Presented session at Teams Nation on 12 May 2021.
Your employees are key agents for your organisation’s success but only if they are able to connect with integrated experiences of culture, communications and communities. Microsoft Viva Connections part of Microsoft 365 and at NO additional license cost helps achieve a rich connected workplace. We will explore how Microsoft Viva Connections bring your existing tools together like SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Microsoft Stream with targeted and relevant content to drive better employee experience.
Let's get rich and connected with Microsoft Viva Connections - Teams Nation May 2021
1. Let’s get rich and connected
with Microsoft Viva Connections
Chirag Patel | Microsoft 365 Consultant | MVP, MCT, CITP
Track: SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer & Stream (SOYS)
Sponsored by
Microsoft Teams Microsoft Tech Community
Teams Nation 2021
12 May 2021 #TeamsNation
4. Community Speaker
Chirag Patel
@techChirag
UK 2011-2014 #spsuk
EMEA 2011 #spsemea
India 2012 #spsindia
Belgium 2016-2017 #spsbe
Cambridge 2017 #spscambs
Paris 2015 #spsparis
Madrid 2016 #spsmad
Barcelona 2017 #spsbcn
London 2015-2017, 2019 #spslondon
Leicester 2019 #spsleicester
Ahmedabad 2020 #M365Ahmedabad
Bangalore 2020 #M365BLR
www.techChirag.com
5. Microsoft Teams..onwards & upwards
Daily Active Users
#TeamsNation @techchirag
11 Jul 2019
13M
11 Mar 2020
32M
18 Mar 2020
44M
29 Apr 2020
75M
27 Oct 2020
115M
27 Apr
2021
145M
6. Employee Experience Platform
#TeamsNation @techchirag
Microsoft Viva: Empowering every employee for the new digital age - Microsoft 365 Blog
Employee
Company Resources
Employee Portals and Apps
Workplace Services (pay, benefits, IT,
legal, compliance)
Insights
Analytics, Nudges, Surveys
Feedback, Sentiment
Knowledge
People & Experts
Documents & Content
Projects
Communities
Diversity & Inclusion
Interest groups
Team cohesion
Wellbeing
Physical, Mental,
Emotional, Financial
Growth & Development
Learning & Coaching
Recruiting, On-boarding & Career
Talent & Performance Development
Communications
Announcements, News, Events
7. Microsoft Viva
Empower people and teams to be their best
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https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-viva
Learning
Skilling and
growth
Topics
Knowledge and
expertise
Insights
Productivity and
wellbeing
Connections
Culture and
communications
8. Viva Connections: At-a-glance
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/SharePoint/viva-connections
Power of your intelligent SharePoint intranet with chat and collaboration tools in Microsoft Teams
9. Lets go...Microsoft Viva Connections
Setup SharePoint
Home site
Enable global
navigation and
customise
navigational links
Create a Viva
Connections app
package in
PowerShell
Provide tenant and
site information to
create the package
Upload Viva
Connections desktop
package in Teams
Admin Centre >
Manage apps
Manage and pin the
app by default for
your users
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https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/install-viva-connections-today/ba-p/2245410
10. Intranet Solution Components
Building blocks you can use to create digital workplace
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Communication sites - Use communication sites to share news, reports, statuses, and other information
through a variety of templates and web parts.
Home site - A home site is a communication site that you set as the intranet landing page for your organisation.
Hub sites - Use hub sites to organise related sites and teams and centralise news, search, and content
management.
SharePoint news - Use the news web part to post important or interesting stories, announcements, people
news, status updates, and more that can include graphics and rich formatting.
Yammer - Use Yammer to connect with people across your organisation beyond the boundaries of projects,
functions, and departments.
Forms - Use forms to create custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations, and more.
