Microsoft HLS Viva Four Part Webinar Series

Microsoft HLS Viva Four Part Webinar Series

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Vivawebinar.png  Recently Microsoft HLS put on a webinar “Enhance Your Employee Experience with MS Viva.” This all up, high level webinar, led by Microsoft’s Michael Gannotti, covered all four of the current Microsoft Viva modules. Covered were Viva Connections, Viva Insights, Viva Topics, and Viva Learning. To provide deeper insight into each of the Viva modules, and to help customers test and investigate these modules, Microsoft HLS is putting on a 4-part webinar series “Microsoft HLS Viva Webinar Series.” You can read about each of the deep dive webinars below as well as download the individual calendar invites for each. Each session will be delivered by Michael Gannotti, Principal Technical Specialist, Microsoft HLS. 



 


Microsoft Viva Connections – The Personalized Next Gen Intranet for Engaging Employees


October 27: Microsoft HLS Viva Webinar Series – 1


Microsoft Viva Connections delivers a role based “curated, company-branded experience that brings together relevant news, conversations, and resources in the apps and devices you use every day.” – Viva Connections. Microsoft Viva Connection is designed not only to inform employees but to also engage them in a meaningful fashion that help reduce feelings of disconnectedness that can arise in a hybrid workplace.


Agenda:



  • Overview of Microsoft Viva Connections

  • Instructions around its setup (Step by step walkthrough of standing up Viva Connections. Yes, it’s that straightforward and we will show you how.) including configuring the Connections Dashboard and Feed.

  • Opportunities for extension of the Microsoft Viva Connections experience to add additional value and employee engagement.

  • Open Q&A – Bring your questions, comments, concerns. Wondering what to do if you are still on premise or in SharePoint classic, maybe even another Intranet technology altogether? This will be a great opportunity to ask.

  • Resources to get started on your journey to better employee engagement.

  • Wrap up/Next steps


 


Microsoft Viva Insights – Improving Employee Productivity and Well Being


November 10: Microsoft HLS Viva Webinar Series – 2


Microsoft Viva Insights provides powerful, actionable, insights to “improve productivity and wellbeing with data-driven, privacy-protected insights and recommendations.” – Viva Insights


Microsoft Viva Insights enables employees to get personal insights in the flow of work as well as assists employees in managing their day, priorities, breaks, and more. Microsoft Viva Insights also helps managers address team stressors, productivity, and avoid employee burnout. Finally, Microsoft Viva Insights generates valuable insights and reports for business leaders that address challenges within the workplace. In all of these scenarios Microsoft Viva Insights is designed to keep employee data safe, private, while helping to enable organizations to maintain compliance with industry and regional requirements.


Agenda:



  • Deep dive into Microsoft Viva Insights capabilities

  • Learn how Microsoft Viva Insights can provide deep actionable insights while delivering privacy and ensuring organizational compliance.

  • Address areas for expansion, customization, potentially leveraging data from additional non-Microsoft resources.

  • Open Q&A

  • Resources for Microsoft Viva Insights

  • Wrap up/Next Steps


 


Microsoft Viva Topics – Automatically Organize Content/Expertise Across Your Organization Improving Ease of Information Discovery/Use


November 23: Microsoft HLS Viva Webinar Series – 3


Microsoft Viva Topics “automatically organizes content and expertise across your organization, making it easy for people to find information and put knowledge to work.” – Viva Topics


With Microsoft Viva Topics you can turn content into knowledge using AI to reason over your organization’s data and automatically identify, process, and organize content. You can organize knowledge, improving topics by combining AI and human expertise. Finally, make knowledge easy to discover by automatically displaying topic cards across Microsoft 365 apps to enable knowledge discovery in the context of your work.


Agenda:


During the Microsoft Viva Insights webinar attendees will:



  • Deep dive into Microsoft Viva Topics capabilities

  • Learn how Microsoft Viva Topics can improve information and expertise discovery within the context of work.

  • Address areas for expansion, customization, of Microsoft Viva Topics pages.

  • Open Q&A

  • Resources for Microsoft Viva Topics

  • Wrap up/Next Steps


 


Microsoft Viva Learning – Bringing Together the Continuum of Learning from AdHoc Projects to LMS hosted Compliance Training


December 23: Microsoft HLS Viva Webinar Series – 4


“Empower employees to discover, share, recommend, and learn from content libraries across your organization with this center for learning in Microsoft 365” – Viva Learning 


With Microsoft Viva Learning employees can easily discover, recommend, and share all learning within and organization including Sharepoint content, 3rd party learning/training packages, Microsoft public resources, formalized Learning Management Systems (LMS), and more.


