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Six Things That Make Viva Connections Worth Having
Most companies enable Viva Connections and see a dashboard with a single default card. That isn’t a launch. That’s a placeholder.
We do the full configuration of the home site designation, dashboard setup, targeted news feeds, branding, and audience targeting via Entra ID. Your employees open Teams and see an intranet that looks like it was built for them. Because it was.
The out-of-the-box cards cover the basics. They don’t cover your leave management system, your IT ticketing tool, or the approval workflow your operations team runs every Monday.
We build custom Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) in SPFx using TypeScript and React. Shift schedules. Leave balances. IT tickets. Onboarding checklists. KPI dashboards. Whatever your teams need at a glance, we put it on the dashboard. All custom cards and integrations are developed to meet enterprise security and compliance standards, so your sensitive data stays protected, and your organization remains audit-ready.
This shipped in 2026. Most organizations haven’t touched it.
Viva Connections now delivers personalized news read aloud, ten stories, and auto-translated into the employee’s language. A warehouse operative in Manchester and a finance manager in Singapore hear different briefings. In their own language. Without anyone manually creating either version.
We handle configuration across targeting, translation, and news sources. It runs automatically.
A frontline worker in operations doesn’t need the same dashboard as a senior manager in finance. They shouldn’t see the same news, cards, or resources.
We configure Microsoft 365 groups and Entra ID targeting so employees receive role-tailored dashboards, no duplicate sites, and no manual segmentation when departments change.
The 2026 Viva Connections update completely overhauled the mobile interface. Pill-based navigation replaced the three-tab layout. Cards load faster. Audio briefings work on the move.
We build for mobile first. Frontline, shop floor, and remote teams get a usable intranet optimized, not a desktop site squeezed onto a phone.
Leadership town halls, company-wide conversations, and team communities all live inside Teams through Viva Engage.
We set up Engage integration so your communications run from one place. Publish once; employees see it in Teams and in their briefing.
Internal Communications teams whose content isn't seen. Viva brings it to where people work. Engagement rises not because you wrote better but because friction is removed.
HR and People teams need onboarding, policy acknowledgment, and leave queries resolved without filling inboxes. A custom card handles it before it becomes an email.
IT managers with a basic Viva deployment. We’ve done this 100+ times, bringing architecture, components, and documentation. Your team receives clean work.
CIOs and CTOs who bought Microsoft 365 licenses and want the full stack used. Viva Connections is included in your license. The only cost is implementation, and we do it properly.
Frontline and remote workforces who’ve been unreachable for years. AI audio briefings in their language. Mobile dashboard with one-tap access to the tools they actually use. This is a solved problem. You just need someone who’s built it before.
Four Updates That Shipped This Year. We’ve Already Implemented All of Them.
Personalized news, read aloud, auto-translated. Ten stories per employee, matched to their role and location. We configure the targeting and translation layers so they run automatically.
The three-tab layout is gone. Pill-based controls are replaced with cleaner, faster, more intuitive controls on a phone screen. If you deployed Viva Connections before 2026, your mobile experience needs to be updated.
Leadership comms and team conversations now live natively inside Teams. We handle the migration from the old Topics integration and set up community governance.
Multi-column layouts, auto-generated table of contents, flexible image handling. Your comms team creates richer content without an IT ticket for every new format.
We track every Viva update the week it ships. Your implementation stays current, not six months behind.
Yes. It’s included with any Microsoft 365 or SharePoint Online license. No additional cost to enable it. The implementation is where the investment is.
Yes, Viva Connections requires a designated SharePoint home site. If you don’t have one, we build it as part of the engagement.
Fully. We build custom Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) in SharePoint Framework (SPFx) for anything the out-of-the-box cards don’t cover, like leave balances, IT tickets, approval workflows, KPI (Key Performance Indicator) dashboards, and shift schedules.
Yes. The 2026 mobile experience has been significantly upgraded with new navigation, AI audio briefings, and touch-optimized cards. We build mobile-first from the start.
You do, through the news targeting we configure. Employees hear the stories relevant to their role, location, and language. You publish once. They hear the version that applies to them.
You do, through the news targeting we configure. Employees hear the stories relevant to their role, location, and language. You publish once. They hear the version that applies to them.
Your Viva Connections content feeds into the broader Microsoft 365 Copilot experience. A well-structured Viva deployment makes Copilot smarter across your entire tenant. We build both and connect them.
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SharePoint Designs’ expertise unlocks the value of Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate. We help quickly develop and deploy desktop/mobile applications and multi-layered automated workflows. SharePoint Designs also delivers cost-effective Copilot studio services to bridge conversational gaps between employers and customers.
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