Stream - Use Stream to deliver live and on-demand meetings, events, and training.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/plan-intranet
11. Hub Navigation
Great way to achieve the cross-site navigation
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/plan-navigation-modern-experience
12. Personalise with web parts
Enriching your SharePoint site pages with over 40 widgets
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Bing maps
Button
Call to Action
Code snippet
Connectors
Countdown timer
Divider
Document library
Embed
Events
File viewer
Group calendar
Hero
Highlighted content
Image
Image gallery
Kindle Instant Preview
Link
List
List properties
Markdown
Microsoft Forms
My Feed
News
Organisation Chart
Page properties
People
Planner
PowerApps
Power BI report
Quick chart
Quick links
Recent documents
Saved for later
Site activity
Sites
Spacer
Stream (classic)
Text
Twitter
Weather
World clock
Yammer
YouTube
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-web-parts-on-sharepoint-pages-336e8e92-3e2d-4298-ae01-d404bbe751e0
13. Audience Targeting
#TeamsNation @techchirag
Pages - target specific site pages to specific audiences in a
page library
Navigational links - promote links to specific audiences
across the navigation of a site including hub and footer
navigation
News web part - push specific news posts to specific
audiences on the start page, in the mobile app, and in News
web parts that have audience targeting enabled
Highlighted content web part- dynamically display relevant
content from a list or library to a page, site, or site collection
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/overview-of-audience-targeting-in-modern-sharepoint-sites-68113d1b-be99-4d4c-a61c-73b087f48a81
14. Microsoft Viva Connections Timeline
May 2019
SharePoint Home Site
Sep. 2020
Home Site App for Teams
Feb. 2021
Microsoft Viva Announced
Mar. 2021
Viva Connections Desktop
Summer 2021
Viva Connections for mobiles,
“dashboard” and “feed” web
parts
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15. Ecosystem
Microsoft Viva
#TeamsNation @techchirag
Content providers
Wellbeing
Communications
Digital workflows
CRM
Coursera
edX
LinkedIn Learning
Microsoft Learn
Pluralsight
Skillsoft
Teams
Outlook
Yammer
Slack
Zoom
Glint Headspace
Dynamics 365 Salesforce
HR & Learning
Cornerstone OnDemand
Dynamics 365
Saba
SAP SuccessFactors
Workday
ServiceNow
And many more coming…
Microsoft 365
Teams
SharePoint
Yammer
LinkedIn
Microsoft Search
Glint
& more
16. SharePoint look book
See examples of SharePoint modern experiences you can build
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https://lookbook.microsoft.com
17. Resources
• Employee Experience & Engagement | Microsoft Viva
• Intelligent intranet overview - SharePoint in Microsoft 365
• Setting up a home site for your organisation
• Use the new SharePoint app bar and set up global navigation
• Teams Real Simple with Pictures: Setting up Viva Connections – From Scratch, End to End – Chris Hoard
• Microsoft Viva Connections - Microsoft Tech Community Resource Center
• The People-Powered Workplace
• Microsoft Viva Blog - Microsoft Tech Community
• Microsoft Viva Roadmap
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Notas del editor
Your employees are key agents for your organisation’s success but only if they are able to connect with integrated experiences of culture, communications and communities. Microsoft Viva Connections part of Microsoft 365 and at NO additional license cost helps achieve a rich connected workplace. We will explore how Microsoft Viva Connections bring your existing tools together like SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Microsoft Stream with targeted and relevant content to drive better employee experience.
Viva Connections was created to keep everyone in the workforce connected to each other. It makes it easy for people to contribute and to unite your organization around the company’s vision.
Today, in M365 there are a lot of capabilities for employee communications and engagement. There is SharePoint, Yammer, Teams and Stream. Viva Connections brings all of this together into a company branded app in Teams.
Over the last 18 months, significant progress made integrating these tools together. For example, the new Yammer communities app in Teams, with Live events, so employees can watch their company all-hands and engage in real-time Q&A across the company right from within Teams.
Connections is the next evolution pre-configured experience, that is company branded, and mobile-first, and they want it customizable for different roles.
Connections comes with a dashboard for actions and reminders. A personalized feed for company news and information. And resources where we link to the other Viva experiences like Learning and Insights.
Viva will have these 4 modules that you see here, and adding more in the future.
Each of these builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 and are integrated directly in Teams, as you can see from the UI here for each module.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Viva Connections was created to keep everyone in the workforce connected to each other. It makes it easy for people to contribute and to unite your organization around the company’s vision.
Today, in M365 there are a lot of capabilities for employee communications and engagement. There is SharePoint, Yammer, Teams and Stream. Viva Connections brings all of this together into a company branded app in Teams.
Over the last 18 months, significant progress made integrating these tools together. For example, the new Yammer communities app in Teams, with Live events, so employees can watch their company all-hands and engage in real-time Q&A across the company right from within Teams.
Connections is the next evolution pre-configured experience, that is company branded, and mobile-first, and they want it customizable for different roles.
Connections comes with a dashboard for actions and reminders. A personalized feed for company news and information. And resources where we link to the other Viva experiences like Learning and Insights.
Step-by-step guide to setting up Viva Connections desktop
Complete the following steps to enable Viva Connections desktop using SharePoint PowerShell:
Set up a SharePoint home site: We highly recommend that you set up a SharePoint home site and use that site as the default landing experience for your users in Teams.
Enable global navigation and customize navigational links: Set up and customize global navigation in the SharePoint app bar. Learn about the different ways you can set up the home site navigation and global navigation to surface the right content at the right time.
Create a Viva Connections app package in PowerShell: The SharePoint admin needs to download and run the Viva Connections PowerShell script from the Microsoft download center to create the Viva Connections desktop package. Ensure that you are using the latest version of the SharePoint Management Shell tool before running the script.
Provide tenant and site information to create the package: For a detailed description of the information you’ll need to provide, reference this article.
Upload the Viva Connections desktop package in the Teams Admin Center: Once you successfully provide the details, a Teams app manifest, which is a .zip file, will be created and saved on your device. The Teams administrator of your tenant will then need to upload this app manifest to Teams admin center > Manage apps.
Manage and pin the app by default for your users: Once the Viva Connections desktop package is successfully uploaded in the Teams admin center, it can be managed like any other app. You can configure user permissions to make this app available to the right set of user who will then be able to find this app in the Teams app catalog.
Find more detailed instructions on getting started with Viva Connections for admins and end users.