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Roadmap, security and documentation changes captured for Microsoft Viva.

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Microsoft Viva: Create and customize PBI reports

We are introducing a new feature for leaders and analysts of Viva Insights, where they can view a Power BI report, and edit time range, filters, attributes and change visuals as per their organizations' needs. They can then save the report for viewing later.

In developmentMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Insights in Cowork and WorkIQ spend and usage

Insights into AI spend (Copilot credit usage) at a group or team level will be available in Viva Insights as a dashboard and in Advanced insights. The services in scope of this release are Cowork and Work IQ API. The dashboard experience is available to managers with at least 5 direct reports (scoped access), the Insights analysts, and Global administrators and is enabled by default to ensure immediate access to usage-based cost insights. For users to be able to use Cowork or WorkIQ API, your tenant must have usage-based billing setup via Cost Management in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Leader access to tenant-wide data is out of scope for this release. The same insights will be available for Insights Analysts and Global Administrators in Advanced Insights.

In developmentMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Agent metrics for custom reporting in Insights analyst workbench

Unlock deeper insights into Copilot agent adoption with flexible, self-serve analytics. Insights global and partition analysts can access and combine granular agent usage metrics with agent and organizational attributes to uncover agent adoption trends, export and customize reporting, and drive more informed decisions, without relying on predefined dashboards.

In developmentMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Export metrics from Agent Dashboard

Users can export de-identified, row-level agent metrics and attributes from the Agent Dashboard. Exported data provides detailed insights into agent usage and user-level agent interactions across the organization, with personal identifiers removed. #copilotcontrolsystem

In developmentMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Copilot assisted commenting in Glint survey taking

Viva Glint survey takers will be able to use a streamlined version of Microsoft Copilot in the Glint survey taking experience to help them rewrite their comments, helping survey takers feel more confident about the feedback they’re providing. By increasing perceived security through reducing identifiable writing patterns and minimizing the effort required to refine feedback, this experience can encourage greater participation, longer responses, and more candid comments, which can drive higher engagement and richer insights from surveys.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Configure data retention policy for Viva Glint

This feature will introduce the capability for Glint service administrators to configure a data retention policy for their Glint instances based on the organizational policies. Any past survey cycles including engagement surveys, always-on surveys, lifecycle surveys and 360s will be retained/deleted based on this data retention configuration period.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Configure user and survey data retention for deleted users in Viva Glint

With the new control in Viva Glint, service administrators can now configure whether to retain or delete survey and relevant indefinable user data for users who are manually deleted from Glint or deleted via the signals received via Microsoft Entra. This will ensure that the consistency of previously generate Glint survey reports is retained and user data is handled in accordance with the relevant organizational policies. We will also process the delete signals received via Microsoft Entra and handle the corresponding user data retention or deletion as per our terms of service.

In developmentMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: New Overview experience in Agent Dashboard

Customers can now view and understand their agent landscape through the new Overview page that will be included as part of the Agent Dashboard in Microsoft Viva. This experience will provide customers with key at-a-glance insights on adoption in their organizations and visibility into who’s creating agents used in their organization.

In developmentMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Unlocking Deeper Copilot Insights with Enhanced Power BI Filtering

Enable Global and Insights admins to turn on additional attributes as filters in Power BI reports, including reserved attributes and your organization’s custom attributes. Users who have access to Power BI reports can then use these newly enabled filters to tailor reports to their business needs.

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Microsoft Viva: Recent feed in Viva Engage

Introducing a new “Recent” feed in Home to give users a more predictable view of followed and priority communications, while preserving the existing personalized “For you” experience.

LaunchedMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics: "All"- licensed user page Copilot dashboard

The Copilot Dashboard adoption landing page will be updated to show a unified view of Copilot adoption across the organization. Instead of the default page showing only on Microsoft 365 Copilot (licensed) usage, the page will include all Copilot user adoption, covering both M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat usage that does not require a license. A License filter will allow users to switch between All, M365 Copilot (licensed), and Copilot Chat (unlicensed) views.

In developmentMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Modernized content composition experience in Engage

The new content composition experience makes it easier and faster to share in Viva Engage with a cleaner, more intuitive publishing experience. It brings clearer layout, better accessibility, and smarter organization of tools—so you can focus on creating great posts without extra clicks or clutter.

In developmentMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Intelligent Summaries in Copilot Dashboard

Use intelligent summaries in Copilot Dashboard to quickly surface what’s working and where targeted attention can accelerate Copilot adoption. Intelligent summaries highlight key adoption trends to focus on areas of success. Suggested prompts enable deeper exploration of underlying trends and drivers.

In developmentMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Custom confidentiality statements

This feature enables Company Admins to customize the default Microsoft Viva Glint confidentiality statement. Admins can choose to turn off the default statement and instead define confidentiality messaging tailored to their specific program settings, such as whether responses are configured to be confidential.

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Microsoft Viva: Glint: AI-generated survey insights with Copilot Highlights

Copilot in Viva Glint now generates AI-powered summaries of employee survey results directly within Team Summary and Executive Summary reports, helping leaders quickly understand strengths, opportunities, and trends across their teams. Copilot Highlights surfaces key insights - such as notable score changes, benchmark comparisons, and response rate confidence - so leaders can move from data to action faster. With general availability, Copilot Highlights expands to support multilingual summaries, enabling global organizations to deliver AI-generated survey insights in their preferred language.

LaunchedMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Insights - New Copilot Metrics Available

We are bringing a set of new Copilot metrics including actions taken in Microsoft 365 Copilot app, Edge and OneNote, and more key use cases across Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint including suggested reply, translate, coach, clean data and more. This will empower customers to more deeply understand the key Copilot adoption cases in Copilot Dashboard and Advanced Analysis in Viva Insights.

In developmentMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Capture targeted Copilot sentiment from power and novice users

Enable change leaders to quickly identify and auto-populate Microsoft 365 Copilot power users and novice users based on organizational attributes and aggregated Copilot usage data. Automatic audience targeting in Viva Pulse will empower change leaders to capture sentiment on Copilot use cases, verbatims, and learnings with insights into whether specific audiences need more training or whether certain pockets of the organization would benefit from receiving upgraded Copilot licenses.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Measure Copilot sentiment to change manage and scale Copilot adoption

Add new Viva Pulse survey templates for Copilot readiness, adoption, and business value, with built-in entry points and reporting surfaced directly in the Copilot Dashboard. All Copilot templates are fully customizable in Pulse, with the ability to add or edit questions using Copilot authoring and the question library. Organizations can also easily upload pilot group users into Pulse via CSV to target surveys at the right audiences from day one.

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Microsoft Viva: Copilot Enhanced Topic Assignment

We're upgrading our topic assignment pipeline to be powered by Copilot, delivering significantly improved accuracy in categorizing survey comments into relevant topics.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Survey Designer Role

To empower organizations to run additional employee listening programs, like AI transformation or change management cases, we are creating a dedicated Survey Designer role. This role grants a user just enough permissions to run a Viva Glint survey without full access to platform settings and sensitive data, thus creating a more democratized platform.

LaunchedMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Enhanced AI governance for Glint Copilot

Copilot in Viva Glint will align with Microsoft's enterprise AI governance platform: enabling your IT and compliance teams to use centralized governance tools for access management and unified monitoring and reporting across all AI deployments in your tenant. This reduces governance complexity and audit burden by providing a single control plane for managing AI features across Microsoft 365. This change removes the existing Copilot toggles in the Viva Glint admin UI, making Viva Feature Access Management (VFAM) the single control plane for Copilot enablement.

LaunchedMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Navigation improvements in Reporting

Viva Glint Reporting users like managers and leaders will be able to retrace their navigation flow i.e. drill down and drill up in reports rather than lose their navigation flow within reports. Navigation improvements will replace "Go Back" to Reporting home page with an alternative clickable UX to enable users to go back to the last page of reporting they were in. In other words, this feature will cater to Back navigation improvements in Reporting.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - New Permissions

Adding new, more granular permissions for Viva Glint administration. These areas include Advanced Configuration, Nudges, General Settings, and Viva Integrations. Updating the name of the highest privileged role in Viva Glint to “Viva Glint Service Admin”, and for increased security, restricting the ability to assign new Viva Glint Service Admins to the MAC only.

