Viva Connections, part of the Microsoft Viva Employee Experience Platform (EXP), can help your organization achieve greater employee engagement and communication by bringing your company-branded SharePoint intranet right into Microsoft Teams.

In this session, I'll cover the main business decisions and technical considerations necessary to prepare for and enable Viva Connections for your organization. I’ll review:

• Preparing and designating a SharePoint home site
• Enabling and customizing global navigation in the SharePoint app bar
• Creating and managing the Connections Dashboard, including how dashboard cards can address employee's business needs
• Planning your Company Feed with content from SharePoint news and Yammer
• Enabling and customizing the Viva Connections app in the Teams admin center

I'll also highlight a few real-world tips and suggestions based on my experience helping organizations prepare for and successfully deploy Viva Connections.

Target audience(s): SharePoint, Teams. and IT administrators, HR, Internal Communications, and IT department leads