Viva Engage Communities Gain Support for Sensitivity Labels
Viva Engage communities now support Purview container management labels (sensitivity labels that manage settings for groups, teams, communities, etc.). The update makes it possible to manage community settings like privacy through labels instead of settings applied to individual communities. Once communities have container management labels, you can manage the labels in the same way as when applied to Teams and Microsoft 365 groups. https://office365itpros.com/2026/04/03/container-management-labels-viva/
Can't add Viva Engage community calendar to Outlook
We would like to experiment with using the SharePoint Online Web part that allows you to display a group calendar on a SharePoint Online page. Our idea is to use a Viva Engage community as a means to create that group calendar so that the features of a community can also be used for this scenario. I assumed that it worked similarly to Microsoft Teams whereas along as the "HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled" property is FALSE for the connected group, that either all community admins/members would see the group calendar show up in Outlook automatically OR you could manually add the calendar in your calendar lists in Outlook. Neither seem to be the case. What's interesting about the group that connects to a Viva Engage community is the ""HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled" property is FALSE by default. However, the group calendar does not appear in Outlook. As a community admin, I tried to manually add the calendar and I get an error message "Couldn't add [group]. You may not have permissions". Does anyone know why I'm running into that error and/or why the group mailbox is not showing up in Outlook by default since the property states that it is not hidden? Is it not possible to view Viva Engage group calendars in Outlook? Thanks!
Viva Engage Community Membership
Hi I need some assistance with Viva Engage. The default community All Company has 300 members where we only have 200 active staff. The additional users that are showing have no licenses and are disabled in admin centre. How can i remove these users? I only noticed the All Company group in entre exists but has no users. Can you help Thanks, CiaranMicrosoft Kills Viva Goals
Microsoft’s announcement of the Viva Goals retirement came as a complete surprise to the customers using Viva Goals to implement the OKR methodology for their organization. From Microsoft’s text, it seems pretty clear that Viva Goals just didn’t succeed in winning sufficient customers to warrant ongoing development. The outcome is that Microsoft cut its losses and will retire Viva Goals. https://office365itpros.com/2024/12/09/viva-goals-retirement/Viva Engage Items Show Up in Search Results
News that Viva Engage search results are included in the results generated by Office.com and SharePoint.com is not unexpected. Only certain Viva Engage items appear in search results such as storyline items and question and answers from public communities. In other news, ten years after Microsoft’s Acompli acquisition, there’s no doubt that Outlook Mobile is a huge success. https://office365itpros.com/2025/01/02/viva-engage-search/How to Disable the Viva Engage Core Service Plan
As part of its rebranding of Yammer to Viva Engage last week, Microsoft added the Viva Engage Core service plan to user accounts. Which is nice, unless a tenant had blocked Yammer. The new service plan means that accounts can now use Yammer In many cases, it won’t matter too much that users can now access Yammer, but in other instances it will. In any case, we should tidy up by removing the Viva Engage Core service plan from any account that already blocks Yammer. Some PowerShell does the trick, but it would have been nice if Microsoft had thought things through a little more. https://office365itpros.com/2023/02/20/viva-engage-core-service-plan/
Distribution List Email failed and I don't understand why
We are a non-profit with limited IT experience, so please be kind with responses. Hoping you can provide some guidance to assist with how to fix this. Tried to send an AllCompany email to the distribution list and it wasn't delivered. Message trace text included: Received -> Not Processed -> Not delivered 2/23/2024, 6:43 PM | Drop | Reason: [{LED=554 5.4.184 RESOLVER.GRP.SuppressYammerGroupExpansion; By design group expansion for Yammer groups is suppressed so posts are not sent to the group members mailboxes};{MSG=};{FQDN=};{IP=};{LRT=}]
Duplicate Viva Engage Emails
I have a user who gets 4-5 of the same email updates from Viva Engage. The title and the content are the same in every email and they get them over the course of a few days. Here is what their Viva notification settings look like: Here is the emails they are getting: The user says that there is no new content. And from what I can see the post in question that keeps popping up in emails has not been liked of commented on by the user. The user is also not an Admin of the Wellness Engage community.
