News to Know - Volume 2, Edition 5, July 2025
To help you get the most out of the Viva Glint product, this July 2025 newsletter is full of need-to-knows which coincide with the last three months of platform deployments and enhancements. Important update: These newsletters will no longer be sent directly to your email. For all future and past monthly editions, please continue to visit this Viva Glint blog. Stay up-to-date on what features are ahead by visiting the Viva Glint product roadmap. In order to receive notifications for new newsletters, sign in to this space and select the bell+ icon in the top right corner to follow this blog. Then, go to your My Settings and confirm your Follows & Notifications settings. Note: You won't receive emails for new posts unless your email notifications are turned on and you've selected your desired email cadence for "new content posted". New Viva Glint resources The Microsoft Viva Glint Deployment guide is now available! Use this easy-to-follow deployment guide to complete one-time setup tasks and launch your first Glint survey. Download the Viva Glint deployment guide from Viva Glint Learn. Did you miss the May Town Hall? On May 6, 2025, we held a Microsoft Viva Glint Customer Town Hall. Hundreds of customers joined us to catch up on product updates, to learn about our newest thought leadership, and to hear customer success stories. You can read the recap and watch the recording here. New on your Viva Glint platform (so much!) May's release included the following features: Streamline your app and tenant management. The Viva Glint Tenant Administrator is now a built-in Microsoft Entra role. Layer this role with Viva Glint Administrator users so that admins can manage Microsoft 365 admin center settings & support requests, as well as the Viva Glint app. Read more. Self-serve management of the attributes you send to Viva Glint has begun! User data is sent to Viva Glint in your Employee Attribute File. Hierarchy rankings are how we structure and surface the data correctly for use in reporting, role setup, and more. To date, if a change in the name of a hierarchy level was needed, you had to spend time with our support teams. As a next step in making schema setup fully and easily self-serve, admins can now change hierarchy level labels independently. Read more. June's release included the following features: Viva Pulse and Viva Glint integration to support engagement survey follow-up. Now generally available, managers and leaders can follow up on Viva Glint survey results to check in on team progress and address key focus areas to maintain momentum toward improving engagement. With the lightweight Pulse survey tool, managers have access to a template that pulls top opportunities and strengths from their Viva Glint results. For documentation on how to set up the integration, review Take actions with Viva Pulse after Viva Glint engagement surveys and for a detailed overview of this integration, read Harness the power of Viva Glint and Viva Pulse to drive continuous improvements. Self-serve management of your attributes continues with creating new hierarchies. To date, if a change in the hierarchy was needed, you had to spend time with our support teams. Admins are now able to create new hierarchy groups and levels on their own. Read more. Customize user role access in bulk. Previously, when granting custom access within a user role, admins had to configure permissions individually for each user using a complex file configuration process in Advanced Configurations. Now, admins can configure a role with custom access and apply it to multiple users at once. Read more. Enable support users to export People and Reports. When granted permission by the admin, support users have the capability to import and export data on the People page and Reports. Read more about managing support users. Adding cycles to a custom recurring program. When configuring a program using the blank custom recurring program template, survey designers have the capability to add cycles. Read more. July’s release included the following features: Control which users access Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Glint. Now available for all tenants, Microsoft 365 global admins can control Copilot in Viva Glint availability for your organization, groups, or users in the Microsoft 365 admin center. If enabled in the admin center, Viva Glint admins can manage Copilot for Viva Glint at the role level in the Viva Glint app. Learn more about feature access management in Viva. Enable Glint Copilot for Company Admins. The Viva Glint admin (aka Company Admin) can now enable Copilot for their own user role without adding them to another custom role. Within General Settings, toggle this on to enable Copilot for the Company Admin user role across all eligible recurring and ad-hoc survey programs without altering any other Company Admin permissions. Read more. Include missing survey takers. Admins can now add participants to the survey after the survey has gone live. Use this feature by navigating to Survey Programs to generate additional surveys for new participants. Refreshed benchmarks are here! The Global benchmark as well as the associated Top 10% and Top 25% benchmark suites have been refreshed and are now available in the platform. Be sure to opt into benchmarks in the platform to unlock access to benchmarks and associated collateral. Note: collateral will be made available by the end of August 2025. Coming soon to Viva Glint Interact with Copilot in your preferred language | Preview. In Viva Glint, you can now communicate with Copilot in the language that you prefer. If you’re looking for language support in Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, German and French, we invite you to enable Copilot and experience its benefits. Contact us to opt into using this feature. Viva Glint and Viva Insights integration - Workplace Patterns Report in Viva Glint | Preview. Empower your admins and teams with our newest report that highlights the relationships between employee survey scores and workplace activity & collaboration patterns without custom analysis. Enabled for administrators and extendable to other roles, this feature allows users to quickly identify and share actionable insights, enabling faster, data-driven decisions and boosting engagement across your organization. If you’re interested in being part of the private preview and activating this feature to help your teams turn feedback into meaningful action, reach out to us to opt in! Integrating with Organization data | Preview. Unlock the full potential of your HR data with the seamless integration of Viva Glint and Organization data in Microsoft Admin Center. This powerful update revolutionizes data accuracy and efficiency, enabling effortless synchronization across Microsoft 365 and Viva Glint platforms. Experience enhanced flexibility to import your HRIS data via APIs, Azure Blob Store, SuccessFactor connectors etc. Express your interest here. More refreshed benchmarks! The Industry benchmark suite is scheduled to be refreshed next month. Keep an eye out in the coming releases for more updated benchmark suites. Upcoming events and learning opportunities Learning Circles | September 17 Open to all customers, Learning Circles provide time for connection with like-minded industry professionals to grow your understanding and use of Viva and Viva Glint products and services. Register here. Read this blog to learn about our redesigned program based on your feedback. New thought leadership People Success Summer Blog Series. Throughout the summer, the People Science team will be publishing a monthly blog series on new trends and insights related to People Success. For this series, we analyzed survey responses from over 6.8M employees across more than 235 companies from 2022 – 2025 to examine how workers’ expectations have evolved over the past three years. The insights offer a unique perspective on evolving employee priorities, highlighting subtle but meaningful changes in how people think about growth, leadership, and the employee experience. Reimagining People Success in the Age of AI Rebuilding Trust in the Workplace Before It’s Too Late Connect with us Join the Viva Customer Connection Program (VCCP). Viva Customer Connection Program (VCCP) is Microsoft’s premier customer engagement initiative designed to connect Viva product teams directly with customers like you. By enrolling, you’ll gain access to a wide range of Viva product engagements, including dedicated sessions for Viva Glint & Pulse. As a participant, you’ll have the opportunity to: Explore Viva and Glint product visions through exclusive previews and roadmap discussions. Shape product development by providing direct feedback on features, designs, and measurement models. Engage with Microsoft product teams in virtual sessions that run throughout the year, including monthly meetings and iterative design reviews. Network with other customers across industries and regions, sharing best practices and learning from peers. By joining you will also be part of a strategic advisory group focused on Glint-specific HR, AI and People Science topics. If you’re interested in joining, please fill out this form so we can guide you through the enrollment process and help you get started. We look forward to partnering with you to build better products—together!
From Feedback to Action: How Viva Pulse Empowers Managers at Microsoft to Drive Employee Engagement
In fall 2023, the Viva Pulse product team collaborated with Microsoft’s HRBI (HR Business Insights) team to develop a strategy for continuous listening using Viva Pulse. We designed a comprehensive employee data collection approach that includes the existing semi-annual Viva Glint engagement survey, supplemented by new, manager-driven Viva Pulse surveys in the interim.
