Microsoft Viva: Goals EU Data Residency

With EU Data Residency support, EU-based customers interested in using Viva Goals can have their data stored in EU Data centers. Currently, EU Data Residency is available for new customer. With this change, for existing Viva Goals EU customers, the data will be migrated to EU Data centers.

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Microsoft Viva: Topics bot brings you topic information to your Teams chat

We are introducing an exciting new way to interact with Topics. A new Teams bot for Viva Topics to bring important topic related information, activities and more to users on their Teams chat.

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Microsoft Viva: Editors cohort for topics

Knowledge managers can now select and assign a group of SMEs to a topic and invite them to validate and contribute to suggested, confirmed and published topics.

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Yammer: Rebranding to Viva Engage

To provide a consistent and delightful experience to our customers and users, Yammer across all its surfaces: web, mobile, and integrations (Embed, SharePoint and Outlook) will be rebranded to Viva Engage by late 2023. In the coming months you can expect Yammer to become Viva Engage through the update of brand elements like logo, app icon and name.

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Microsoft Viva: Trending Topics

Viva Topics brings a new way to discover and learn about important and relevant topics in your organization through the trending topics experiences across M365.

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Microsoft Viva: Adding Viva Goals team members through AAD Groups

With this capability, team admins can add members to teams by selecting AAD Groups (SG, DLs, etc.); This will enable roll outs and deployment across all teams as well as multiple group support at an organizational level.

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Microsoft Viva: Ask me anything events

All users can create moderated Q&A events from their storyline page. AMAs include question upvoting & sorting, best answer, and optional anonymous submission.

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Microsoft Teams: Support apps in Channel Meetings

Meeting organizers and participants can now add apps to meetings in Teams channels for better collaboration and engagement across a variety of scenarios.

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Microsoft Viva Engage: Storyline Announcements

Official leaders can create ‘announcement’ storyline posts that reach their audience directly in email and Teams notifications. Post on behalf of another user allows the user to assign a delegate who can post to their storyline on their behalf.

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Microsoft Viva: Social campaigns in Viva Engage

Corporate communicators can create official hashtags for campaigns that inspire participation and aggregate campaign activity with following, leader sponsorship, theming, and supporting resources.

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