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Microsoft Viva: Engage Event Broadcast, Meetings and custom events with moderated feed, annoynmous posting on web & mobile

Enhancing the Engage Events experience with additional capabilities such as Broadcast for large scale produced events, Meetings based Events. Organizers will have additional support for moderating the posted questions and conversations, and attendees can post questions anonymously. An Events Landing page allows for attendees and organizers to have one place for the contiguous events experience of "Before", "During" and "After"

Rolling outMicrosoft 365 admin centerMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 is now available in GCC-Moderate

We’re excited to announce that Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 is now available in the GCC-Moderate (GCC-M) environment! Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 provides a secure, compliant, and scalable platform for ingesting organizational data into Microsoft 365. With this release, government cloud customers can now leverage the same powerful data ingestion capabilities previously available only in commercial environments.

LaunchedMicrosoft TeamsMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Experts & verified answers in communities in Engage and Teams for iOS & Android

In the Engage app for Android and Engage app in Teams for iOS and Android, we are introducing the Community Expert. Experts will be able to endorse accurate and credible answers and be recognized as community experts with a special label next to their name. As well, experts & community admins will be able to mark answers to questions as verified answers to signal a credible and accurate answer. Verified answers will receive its own special label.

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Microsoft Viva: AI audio overview support for pages and additional languages

This feature provides additional languages support for AI generated audio overview of top 10 news items in the Viva Connections news reader experience. Additionally, if the SharePoint Knowledge Agent is available in a site, site pages and news posts will now have the AI audio summary experience.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint and Viva Insights Integration - Continuous employee engagement for leaders and managers with workplace metrics

Stay connected to your team’s engagement with Viva Insights Workplace Metrics, available alongside your survey results in Viva Glint. Between survey cycles, leaders and managers can use these continuous, real-time metrics to see how their team is working and evaluate whether actions they are taking to improve engagement are having the desired impact. This feature currently supports work-life balance and collaboration metrics, with more areas planned in the future.

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Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Highlights on Copilot adoption from Viva Engage

Explore how Copilot is making a difference in your organization through Viva Engage posts that users have shared. The Copilot Dashboard showcases real-world success stories, user-shared excitement about new Copilot features, and vibrant community discussions. These examples offer a qualitative view into how Copilot is driving productivity and engagement across your tenant, directly in the Copilot Dashboard. #CopilotControlSystem

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Microsoft Viva: Multilingual Support in Copilot for Viva Glint

Copilot in Viva Glint is expanding its capabilities to support multilingual interactions, allowing users to submit prompts and receive responses in their preferred language. This enhancement improves accessibility and usability for global organizations by enabling Copilot to detect the language of user input, and return responses in the same language.

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Microsoft Viva: Block posts with theme moderation

Theme moderation in Engage will soon offer an option to block message creation if content aligns with a theme. This change expands on the previous release to monitor and mute content based on themes. When a theme is blocked, users will see a message explaining why their message can't be published. Users can edit or discard the message. Admins and corporate communicators can control where blocks happen across storylines and communities. Leaders, corporate communicators, and network/verified/Engage admins cannot be blocked regardless of theme.

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Microsoft Viva: Engage Communities in Microsoft Teams

Your Viva Engage communities will now be available in Teams along side teams, chats and channels. Engage communities in Microsoft Teams make it simple to connect, share, and learn across your organization. This new experience brings discoverable, asynchronous conversations and leadership engagement into Teams—helping employees explore ideas and perspectives beyond project-based collaboration.

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Microsoft Viva: Hide a user's messages in Viva Engage

The hide user messages feature is a user-level moderation control. It allows users to see fewer messages from other users, helping to reduce interactions that may be unwanted or inappropriate. Users cannot hide designated leaders, corporate communicators, or network/verified/Engage admins. The hide user feature is default on; admins can turn it off for their network in the Engage admin center.

In developmentMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Agent Dashboard.

Viva Insights is creating an Agent Dashboard, designed to be a central place for leaders, delegates and analysts to understand how your organization is adopting agents. #copilotcontrolsystem

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Microsoft Viva: Flexible targeting of Storyline Announcements

We’re introducing more flexible and precise targeting capabilities in Viva Engage, starting with Storyline Announcements. This new feature allows leaders and their delegates to define a custom audience at the time of posting, without relying on pre-configured Leader Audiences. Audiences can be built, and saved for reuse, using organizational attributes such as department, job title, or country, existing groups like M365 Groups, distribution lists, or security groups, and even individual users by name. This flexibility enables more relevant communication, helping leaders reach the right people with the right message. Notifications and delivery channels, including Teams and email, will continue to follow existing Storyline Announcement behavior, ensuring a seamless experience for recipients. This feature is designed to help leaders tailor communications to specific departments, locations, or groups, enhancing engagement and relevance across the organization.

