Share SharePoint News posts in Viva Engage
SharePoint News posts can now be shared to Viva Engage in full formatting, and their comments become one shared conversation in SharePoint and Engage.
Microsoft Viva
Permission changes for Viva Engage admin roles
Viva Engage is aligning community and membership management with the Microsoft Entra model. From late September 2026, users with only the Verified Admin or Network Admin role need Yammer Administrator or Community Admin permissions to perform some actions.
New Viva Engage Brand Center
The new Viva Engage Brand Center lets administrators customize the tenant’s logos, brand name, and theme color across the Engage web and mobile apps.
Permanently remove all People Skills data from a tenant
Microsoft now lets organizations permanently remove their entire People Skills library, including all confirmed, inferred, and imported skills data.
Learning Agent is now generally available in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft informed about the general availability of Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, previously available in the Frontier program, bringing personalized, AI-assisted upskilling to the tools users already use.
New admin settings for Viva Engage Communities and Storylines in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft has released independent admin settings for Viva Engage Communities and Storylines in Teams. Teams administrators should review and configure their preferred settings before Communities in Teams reaches general availability in June.
Town Hall, Webinar, and AMA Events in Viva Engage
Viva Engage introduces new community and storyline event types: Broadcast (Town Halls), Meeting (Webinars), and Async (AMA) events, alongside a unified events landing page.
Viva Engage communities now support Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels
Viva Engage communities now support Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels assigned to Microsoft 365 groups and their connected SharePoint sites, bringing consistent privacy and access controls across Viva Engage, Microsoft 365 groups, and SharePoint.
People Skills on the profile card in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft is expanding People Skills in Teams. Skills now appear directly on the Microsoft 365 profile card in Teams, letting employees discover colleagues’ expertise and manage their own skills profile without switching context.
Updates to AI-generated Audio Briefings in Viva Connections and SharePoint
Microsoft has added multilingual support to AI-generated audio briefings in Viva Connections and AI-generated audio summaries in SharePoint.