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- EmilyPerina
Community Manager
That’s a wrap! Thank you for joining our Microsoft Viva Topics AMA: lightweight management in Viva Engage! 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 Topics news!
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- EmilyPerina
Suppose we decide on activating the trial version of Viva Topic in our productive tenant -> this means, we have to configure the whole shebang of Viva Topics even for the ones, who only wish to administrate topics in Viva Engage?
- Yi_Han
Microsoft
When configuring Viva Topics, you always configure the whole shebang. As it needs to index everything: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/topics/set-up-topic-experiences - That is correct, although the setup process does not take long.
- EmilyPerina
What will happen, when the trial expires, will then the experience for the Viva Engage admins switch back to the "lightweight experience"?
- Yi_HanAs for what happens when the trial runs out, the Viva engage admins will be switched back to lightweight experience: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/topics/topics-lightweight-management
- That is correct.
- EmilyPerinaWho can manage topics? How can they be granted proper permission?
- The user must be granted Knowledge Manager permissions by an admin in the Admin Center.
- EmilyPerina
How can I purchase a Topics license or get a trial?
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/topics/trial-topics
- We currently use Viva Engage, but we do not have a viva topics license. Do we have to purchase Viva topics to be able to manage/delete Viva engage topics?
- You can continue to manage topics in Engage without an additional licenses, but if you want the added functionality of Viva Topics you will need a license for that.
- This post implies that you don't need a Viva topics license for Lightweight management. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/viva-topics-blog/july-2023-introducing-viva-topics-lightweight-management-in-viva/ba-p/3865972
- EmilyPerina
Will topics created in Viva Engage be accessible in other M365 apps? Will we be able to manually create topics in other apps?
- What type of license is required?
- Yi_Han
You can enable advanced topics experiences and AI technology to enhance the central knowledge base in your organization by:
- purchasing a license: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-viva/topics
- running a trial: Run a trial of Microsoft Viva Topics | Microsoft Learn
- A Viva Topics license.
- Hi Emily, hi Eric, we do have a full license of Viva Topics and Viva Engage. My understanding is, that the topics created in Engage are not part of of the data crawling by the AI in Topics due to the lacking connectors right now. Am I right with this assumption? When the engage connector in topics will be available are already created topics from the past in engage part of the crawling? Thanks in advance Raoul
- Thanks a lot
Topics that are manually created in Engage or were manually created pre-migration become full Viva Topics. The AI is not crawling the metadata in Engage to discover new topics, however, but this will happen by the end of the CY.
- What is the meaning of "pre migration" from your perspective?
- EmilyPerina
Welcome to the Microsoft Viva Topics Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) for lightweight management in Viva Engage! 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!
