Viva Engage is now available. Install it in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Viva Engage
Connect everyone at your organization through employee communities and conversations using Viva Engage, a Microsoft Teams app powered by Yammer.
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.
Participate in 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.
Back to tabsBring in answers from around the community
Upvote replies and mark best answers to crowdsource solutions and help everyone learn.
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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.
Pull people into the moment with short videos
Create, upload, and share stories and follow stories from your leaders and coworkers using familiar social tools.
Back to tabsHelp ensure that every voice is heard
Ask questions, participate in polls, praise colleagues, and vote on answers.
See Viva Engage in action
Watch how Viva Engage connects employees and empowers everybody to contribute and express themselves.
Viva Engage features
Included in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans for enterprise and frontline workers
Announcements
Keep everyone informed and engaged wherever they are with announcements and notifications across web and mobile apps.
Stories and 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 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, and meaningful conversations.
Topics
Create and follow #topics or reach out to experts with @mentions. Help employees to find relevant content from learning providers and company resources.
Frequently asked questions
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At this time, Viva Engage will be included as part of the Microsoft Viva suite for employee experience within Microsoft Teams and available to all current Microsoft 365 and Viva customers.
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You won’t need to do anything if you already have the Communities app for Teams installed. It will automatically change to the Viva Engage experience. If you don’t have the Communities app, install it now.
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Currently, Admins will need to deploy Yammer and then install the Viva Engage app within Teams. We’re working on offering Viva Engage experiences that won’t require Yammer.
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Reach out to FastTrack, your account manager, or learn how to deploy Yammer.
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Viva Connections is the home and gateway for Viva 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.Â
Viva Engage is the social layer where employees can dive deep into communities, share their story, engage with coworkers, attend virtual events, and find belonging at work.
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Yes, storyline posts show up in Viva Connections, Teams, Outlook, and Yammer.
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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.
Implementation and support
FastTrack
Get help enabling Viva and the foundational capabilities in Microsoft 365 that support employee experience.
Get started with Viva Engage
Viva Engage is currently included in all Microsoft 365 plans for enterprise.

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