The Microsoft Viva Admin Experience is here

So, Viva? I haven't written a lot about it on this blog, have I? And when it's comes down to it that's probably because I spend a lot of my blogging time keeping up to date with Teams. But since Teams has been a bit quieter lately - at least in terms of the features I use or want to know more about I thought this would be an opportunity for something that caught my eye and something which is currently rolling out. This is the new Viva Admin Experience. Now, I am pretty much what you would call a second wave Viva advocate. I wasn't in with the first lot because I was just so focused on everything else Microsoft 365. And to be honest, the Viva apps which have been my ingress into both the Viva stack and the Viva community have been Goals and Sales, ones which I now use every day. Of course, prior to this I've deployed Connections many times - even when you had to create the Connections app via PowerShell, and setup and configured both Insights and Topics. I've even got a Viva course in the portfolio which has now been taught for over a year. But Goals and Sales gave me the bug, and now I do a ton of community work on Viva (albeit almost all directly with Microsoft). Needless to say, I'm very excited about all of the apps announced back in September - Amplify, Pulse, Answers and Storylines. It's a bright future. And with the rapid expansion it seems prudent to create an admin experience, where we'll likely see a set of granular role-based admin roles for the stack. This is because governance is important - and what we can refer to as horizontal experiences - functionality across the stack - will be important too.