Employee experience has become a bigger importance since remote-working has become a broader used way of working. When I first read about employee experience, I honestly did not understand what it was about and why it’s so important. After a while I realized, that I already knew the concept… just with different actors. In this article, I would like to give you an overview about “Employee Experience” and briefly showcase Microsoft’s Employee Experience Platform “Microsoft Viva”. Table Of Contents show Employee Experience Employee experience stages Recruitment Onboarding Development Re ..read more

Microsoft Viva Topics is one of the outcome from Project Cortex and is, beside of being part of the Microsoft Viva Family, also part of Microsoft’s Knowledge & Content Services. In my opinion a fundamental brick in order to achieve the vision to provide every company the tools to create, maintain and develop a knowledge network. But be warned, a substantial effort is needed to build the set of topics found in SharePoint Online content before apps can surface topic cards to users. Table Of Contents show What can you do with Viva Topics? Main Features Topic Card Topic Page Topic Map C ..read more

Microsoft Viva Insights represents the work-related aspects based on well-being and productivity of an individual in the company. It provides people, managers and leaders with personalized information which enables them to help everyone in the organization grow. In addition to the new productivity and health experiences, Viva Insight will also integrate features from “Microsoft Workplace Analytics” and “Microsoft MyAnalytics” over time. One of the main goals of Viva Insights is to protect privacy. Personal information of an employee is only visible to him-/herself. In this way, users can rely ..read more

Viva Learning has a clear focus on employee learning and growth. It gathers all available learning resources in a single workspace and makes them easily accessible. In addition to that, Viva Learning does also provide tools to monitor completition grade and interfacing with the most known big e-Learning platforms. Table Of Contents show What is Viva Learning? Main Features External Content Training content in MS-Teams teams Training management Sharing Conclusion What is Viva Learning? Microsoft Viva Learning is designed to enable people in the company to develop skills within the w ..read more

Over the past year, there have been many changes in the way people work. organisations all over the world had to mobilize quickly and provide workers with new tools they needed to do their jobs in order to adapt to the past social and economic changes. The increasingly distant work makes it more difficult for people to feel connected and participate in the business reality. That’s one of the main reasons why it is so important to provide an engaging experience and the ability to develop to all employees. Table Of Contents show What is Viva Connections? Main Features Conclusion What is ..read more

Microsoft Viva Insights represents the work-related aspects based on well-being and productivity of an individual in the company. It provides people, managers and leaders with personalized information which enables them to help everyone in the organization grow. In addition to the new productivity and health experiences, Viva Insight will also integrate features from “Microsoft Workplace Analytics” and “Microsoft MyAnalytics” over time. One of the main goals of Viva Insights is to protect privacy. Personal information of an employee is only visible to him-/herself. In this way, users can rely ..read more

Since the announcement by Microsoft of its Project Cortex, at the 2019 Ignite event, there has been a buzz on what to expect from this entire new development. Entirely new? Some argue this is merely an evolution of already existing Microsoft 365 features, to further increase workplace efficiency and productivity. This is partially true. We all know that especially in enterprise environments, making sure that a tool like Microsoft 365 is put to effective use and does not lead to information overflows and stale content is not a trivial task. Countless information officers have pondered -and cont ..read more

Microsoft Viva builds on the power of Teams and Microsoft 365 to unify the employee experience across four key areas — Engagement, Wellbeing, Learning and Knowledge — in an integrated experience that empowers people to be their best. Today, Microsoft is announcing an initial set of modules in Viva that will provide built-in capabilities, integrations from a strong and growing ecosystem of Viva partners, and platform extensibility that will enable customers to integrate their existing employee experience systems and tools with Viva to make them more accessible and discoverable to employees ..read more

Microsoft OneDrive is a service included in most Microsoft 365 subscriptions. It’s the foundation for many collaboration services. For example; when you’re in an MS-Teams chat (not a channel) sharing a file with other participants, then MS-Teams will automatically upload your file to your OneDrive storage and share the file with the other participants. Take a look at the following picture: I am sending a PowerPoint presentation to Lidia in an MS-Teams chat. Table Of Contents show Disable OneDrive… … for all users (Microsoft 365 not deployed yet) … for all users (Microsoft 365 already de ..read more

Recently a customer asked me if it’s possible to disallow Members from deleting files in an “MS-Teams Team” (The “Files” Tab in MS-Teams). My answer: Technically it’s possible to configure that, but (at the time of writing) there is no out-of-the-box setting you can use to achieve that in MS-Teams or the MS-Teams Admin-Center. But what we can do, is to change the permissions of the corresponding Document Library in SharePoint Online. Let me show you how to do that. Table of Contents show How to configure it for a Team Go to the right Settings Page Create a New Custom Permissions Level A ..read more