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Microsoft Viva: Updated Regional Benchmarks for employee feedback

Viva Glint will refresh its Country & Region external benchmark suites for 2025. These updated benchmarks provide organizations with more accurate and current comparative insights into employee feedback across geographies, enabling better-informed decisions and more relevant action planning.

LaunchedMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - Broader access to M365 Copilot Chat insights

Microsoft Viva is expanding access to M365 Copilot Chat Insights in Microsoft Copilot Dashboard by enabling tenants with 1-49 M365 Copilot licenses- allowing more tenants, including those with fewer licenses, to track adoption trends. Insights will include usage over time, group level adoption, retention, app-level breakdowns, retention, and more. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover usage patterns.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Move conversation feature toggle

Engage admins and network admins can change access to the move conversation feature with this new toggle. This feature helps customers manage how messages move across communities. When disabled, only admins, corporate communicators, community admins, and community experts can move conversations. When enabled (default), any user with access to a conversation can move it.

LaunchedMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Copilot Employee Experience Outcomes Report with Viva Glint

A new Power BI report in Viva Insights highlights the relationships and impact of M365 Copilot usage on employee experience sentiment outcomes in Viva Glint. This report enables robust analysis by allowing users to slice and dice data based on Copilot usage segments, different sentiment outcomes and organizational attributes. #copilotcontrolsystem

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Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Unified Exclusion list

Unified Exclusion Lists in Copilot Analytics provide a single, streamlined way for admins to exclude users—both unlicensed and licensed—from all Viva Insights reports and Copilot Dashboard. This ensures consistent, privacy-compliant data control across the entire platform. Admins can manage exclusions easily through one list, simplifying configuration and safeguarding sensitive user data without impacting other organizational HR data.

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Microsoft Viva: Storyline & Post Enhancements, Cover Photos, Drafts, AMAs, and More

Over the course of the next few months, you’ll see a set of updates that make it easier to create, manage, and personalize posts in Viva Engage. These include Storyline cover photos and featured posts to further customize your Storyline page, the ability to draft and schedule posts in advance, support for AMAs, and the ability for a delegate to post-on-behalf-of on Storyline. Whether you're a communicator, leader, or team member, these features will help you engage your audience with greater clarity and customizations.

LaunchedMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - M365 Copilot Chat adoption metrics

Insights on M365 Copilot Chat adoption for users not licensed for M365 Copilot. Insights will include usage trends over time, adoption by group, retention, and app level breakdowns. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover adoption patterns. Admins can disable M365 Copilot Chat insights in Microsoft Admin Center.

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Microsoft Viva: Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report

Following further review, this feature continues in development. We apologize for any inconvenience. Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report (Preview) 1. Addition of Weekly active user count 2. Report aggregation changed to weekly to main consistency with other reports

LaunchedMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint Metrics

Copilot Analytics users can now view metrics that reflect Copilot Chat (Work and Web) activity across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These updates reflect the latest addition of Copilot Chat to these apps to help users transition seamlessly between workflows and will be displayed alongside existing app chat metrics for continuity. The updated metrics are available in the Copilot Dashboard, the M365 Copilot Adoption and Impact PBI reports, with additional query support for all chat prompt metrics.

In developmentMicrosoft Viva

Viva Glint - Action Taking Analysis Report

Introduction of a new report that provides transparency into platform activity by dashboard users. Metrics such as report views, Team Conversations completed, Focus Areas created, and more will be visible and filterable with this report.

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Microsoft Viva: Focus Area simplification and enhancements

Beginning with this feature release, Focus Areas will be associated with survey cycles and goal periods will be retired. Users will be able to select the same Focus Area across multiple cycles. The Focus Area Overview report will be filterable to groups of interest (e.g. managers only). Draft/deleted Focus Areas will no longer be included in Focus Area calculations.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - New Pulse customization options

Authors will have new options when starting surveys, including choosing to send without pre-defining an audience, and feedback can instead be gathered by sharing a link that people can access the survey and respond through, sending a survey without a specified end date, allowing for longer-term data collection and multiple responses from recipients over time, and collecting identified responses, where answers are attributed to the person who submitted them.