Agenda:


During the Microsoft Viva Insights webinar attendees will:



  • Deep dive into Microsoft Viva Learning capabilities

  • Learn how Microsoft Viva Learning can improve organizational readiness and skilling.

  • Address areas for expansion, customization, of Microsoft Viva Learning content.

  • Open Q&A

  • Resources for Microsoft Viva Learning

  • Wrap up/Next Steps


Thanks for visiting – Michael Gannotti   LinkedIn | Twitter


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3 ways to support frontline workers in a hybrid world

3 ways to support frontline workers in a hybrid world

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When the working world split between those who could work from home and those who could not, the frontline transformed beyond anyone’s expectations. Frontline workers—the associates at the forefront of your customer interactions, the clinicians delivering patient care, and those running your operations on the ground—have long been underserved by technology and are only now…

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Brought to you by Dr. Ware, Microsoft Office 365 Silver Partner, Charleston SC.

Log Analytics Legacy Queries experience update

Log Analytics Legacy Queries experience update

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Intro


Log Analytics continues it’s journey to improve and fine tune our experiences. 


One of the core Log Analytics experiences is the ability to save, share and re-use queries.


We have recently invested in updating and upgrading our query experience with a new modern UI.
Today we are happy to announce that all of our query experiences will be consolidated in the same UI –  allowing a single experience for all types of queries in Logs.


 


Query Explorer


Query explorer’s functionality is now available in our new query experience only.


The query explorer experience is fully replaced by the new UI. 


Please note, there’s no change to any of the API experiences – so everything ‘simply works’, there’s no investment nor changes needed to enable the new experiences.  


 


The new Query Experiences


All Log Analytics experiences have been consolidated to a new, modern UI in the Logs blade.
See the following articles for additional details:


1. Log Analytics Legacy Queries in the new Query UI


2. Legacy Queries Save/Edit Experience


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Query packs


Alongside supporting our Legacy Queries, the team has recently introduced a new way for  saving, sharing and managing queries in Log Analytics- Query packs.


Using Query packs to save and manage your queries has a lot of advantages over using Legacy Queries. to name a few:
1.  Resource centric queries – Legacy Queries only work in Log Analytics workspaces and Application insights and are attached only to one workspaces/AI component. Query packs may be used in all Log Analytics context and may be shared between different resources.


2. Rich metadata and smart filtering – Query packs queries contain rich metadata allowing more control over the queries and easier management and discovery experiences.


3. Enhanced security – Query packs are ARM objects. As such, you may manage access and security at the query pack level


4. Manage queries using code – Query packs API supports advanced deployment and management of your query packs and queries.


We recommend using query packs to manage your Log Analytics queries.


To learn more about query packs – click here.


 


Feedback


We appreciate your feedback! comment on this blog post and let us know what you think of the this change.


You may also use our in app feedback feature to provide us with additional feedbacks:


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Notebook Views in Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed

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In this episode of Data Exposed with Julie Koesmarno, we will give you a sneak peek of what’s new in Azure Data Studio. In this demo, Notebook view simplifies the workflow for your notebook consumers. At Microsoft, we continuously strive to come up with practical ideas that help our customers. With that, we have also been experimenting with converting a couple of highly used SQL Server docs to Notebooks. 

 


Watch on Data Exposed



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Viva Topics brings new integrations with Yammer

Viva Topics brings new integrations with Yammer

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Microsoft Viva Topics brings knowledge to workers in the apps they use every day. We’re continuing to build new capabilities for Viva Topics.  Our most recent update is integration with Yammer.


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Yammer integration


Yammer is integrating with and adopting Viva Topics to make community-sourced knowledge easily accessible across an organization and support a consistent experience in Microsoft 365. Among others, this provides the following benefits for an organization:



  • Topics will mean  and refer to the same subject – whether in Yammer, Viva Topics, or elsewhere in Microsoft 365.

  • Premium Viva Topics experiences like topic cards will show in Yammer.

  • Premium Viva Topics experiences like pages and cards will include content from Yammer such as questions and answers, and conversations.

  • Topics can be managed centrally.

  • Permissions can be managed for who gets to create or edit topics.


Users with the appropriate licensing will see topics in Yammer enhanced with Viva Topics experiences, such as topic cards, while unlicensed users can continue to use topics in Yammer the way they are used to. Only Yammer networks in Native Mode networks are eligible for the premium Viva Topics experiences. Learn more about the Yammer Topic API changes in this article.


 


We’ll continue to expand Microsoft Viva’s capabilities. Keep an eye out for new blog posts or register for our newsletter to stay up to date on the latest feature releases.