Product
Microsoft Viva app that serves as the employee experience front door, bringing company news, resources and tools into a dashboard inside Microsoft Teams.
| Type | Product |
|---|---|
| Documentation | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/viva-connections-overview |
2025-12-16 · Video on YouTube
Stop building quick apps in Microsoft Teams before they quietly turn into a compliance nightmare and a SharePoint graveyard you’ll be cleaning up for years. In this episode, we break down why Teams apps built with SPFx Adaptive Card Extensions often rot…
2025-11-23 · Video on YouTube
This episode rips apart the illusion that “Copilot training” is a workshop, a slide deck, or a single rollout campaign. It starts with a familiar pain: you trained users on Microsoft Copilot, pinned decks, hosted Q&As, ran office hours—and your help desk…
2025-12-17 · Video on YouTube
Your AI isn’t broken — your digital city is lying to it. In this noir-style podcast episode, we pull back the curtain on why Copilot, search, and enterprise AI tools hallucinate, misfire, and surface the wrong answers even when the data “exists.” The culprit…
2026-07-22 · Video on YouTube
Many organizations still confuse Viva Engage with Yammer or Microsoft Teams and miss its value for culture and knowledge sharing. This episode helps IT pros, communicators and leaders understand what Engage is, how communities, storylines and campaigns work…
2026-07-22 · Video on YouTube
Static intranets are a ghost town, and many employees never find the news, tools and policies they need. This episode explains Viva Connections and its 2026 rename to SharePoint for intranet owners, internal communicators and Microsoft 365 admins. You learn…
2025-08-13 · Video on YouTube
Viva Connections can be more than a pretty SharePoint homepage. Pair a solid foundation (navigation, targeting, permissions, mobile) with SPFx web parts and Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) to surface live business data and actions inside Teams. Build tiles…
2025-08-05 · Video on YouTube
Your Viva rollout isn’t failing—your automation is. Stop hand-typing Topics, chasing Learning content across LMS silos, and waiting for Connections posts to “eventually” appear. Learn the exact auth scopes, payload shapes, and batching tactics to: publish…
They start as quick wins like announcement cards, then lose owners and lifecycle control. They multiply across departments and Viva Connections, leaving stale content and conflicting data. · From the episode: Govern SPFx Adaptive Card Extensions in Teams…
Viva Connections is an app in Microsoft Teams that gives employees a branded entry point to company news, resources, navigation and dashboard cards, such as benefits or time-off requests. · From the episode: Viva Connections - Simply Explained
According to the episode, if you have Microsoft 365 you already have access to Viva Connections and need no separate purchase. · From the episode: Viva Connections - Simply Explained
You need a SharePoint home site, which is the foundation everything else builds on. Then pin the app globally in Teams so employees see it. · From the episode: Viva Connections - Simply Explained
The episode says that pinning the app globally drives 75% of weekly active usage, making it the most effective single action. Without it, many employees would never find the app. · From the episode: Viva Connections - Simply Explained
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