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Microsoft Viva: Unread News Notifications in Connections

After further review, this has been delayed to a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience. Users will receive a weekly notification in the Connections apps in Microsoft Teams on mobile and desktop linking them to relevant SharePoint news that they might have missed in the preceding week. This unread news will be available in the "News" tab in the Connections app under the "unread" pill.

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Microsoft Viva: News AI audio briefing in Connections Mobile

This feature provides an AI generated audio overview of top 10 news items in the Viva Connections news reader experience. It plays the 10 audio clips sequentially to help users catch up on top news in a hands-free manner. This experience will be available in the Viva Connections App in Teams mobile on iOS and android.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Delete survey cycles

This feature enables Glint Admins to delete survey cycles within a configured program. When a cycle is deleted, all associated data—including reporting—will be removed from the platform. The feature is intended for removing obsolete or test cycles that are no longer needed.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage supports 14 more languages

Viva Engage now supports 14 additional languages (listed below), making the platform more accessible to global users. This update allows employees to engage in their preferred language, helping improve communication across multilingual teams. Users can navigate to their settings in Viva Engage and choose their preferred language in the drop down under 'Language' settings. The new languages are - 1. Arabic 2. Vietnamese 3. Serbian (Latin) 4. Slovak 5. Croatian 6. Hebrew 7. Slovenian 8. Lithuanian 9. Estonian 10. Bulgarian 11. Latvian12. English (United Kingdom) 13. Spanish (Mexico) 14. French (Canada)

LaunchedMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: News AI audio briefing

This feature provides an AI generated audio overview of top 10 news items in the Viva Connections news reader experience. It plays the 10 audio clips sequentially to help users catch up on top news in a hands free manner. This experience will be available in the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop and in the Viva Connections experience in the browser (Accessed from the main Viva home portal - viva.cloud.microsoft).

LaunchedMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Introducing Viva Engage Role Management APIs on Microsoft Graph

We’re excited to announce that Viva Engage Role Management APIs in Microsoft Graph are releasing soon. These new APIs enable IT admins to programmatically manage Viva Engage-specific roles, including Corporate Communicator, Network Administrator and Verified Administrator. With these APIs, one can automate role assignments, retrieve role data, and streamline admin workflows across organization. Previously, roles such as Global Administrator, Yammer Administrator, and Knowledge Manager were already supported via Microsoft Graph through Entra. This update expands that capability to include all Viva Engage roles—bringing greater flexibility and control to your admin experience. The APIs are now available in beta version for allowing users to test and share their feedback as we prepare for the general availability.

LaunchedMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Dashboard: Team Views

Scoped access enables managers to view Copilot insights specific to their own organizations both on the Copilot Dashboard and in additional Copilot reports on the Reports page. This allows leaders at different levels to monitor adoption and impact within their teams, while respecting organizational boundaries and privacy. Admins can configure access criteria and set minimum thresholds.

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Microsoft Viva: Manage GDPR requests in Engage admin center

You can now manage GDPR deletion requests directly within the Engage admin center, streamlining the process and reducing reliance on the legacy Yammer admin center. This update centralizes compliance actions in one modern interface.

LaunchedMicrosoft VivaMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - Benchmarks

Compare Copilot active usage with benchmarks in Copilot Dashboard. External benchmarks will provide a reference for how usage compares to other companies. Internal benchmarks will enable users to compare similar groups, within your company. #copilotcontrolsystem

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Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - Enhanced scope drilldown

Leaders and managers can drilldown and explore data in Copilot Dashboard by indirect groups, unlocking a new layer of visibility into Copilot adoption and impact. #copilotcontrolsystem

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Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - Updated meeting metrics for Intelligent Recap

Copilot Dashboard users can now view metrics that reflect both summarized and recapped meeting activity, offering a more complete view of Copilot’s impact in Teams. These updates replace previous Copilot Assisted Hour calculations and meeting metrics with unified “summarized or recapped” metrics, helping leaders better understand usage across their organization. The updated metrics are available in both the Copilot Dashboard and the M365 Copilot Impact report in Advanced Insights, with additional query support for Intelligent Recap meeting metrics. #copilotcontrolsystem

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Microsoft Viva: Autoplay videos in Engage (Muted)

Muted Autoplay for Videos in the Engage Feed. As you scroll, videos will start playing silently—captions on, sound just a click away. Admins can enable or disable the feature for their organization.

