Spotlight on… Glint and Pulse: A Year in Review Volume 1, Edition 3, December 2025
2025 has been a remarkable year for Microsoft Viva Glint and Viva Pulse—made possible by you, our customers. Your partnership, insights, and trust have shaped every step of our journey. Together, we delivered transformative integrations, reached new engagement milestones, and saw meaningful outcomes across the organizations we serve. This year, we introduced enhancements that not only strengthened the foundations of continuous listening but helped deliver more robust, actionable insights for organizations by deepening the connection across the Microsoft ecosystem – something we will continue to build upon. Furthermore, these advancements reflect the powerful momentum we can achieve through partnership with our customers. Starting Strong: No Downtime In early 2025, we announced the elimination of planned downtime for Viva Glint updates – a significant reliability win. Traditionally, updates meant 4–8 hours of system unavailability, disrupting survey-taking and reporting. With the new Zero Downtime Release (ZDR) process, updates became transparent, achieving ~99% availability for customers. Glint admins and end users no longer experience maintenance windows – a behind-the-scenes change that vastly improves continuity. Admin Self‑Service & Survey Experience Enhancements We enhanced admin self‑service to provide program owners with greater flexibility and improved efficiency. Additionally, updates were made to the survey experience to offer more data collection options and support better data quality. Here are some examples of features that were rolled out on the platform in 2025: Ability to manage attributes and hierarchies for more user data schema control. Controls to remove participants from results after cycle close—tightening data relevance. Cycle and user data management improvements, with controls to retain or remove identifiable information responsibly. Role clarity via the Viva Glint Tenant Administrator role in Microsoft Entra (dedicated permissions for admin center tasks and support) and the new Support User role for partners. Custom branding and persistent comment box in Glint surveys to allow for a more bespoke survey experience and encourage the provision of more actionable, insightful data. Pulse survey authoring delegation and large/dynamic audience capabilities introducing greater survey admin flexibility and reach. Identifiable and flexible end-date surveys in Pulse to allow for targeted pulsing and to support rolling data collection. Copilot survey templates available in Pulse, helping organizations measure AI transformation to drive ROI with consistent, research‑backed items with signals from these surveys seamlessly integrating into the Copilot Dashboard. Reporting Upgrades We took reporting beyond the dashboard and are continuing to focus on export improvements into 2026. We also brought in valuable benchmark comparisons to the platform this year: Team Summary export to editable PowerPoint—moved from static screenshots to fully editable content; widely adopted through private preview and broad availability. Executive Summary export and support for custom PPT templates are both now in private preview and will launch early next year. Global, Industry, Country & Regional benchmark suites are now available for use in the platform for all customers who opt in. All About Integrations... Glint Notifications & Teams In early 2025 we expanded Glint’s presence within Microsoft Teams, recognizing that for many managers and employees, Teams is the center of their workday. Now survey notifications, reminders, and nudges can appear directly in Teams chats and as rich adaptive cards, in addition to email. This “flow of work” integration has driven higher participation – customers report improved survey response rates when announcements pop up in Teams, where people are already collaborating. Managers also receive automated nudges via Teams, for instance a gentle reminder to share and discuss their team’s Glint results, or a prompt to follow up on an action plan. By meeting users where they are, we help busy teams close the feedback loop without relying solely on email. Glint & Pulse 2025 also saw the introduction of the new workflow allowing managers to launch a quick Pulse survey as a follow-up after reviewing their Glint engagement results. This closes the loop between less frequent engagement surveys and continuous listening: if Glint results identified, say, work-life balance as a concern, a manager could immediately send a targeted Pulse check-in on that topic to their team. Now organizations are empowered to move from insights to action faster than ever. In October 2025, we officially unified Viva Glint and Viva Pulse into a single offering. so that any customer with a Glint license automatically gets Viva Pulse as part of their subscription – at no additional cost. This change, essentially bundling the two products together, was driven by feedback and our belief that strategic engagement surveys (Glint) and agile pulse surveys (Pulse) are complementary tools for a healthy feedback strategy. Glint & Insights This broader Microsoft ecosystem integration has been a running theme, and last month, we achieved a major milestone by bringing Viva Glint data into Viva Insights and vice versa. A new Workplace Patterns report in Glint (developed in partnership with the Viva Insights team) allows HR and business leaders to overlay engagement survey results with collaboration metrics from Microsoft 365. For example, you can examine whether teams with consistently long working hours or excessive meeting load also show lower engagement in certain areas – connecting