Yammer is now Viva Engage.
Microsoft Viva Engage
Connect everyone at your organization through employee communities and conversations using Viva Engage.
Build meaningful relationships at work
Give employees a place to connect, express themselves, and find belonging.
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Create and join employee communities
Connect with coworkers in communities built around interests, job types, departments, and everything else to find your belonging at work.
Share at scale
Keep everyone informed and engaged across web and mobile with a variety of announcement types that notify people and reach them where they are.
Start open conversations
Join the discussion, @mention coworkers, pin conversations, and build dialogue across teams and departments.
Understand engagement in your network
Get detailed insights into every community, event, and conversation to measure activity and engagement and take action.
Back to tabsHost and attend virtual events
Bring leaders and employees together for townhalls and virtual events that include video, Q&A, and meaningful conversations.
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Share and discover knowledge
Encourage open sharing and exchange of ideas, answers, and best practices.
Find answers to your questions
Chase down experts and answers within your organization by posting and pinning questions.
Bring in answers from around the community
Upvote replies and mark best answers to crowdsource solutions and help everyone learn.
Back to tabsSocial questions and answers
Ask questions, find answers that already exist, or route questions to people who can provide an answer.
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Share your unique voice
Use Viva Engage to share what you’re passionate about and connect with people who share your interests.
Create posts that highlight your work
Grow your personal network, build your brand, and amplify your impact by sharing your perspective, or find storyline posts from interesting people.
Back to tabsHelp ensure that every voice is heard
Ask questions, participate in polls, praise colleagues, and vote on answers.
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Foster open dialogue
Facilitate conversations between leadership and employees across your organization to create an environment where everyone thrives.
Engage directly with leaders
Give employees one centralized place to catch up on all content from their leaders, including discussions, events, campaigns, and recent activity.
Back to tabsDrive open conversations
Offer a new, Q&A-style event to encourage engagement through open conversations.
See Viva Engage in action
Watch how Viva Engage connects employees and empowers everybody to contribute and express themselves.
Premium Viva Engage features
These features are included only with Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities and Microsoft Viva suite subscriptions.1
Leadership Corner
See and participate in activities from leaders, take surveys, join the discussion with hashtag campaigns and AMAs, and connect with new leaders across the organization.
Advanced storylines
Publish storyline posts and stories on behalf of another user, to amplify topics that are top-of-mind for leaders and employees.
Answers in Viva
Find answers through a combination of semantic search and crowdsourced responses. Harness expertise, crowdsource answers, and capture and preserve knowledge.
Community campaigns
Create and manage organization-wide campaigns with dedicated campaign pages that aggregate posts from across your network into a unified view. Analytics make it easier to set goals and improve your reach.
Included Viva Engage features
Explore community and conversation features included in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans for enterprise and frontline workers.1
Announcements
Keep everyone informed and engaged wherever they are with announcements and notifications across web and mobile apps.
Storylines
Create, upload, and share stories. Follow stories from leaders and coworkers using familiar social tools.
Questions and answers
Help employees learn by posting and pinning questions, upvoting replies, and marking the best answers to crowdsource solutions.
Analytics
Get detailed insights into every community, event, and conversation to measure activity and engagement and take action.
Conversations
Join the discussion, @mention coworkers, pin conversations, and build dialogue across teams and departments.
Virtual events
Bring leaders and employees together for townhalls and virtual events that include video, Q&A sessions, and meaningful conversations.
Topics
Create and follow topic hashtags or connect with experts using @mentions. Help employees to find relevant content from learning providers and company resources.
Frequently asked questions
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Viva Engage premium features are part of the Microsoft Viva suite within Microsoft Teams. Viva Engage community and conversation features are included in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans for enterprise and frontline workers. Teams-integrated features require a Microsoft Teams license to enable, but can be used without Microsoft Teams via web or other in-app experiences.
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You don’t need to do anything if you’ve already installed the Communities app for Teams. It will automatically change to the Viva Engage experience. If you don’t have the Viva Engage app, install it now.
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Currently, admins must deploy Viva Engage and then install the Viva Engage app within Teams.
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Contact FastTrack or your account manager, or learn how to set up Viva Engage.
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Viva Connections is the home and gateway where people can find everything they need, including conversations, resources, and action items. Viva Connections integrates community experiences like conversations, announcements, and storyline posts from Viva Engage into the Viva Connections feed.
Viva Engage is the social layer where employees can dive deeper into communities, share their stories, engage with coworkers, attend virtual events, and find belonging at work.
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Yes, storyline posts show up in Viva Connections, Teams, and Outlook.
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No, Viva Engage is designed for scale and can meet the needs of the largest enterprises, with hundreds of thousands of employees participating in communities and networks.
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Viva Engage offers network and community admins, conversation authors, and different moderation capabilities to delete, move, pin, and report content. Learn more.
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Viva Engage is the evolution of what used to be Yammer, now with additional capabilities for leadership engagement, knowledge management, and analytics.
Implementation and support
FastTrack
Get help enabling Viva and the foundational capabilities in Microsoft 365 that support employee experience.
Get started with Viva Engage
Empower people and teams to be their best
Viva Engage is part of Microsoft Viva, the employee experience platform designed to help people connect, focus, learn, and thrive at work.
- [1] Teams-integrated features require a Microsoft Teams license to enable, but can be used without Microsoft Teams via web or other in-app experiences.