Rolling outMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights - Skills landscape report for organizations

A Power BI report that provides an overview of the skills distribution in the organization and supports users in identifying skill gaps and making informed decisions on workforce planning, resource allocation, and skilling initiatives.

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Microsoft Viva: Organizers reply privately to individuals

Allows Engage event organizers to answer questions from specific attendees without displaying the reply to the other participants. This capability can be helpful for sensitive questions, personal inquiries, or follow-up discussions that are not intended to be broadcast to the entire audience.

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Viva Engage - Export event posts

Organizers & co-organizers can now download all event questions (within the past 28 days) —including status, source, timestamps, upvotes and reactions—in a .csv file for easy filtering, analysis, and sharing. The option to export questions is available by default, if there is at least one question posted, on the event page.

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Microsoft Viva: Allow/disable reactions in Engage events

Organizers can now disable reactions in Engage events. When this setting is turned off, attendees won’t see or be able to use reactions on questions, discussions or comments. Organizers can manage this option under additional settings in the event creation/edit page.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Include missing survey takers

This feature enables a Glint Admin to create surveys for participants who were not originally included in a live survey. With this update, the admin can modify the distribution list within the survey program settings and generate surveys for the newly added participants.

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Microsoft Viva: Anonymous comments in Engage events

Organizers & attendees can now post comments anonymously during Engage events—just like anonymous questions. When enabled by the organizer, these comments are fully anonymous in the UI and compliance systems, helping foster open, honest conversations. Look for the “Comment anonymously” toggle when posting to protect your identity and encourage authentic engagement.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint admin can enable Copilot for the Company admin user role

Viva Glint's Company Admin role currently prevents editing of any role permissions, including feature controls for survey program reporting. While this restriction helps prevent accidental disruption of critical admin capabilities, it has emerged as a significant barrier to Copilot adoption. Customers must create and maintain redundant custom roles solely to enable Copilot access for Company Admin users, adding unnecessary complexity to deployment and ongoing management. This feature update will allow Company Admins to enable Copilot for themselves at the Viva Glint client user role level via a new toggle in General Settings. This enables Copilot across all eligible recurring and ad-hoc survey programs without altering the permissions architecture of the Company Admin role at the program level. All existing Company Admin user role permissions remain locked to preserve critical admin safeguards. This targeted change preserves essential admin role safeguards while removing a key friction point in Copilot deployment.

CancelledMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics - Prompt category metrics for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard will start showing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat prompt category metrics within Copilot Chat (work) insights. #copilotcontrolsystem Updated June 9, 2026: Public preview is now available. We have incorporated initial customer feedback and are continuing to evaluate additional enhancements to the prompt categories, including potential updates to the category set and underlying experience. Based on this ongoing evaluation, we will share further updates regarding future release plans, including General Availability, at a later date. Thank you for your patience.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Catchup Skill (Copilot in Engage)

Catch up effortlessly on Home Feed or Community conversations since you last checked- this card will provide a personalized update to what you missed since you last logged into the Viva Engage homepage or since you last clicked into the Feed for a specific Community you follow

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Microsoft Viva: Group-less campaigns in Viva Amplify

We are streamlining the campaign management experience in Viva Amplify and campaigns will no longer be tied to M365 groups. As such, M365 Group admins will no longer be a required role to configure Viva Amplify and only SharePoint admin role will be required. Also, when you create a campaign, there will no longer be a campaign channel tied to the Viva Amplify campaign, simplifying the campaign creation experience.

