Microsoft Viva: Briefing email support for 16 additional languages

The daily Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks, and protect time for independent work. With this update, the Briefing email will be available in the following additional languages: Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Korean, Chinese Traditional, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese (Portugal), Thai, Hebrew, Czech, Arabic, and Hungarian.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/personal/Briefing/be-overview

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Microsoft Viva: Enroll in Focus plan from the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams

Viva Insights is introducing updates to better enable users to protect time for focus from the Viva Insights Teams app. These updates to the protect time page will allow users to enroll in a focus plan and adjust preferences to auto book focus time on one’s calendar from within the Insights app in Teams. Users enrolled in a focus plan will also see insights about their progress towards their focus time goals.

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Microsoft Viva: Top news card on Viva Connections Dashboard

Set up Top news card in Viva Connections Dashboard to surface boosted news from SharePoint. News that has been boosted will prominently display in the Top news card.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/boost-news-from-organization-news-sites-46ad8dc5-8f3b-4d81-853d-8bbbdd0f9c83

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Microsoft Viva: Topics in Teams

Add topics to chat messages and display topic cards in Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Viva Topics – Search to add files/pages in Topic Page

With this update, topic editors can now pin files/pages to a topic page by searching for it in the resource picker.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88852.

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Microsoft Viva: Enable search to add files or pages in Topic Pages

Editors can pin files or pages to a topic page by searching for it in the resource picker.

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Microsoft Viva: Manager insights in Microsoft Viva Insights app, Outlook and Office.com for GCC

To empower managers to foster productivity and wellbeing for teams – large or small – new insights and tools are being introduced in the “My team” tab of the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams for GCC, as well as in manager cards in the daily briefing and monthly digest emails from Microsoft Viva. These will help managers explore and improve their personal habits and team culture. Further, a new Viva Insights team home page will be discoverable at Office.com.

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Microsoft Viva: Shared focus plan in Viva Insights

The shared focus plan enables managers and team leads to foster mutual productivity norms and drive a positive team culture by inviting teams to book focus time for uninterrupted work.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/use/myteam

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Microsoft Viva: Enabling Delay Delivery Plan in Outlook to Microsoft Viva Insights licensed users (preview)

To empower people with personal insights and recommendations in the flow of work that help build better work habits, we are expanding Delay Delivery plan in Outlook to Microsoft Viva Insights licensed users (preview). The Delay Delivery plan is currently available only to people who are using Microsoft Viva Insights (MyAnalytics) and are enrolled in the MyAnalytics (Full) service plan.

Microsoft Viva Insights will show you suggestions for scheduling email deliveries that align with the recipients’ working hours in their respective time zones. The delay helps minimize disruptions to recipients outside their working hours.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics – Updates to Topic Card

Improvements to topic card to expand long descriptions, show job titles for people and interactions with Live Persona Card.

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