Thank you for joining our Microsoft Viva Connections AMA today! We appreciate all the great questions and hope you learned something new! I'll be locking this event to new questions, but our experts will still be able to respond to any unanswered questions. Stay tuned for more Microsoft Viva Connections news!
For any other questions about Connections, head to the Viva Connections - Microsoft Community Hub!
- EmilyPerinaHow do I set up additional VC experiences?
- We have recently centralized the setup and management of Connections experiences along with the Home sites under Viva Administration in Microsoft 365 Admin Center. A global IT admin or a SharePoint tenant admin can access this new functionality under Setup-->Microsoft Viva-->Viva Connections to create and manage multiple Connections experiences. Check out this learn document to learn more about the setup and administration of Connections experiences: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/set-up-admin-center
- EmilyPerinaWhat is the new “Announcements” option available on Viva Connections?
- NancyH2
Microsoft
Announcements feature will allow corporate communicators to target important communications like urgent announcements, role-specific updates, safety policy changes with employees in Viva Connections. These announcements can be set up and managed from your organization’s SharePoint home site or the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop. Announcements will be viewable to users using desktop, tablet, and mobile experiences through Viva Connections. These important messages are delivered through push notifications on mobile and tablet devices.
- NancyH2https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/announcements-viva-connections- This doc captures more details of Connections announcements feature.
- Are there any plans to expand the current limit of 10 separate Connections home sites/experiences per tenant? Thank you!
- Thanks for your question, Brendan! We are working on increasing the limit to 50 home sites/experiences per tenant in this calendar year. Checkout the roadmap item tracking this, here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=174466
- Great! Thank you so much for your help!
- EmilyPerinaWhat updates have been made to the landing experience for Viva Connections?
- NancyH2We are working on a new version of Viva Connections desktop experience. The refreshed Connections landing experience will offer a more intuitive layout and introduce new features such as branding capabilities, announcements, revamped Resources section, and curated and individually managed links that support icons. This experience will also bring the Feed back into the viewport on your Connections page with a dedicated hero section to highlight organizational news. This phased release moves wayfinding to other Viva apps to the bottom of the dashboard, featuring quick ways for users to navigate to the apps they are licensed for.
- NancyH2
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-viva-october-2023/ba-p/3949788 - Here's our latest blog post that covers additional details of new features coming soon in Viva Connections!
- EmilyPerinaHow do I create a custom card for my dashboard?
Luca BandinelliThanks for asking! You actually have a couple of options here: as a dashboard operator you can use the CardDesigner to build a card that shows static information and you have full control of the quick view thanks to the power of Adaptive Card. Operators can also use Teams app cards to "deep link" to existing Teams applications. If you need more control and full integration with external APIs or existing solutions, you can build what is called an "Adaptive Card Extension" using SharePoint Framework. We are also about to release the ability to have card views and quick views powered by a bot built using the Microsoft bot Framework. More information here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/viva/get-started/build-first-sharepoint-adaptive-card-extension https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/announcing-public-preview-of-bot-framework-powered-viva-connections-extensibility/
- EmilyPerina
What new cards are available for Viva Connections and what are their capabilities?
- We are recently announced new cards coming to Viva Connections including: News card, People search card. Check out this blog post we recently published. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-viva-october-2023/ba-p/3949788
- EmilyPerina
Welcome to the Microsoft Viva Connections Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA)! This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions directly to the Microsoft team.
Please post any questions in a separate, new comment thread on this event. Thanks!
- Luca BandinelliHello everyone! This is Luca from the Viva Connections product team. Ask your questions here!
Tejas MehtaHello everyone! This is Tejas from the Viva Connections product team. I'm also looking forward to a great AMA session with you all!- Good day, all! Leslie here from the Viva Connections product team. Also looking forward to engaging with you all during the session!
- Do you plan to make more pre-configured adaptive cards (especially 3rd-party cards like Workday, SAP etc.) available?
- We are always looking to add new partner cards, such as Workday and SAP cards. Unfortunately, we do not have any timelines as to when we'll have Workday or SAP available. However, here is a link to a list of partners we currently have available https://cloudpartners.transform.microsoft.com/resources/viva-app-integration
Preeti1910Question: Is this event open for external users like our customers also?- EmilyPerina
Preeti1910 Yes! This event is public and open to customers. I believe I responded to your email this morning but let me know if you have any other questions.