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Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard Trendline Additions

Copilot Dashboard users can now visualize trends in additional key adoption and impact metrics over time to more quickly identify patterns and opportunities in employee adoption for better licensing decisions. Users will be able to now view Adoption metrics on either a monthly or weekly timeframe for specific groups of interest, as well as deep dive into Impact metrics like Copilot Assisted Hours, Actions Taken, and feature-specific dimensions.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Authoring with M365 Copilot

Viva Pulse authors can now work with M365 Copilot to add a question, rewrite a question, and create a survey from scratch to quickly create and send their surveys to their teams to collect feedback. M365 Copilot can seamlessly capture the author's needs to recommend survey questions that fit their unique scenario. #copilotcontrolsystem

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Audience breakdown tooltip

Amplify reports will provide a breakdown of the channels shown in the Unique viewers card. The tool tip will show the top 5 channel audiences and their contribution to the overall numbers for each publication channel presented in the report.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enhanced Copilot in Engage

Copilot in Engage has now been integrated with M365,providing the same rich access to the M365 Graph, and helping you natively access Microsoft data in the flow of Engage. Alongside this update, you can expect improved AI-powered writing assistance that bring in email/chat/files data to help craft both the content and style of your message

In developmentMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Introducing the New Republish Feature in Viva Amplify

We’re excited to launch Republish, a new feature that keeps your content fresh, extends its reach, and maximizes engagement across SharePoint, Viva Engage, Outlook, and Teams. Update existing published content in a few clicks, re-share key messages to new audiences or channels, correct errors and refine your messaging —all without starting from scratch. Republish in Viva Amplify makes content management effortless.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Self service for historical imports

This feature will introduce an alternative solution to the existing Advanced Configurations feature that allows an Admin to perform historical imports into the Viva Glint platform. This alternate reduces the number of needed files and offers a simplified user experience to bring historical data into Viva Glint.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Self service for retroactive updates

This feature will introduce an alternative solution to the existing Advanced Configurations feature that allows an Admin to retroactively update simpler attribute scenarios associated to surveys. This alternate provides a friendly user experience in a new wizard format - and as well as offering the option to perform the feature with zero file uploads.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Distribute from SharePoint

We are bringing Amplify capabilities to SharePoint. Soon, you will be able to share your Pages to multiple channels using Amplify without needing to navigate away from SharePoint. You will receive the in-depth Amplify reporting on these pages.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: New Feature access management UI in Admin Center

Through the new Feature Access management user interface, admins will be able to manage feature access settings directly in Microsoft 365 admin center. Feature access management allows admins to use access policies to manage which users can access specific features in Viva apps, so you can tailor your deployments to meet your local regulatory or business requirements. Previously, these policies could only be managed with Microsoft PowerShell cmdlets. After this rollout, admins can choose to use either Microsoft 365 admin center or PowerShell to manage feature access. Existing policies set for an organization will persist and can be managed in both places.

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Outlook: Org Explorer in Outlook for Mac

Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This feature will now also be available in Outlook for Mac.

LaunchedMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Copilot Dashboard Scope Filter enhancements

Introducing exciting new features to help you better understand and improve adoption and impact of Copilot for Microsoft 365 through the Copilot Dashboard. Enhancements include supporting multi-select capabilities for Scope filters to facilitate group comparisons and the ability to upload HR organizational data for Scope filter updates.

In developmentMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Leaders updated via group sync

Currently, leaders are managed in Viva Engage manually. If you wish to add or remove leaders, you need to go to Engage to do so. This feature will allow you to define a group that includes users who should be designated as leaders. As you add or remove people from that group, they will gain or lose privileges accordingly. The manual method will continue to be available.

Rolling outMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Topic Subscription notification

This feature allows users to subscribe to notifications for Viva Engage topics they follow. Users will receive a Viva Engage bell notification when a new post is tagged with a topic they are subscribed to or when the topic is added to an existing post.

LaunchedMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: External benchmarks in Advanced Insights

External benchmarks provide Insights analysts with helpful reference points to illustrate what "normal" looks like across other companies with similar size or industry profiles, to help users interpret their company's own Insights results. External benchmarks will be available to analyst users in Advanced Insights as a new page in the Copilot Headlines Power BI report.

LaunchedMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Headlines report in Advanced Insights

Insights analysts and leaders are interested in finding highlights and opportunities in their Copilot adoption data, but it can be time-consuming to find the groups that are experiencing dramatic trends or have much higher or lower Copilot usage than expected. Copilot Headlines shows an analyst where interesting things are happening in their data by automatically scanning a query and looking for outliers, changes over time, and differences from dynamic internal benchmarks. Analysts receive the headlines in a Power BI report as a table, along with supporting visualizations to help explore and validate the results.

Rolling outMicrosoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Video templates

Create and highlight videocentric publications, like meeting content or executive messages, with the new video templates in Viva Amplify; this presents videos that are inline, playable, and beautiful.