Hello everyone! As we head into the summer season, we’re thrilled to announce some exciting new updates to Viva Pulse. Our team has been hard at work developing new features that we think you’ll love, and we can’t wait to hear your thoughts. Please feel free to share your feedback with us in the comments below!

Template & Question Management

Admins are now able to customize the survey templates and questions for all users within their company, including creation of new templates and questions for your organization! Admins, please check out this learn document for more information about how to get started with this new capability.   

Confidential 1:1 Conversations in Viva Pulse Reports

Our research indicates that the most important need for authors once their Pulse closes is to be able to gather additional context based on their reports. Viva Pulse authors can now respond to open text responses in their Viva Pulse reports by having 1:1 conversation with participants, who can respond in an unidentified way. This new capability will help authors gather more context about the open text responses and decide on the next steps. This capability is currently in Private Preview; if you are interested in participating, please reach out to srinivasansr@microsoft.com.

Viva Pulse Card in Connections

Does your organization use Viva Connections? If so, we’re excited to announce the very first integration between Viva Pulse & Viva Connections. Viva Connections Operators can now add a Pulse card to the Connections Dashboard, enabling licensed Pulse users to easily access Pulse to create feedback requests and review results.

Operators, you can find more information on how to turn this new integration on for your organization here.

New Templates and Questions

Customers are seeking well-written survey questions to help them understand a wide variety of timely topics for their teams and organization. We are releasing 32 new questions focused on uncovering opportunities to improve workplace dynamics, personal development and employee engagement. Additionally, we are releasing 3 new templates to help authors better understand and drive performance empowerment, townhall meeting effectiveness, and progress after Glint surveys.

Viva Pulse Requests for Large Audiences

Customers have shared the feedback that they would like to send Pulse requests to larger audiences, for example after Town Hall meetings within their organization. We heard you! Pulse requests can now be sent to large audiences, up to 10k. We will be increasing this limit to 100k in July. Users can send requests to M365 groups where they have the appropriate ‘send’ privileges.

Scheduled Pulses

Survey authors can now schedule both a single and a recurring series of Pulses! This means users no longer need to create and send their Pulses in one sitting or remember to come back into the Pulse app to send their survey to their teams. Click here to learn more about this new capability.

eDiscovery & M365 Audit support for Viva Pulse

Global Administrators and users with elevated privileges can now export Viva Pulse data via eDiscovery premium capabilities in Microsoft Purview. Administrators can also view the event log for Pulse events as part of Audit capabilities in Microsoft Purview. You can find more information about Pulse audit events schema here.

Thank you for reading! If you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to comment. Furthermore, if you would like to get involved with Viva Pulse, please reach out to srinivasansr@microsoft.com to learn about our customer engagement opportunities.

Until Next Time,

Viva Pulse Team

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