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Viva Learning was launched to GA (General Availability) at Ignite 2021 Fall Edition and rolled out to commercial Microsoft 365 tenants during the last months of 2021.
Your employees will, by default, be able to begin using Viva Learning right away without any IT administrator action to enable it or configure it. Now is the time to get to grips with what is available to configure, and how you can use the built-in functionality to good effect.
We've had a bumper year on Practical 365. To finish up 2021 here are eleven articles that you can't miss as you break for the holiday season and get ready for 2022.
Microsoft Ignite 2021 happens (virtually) on Nov 2-4. There are tons of sessions scheduled and in this post we consider some important Microsoft 365 topics that we hope are covered.
TEC 2021, The Experts Conference, takes place as a virtual event on September 1-2. In this article, Tony selects his favorite sessions from the event agenda. This isn't to say that the other sessions are no good. Everyone's got their own favorite topics and there are many other TEC sessions which will make others very happy.
In this week's Practical 365 podcast, Steve and Paul get down into the detail of Windows 365 - will it be a hit or a miss? And we discuss the new version of SharePoint Server that is arriving - plus we talk through the licensing for Viva. Is it worth it?
A new version of the Microsoft Viva Insights app for Teams includes some of the promised wellbeing functionality designed to help stressed users get through the work day more easily.
On the show this week, we're joined by a special guest from Microsoft, to talk about one of the key pillars of Microsoft Viva - and we discuss new Teams features you might not like quite so much, discuss the recent Microsoft outage and look at three big new features on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap...
After going through the work to generate Viva Topics, it's time to expose the topic cards to apps. In this article, we explore how apps use topic cards.
Viva Topics is the foundation of Microsoft's knowledge network. Substantial effort is needed to build the set of topics found in SharePoint Online content before apps can surface topic cards to users.
Insights is one of the four modules in the Microsoft Viva Employee Engagement Platform. The Insights app for Teams surfaces the same information as MyAnalytics for most people, but more is coming.
Read Microsoft MVP Paul Robichaux's take on Viva, Microsoft's new "Employee Engagement" suite, and what it means for you.