Viva Engage

In early 2023, Microsoft renamed Yammer to Viva Engage. This year we see the first small integration of Viva Engage with Microsoft Graph in beta. This article shows how to provision a new Viva Engage community, add owners and members using Graph in an Azure Logic app. The goal is to automatically create a new Viva Engage Community which means technically, to create a Microsoft 365 group that is enabled as – sorry, I’m still using the old name - Yammer Community. Currently, Microsoft Graph beta provides a preview feature. See the details at Use the Microsoft Graph API to work with Viva Engage (preview). When using this method, remember that APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. ...

On the third day of Christmas, Microsoft gave to me… better communication, an intranet in Teams and great experience for employees with Viva Engage. We sparkle goodness within employees as we see how we can improve engagements and use Viva Engage to surprise and engage users. We use Storylines in Viva Engage to create exciting engagements for everyone. Ho-Ho-Ho Hybrid work creates a social gap within Teams and organizations. People feel less connected while they still enjoy the flexibility of remote work. Yammer and Viva Engage help people stay connected while working remote. The social community effect is essential to keep people in organizations happy and engaged. Imagine, during a lock down you were unable to get introduced to new colleagues, get a proper onboarding in your organization or to interact at a personal, social level. Yammer became one of the most used apps within Microsoft Teams, and suddenly we started many Yammer onboarding conversations with customers. The tighter integration within Viva Connections and with Viva Engage brought even more attention to my loved old-new Enterprise social tool. ...

There is a lot of news about the worldwide spread of Covid-19 and the effects on all of us. In order to prevent a rapid spread, the usual life should be restricted. People should stay at home if possible and work should be done from home if possible. We at atwork Vienna decided today in the team to do home office in the next few days and possibly weeks. The cloud and tools such as Microsoft Teams make it possible. We will report here which technology works and what needs improvement. ...

Last week, the SharePoint Conference returned to Las Vegas! #SPC19 took place from May 21 - 23, 2019 at the brand-new MGM Grand conference center, Las Vegas, Nevada. The event informed about the latest news in SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, Microsoft 365 and Azure. We from atwork were proud to deliver a full day workshop about Security and Governance in Microsoft 365 and some sessions. See some impressions of SPC19 here! As in the last year, at the first “reborn” SharePoint Conference in Vegas, SPC19 was organized by SharePoint Conference with Microsoft as a Diamond sponsor. Jeff Teper, Corporate Microsoft Vice President Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive and Stream, and his team delivered the SPC keynote about “The intelligent workplace”. You can watch it on demand at the SharePoint Virtual Summit site at aka.ms/spc/summit. ...

Office 365 Groups bring a lot of advantages to a connected workspace within Office 365. For me they are like the glue between all different Office 365 Services. If you provision an Office 365 Group you get an Outlook Mailbox, a SharePoint TeamSite, Planner and much more. When you create a Microsoft Team, you create an Office 365 Group. So it is really important for anyone who is working in the Microsoft 365 space to understand how Office 365 Groups work and what impact they have. Together with Microsoft Graph and Azure Active Directory those are the fundamentals of Office 365 to understand. ...

In part 1 of this series we described the scenario for our Office 365 groups governance toolkit. In this part we will setup a workflow for the Office 365 and Microsoft Teams provisioning. Workflows help to follow specific processes for a successful collaboration. Offering self-services for users is a key to reduce workloads on the IT department and to allow users to cover their requirements quickly while the organization’s policies are enforced during the process. A frequently asked request is how to provision a new Microsoft Team in Office 365 in a secure and monitored way. See how this can be implemented here. ...

IT-Governance is an important topic, especially in large organizations. In an agile and evergreen world, as it can be found with Microsoft 365 services, Governance becomes an integral part which needs to be monitored and updated on a regular basis. At Microsoft Ignite conference, we showed the “Groups Governance Toolkit” with a bunch of useful tools to regulate and monitor for Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. Everything we showed at Ignite is open source and built with out of the box tools within Microsoft 365 and Azure. ...