sentiment with behavioral data. Early adopters of this Glint–Insights integration have seen tremendous value. In fact, by the time of general release in Q4, we saw an 18% uptick in Glint-to-Insights data flows and a 32% uptick in Insights-to-Glint usage, as organizations embraced these combined insights to drive action. This integration is a great example of how Microsoft’s employee experience tools come together to provide holistic, data-driven narratives about the world of work. This month another extremely valuable analysis for Glint and Insights customers around AI transformation became available: the Copilot Employee Experience Outcomes Report highlights how Copilot usage correlates with stronger employee engagement and well‑being, showing that even small increases in usage can lead to measurable improvements in key experience outcomes. Copilot in Glint Another integration highlight from 2025 is around the continued investment and development of AI in the Glint platform. Throughout the year, the Glint team partnered with Microsoft 365 Copilot to add new AI capabilities, including expanded localization (70+ Glint-supported languages) so users can interact with Copilot in Glint in their preferred language. We also refined the Copilot experience with key quality improvements and a major model upgrade, delivering clearer, more accurate and faster responses. 2026 will see even more exciting Copilot developments in Glint. Copilot Highlights, a dashboard experience that assembles strengths, opportunities, and engagement trends at a glance, is now in private preview and will become available later next year. Streamlining Data Ingress & Egress In 2025, we began building Glint’s connection to Microsoft’s unified data platform, known as Microsoft Organizational Data Ingestion System (MODIS), and at the end of the year we kicked off our Glint MODIS private preview. MODIS streamlines how organizations bring HRIS data into Microsoft 365, reducing setup time and enabling consistent, secure data flows across Viva and beyond. For Glint, this unlocks faster onboarding, improved data quality, and a foundation for richer cross‑M365 insights. This will become available to all customers later in the year. Also related to our efforts to streamline data ingress/egress, the Raw Data Exports (RDE) API private preview will launch in 2026. This functionality will give customers more flexible, privacy‑aware access to Glint data for internal analytics and governance. Together, MODIS and RDE API represent the next phase of our integrations journey—modernizing data ingestion and export so customers can move from setup to insight even faster. Expanding Reach and Trust Alongside feature development, the team worked hard to make the products more scalable and accessible to organizations globally. In 2025 we expanded our service footprint with a new Australia Data Center coming online in September to better serve Asia-Pacific customers with in-region data residency. We also achieved Government Community Cloud (GCC-Moderate) compliance for Viva Glint in October, enabling U.S. public sector and regulated industry customers to use Glint in a compliant environment. These investments ensure that we can meet our customer's security, compliance, and performance needs everywhere in the world. Behind the scenes, the completion of the LinkedIn Glint to Viva Glint migration was another 2025 achievement. As of publication, 100% of all legacy Glint customers have migrated onto the Viva Glint platform. This was an effort spanning more than two years involving hundreds of customers, and its conclusion means all our customers are now on the latest and most extensible version of Glint, reaping the benefits of all new features. A huge thanks goes to our customers for partnering with us through that transition. With migration largely behind us and a unified platform, we can innovate even faster and serve everyone on a single, modern system. Building a Community of Feedback Champions A highlight of 2025 has been the growth of our customer community through the Viva Customer Connection Program (VCCP) for Glint and Pulse. This year, over 40 new organizations enrolled in our customer advisory program – adding over 80 individual customer experts (HR leaders, program owners, and IT admins) to co-create with us. Through monthly feedback sessions, early feature previews, and direct line conversations, this community has influenced our roadmap and helped us test new features, integrations and analytics before broad release. Customers who have taken part in these engagement opportunities have had direct influence on many of the wins we celebrated above. We want to thank all our VCCP members for their partnership – your feedback is invaluable. If you aren't a VCCP member yet but are interested in joining to take part in future customer engagements, please fill out this form. And so as 2025 draws to a close, a big thank you to our customers for your trust and feedback that fuel our innovation. The successes of 2025 set a high bar, and we’re excited to build on this foundation. With new features on the horizon (from more Copilot capabilities to deeper analytics and beyond), 2026 is poised to be another leap forward. We remain committed to your success and to our partnership in creating a workplace where every voice drives impact. Here’s to the year that was, and to the journey ahead in empowering employee voice and engagement and driving AI transformation! Happy New Year – and thank you for being part of the Viva Glint and Pulse story.Maximize Your Viva Glint Experience with a Microsoft Partner
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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!
