Using Viva Goals in an organization with a dedicated ticketing/tasks system could be tricky. Your employees will need to update tasks in one system and do check-ins with Viva Goals. Using the integration feature you can configure the ticketing/tasks system to automatically update Viva Goals. Employees will use their system and you will get data in Goals!
Microsoft Viva Goals is now generally available. Viva Goals offers a lot of interesting features and integration with external systems, but in this post, I go through the basic setup and configuration. I will show you how to configure an organization and start working with objectives and key results.
Microsoft announced a new member of the Viva suite – Viva Engage. It is a new place where you can build community, share knowledge, build internal networks, and engage with leadership. It will get a dedicated Teams application. Viva Engage is built on top of Yammer and will provide similar features and functionalities. But what about Yammer itself – will it be discontinued, rebranded, or changed?
The brand-new AI-powered feature is available in Power Apps – Express design. Create a design using a tool or piece of paper, upload the image to the Power Apps portal, and it’s… almost done. I tested it for a few hours with different designs and it looks good. It has limitations and beta functions, but I think that it’s worth checking. So, let’s go and play with Express design!
Microsoft released more than 50 new features and updates during Build 2022. The conference is focused on developer services and products, but we got a lot of updates related to Teams and Power Platform. This post is focused on those updates, so let’s go!
If you want to search for a specific pattern in a text, the best choice is to use regular expressions. You can find ready-to-use patterns and quickly implement them in your case. But what to do if you want to use it in Power Automate? You don’t need to use 3rd party tools or a premium license – there is one action that you can leverage to use RegEx in your Flows.
It’s not easy to follow all new features released in Teams. Microsoft announces and releases multiple new features each month. April was dominated by the mighty one feature – Shared Channels, but it wasn’t the only one. New features appeared on the roadmap, some became available in Public Preview, and many were released to all users. Let’s go for a quick review.
One of the most important features has just landed in the Preview mode in Teams – Shared Channels. You can invite your colleagues or people from external organizations directly into a Teams channel. No more dedicated Teams or shared SharePoint folders, and no more switching organizations!
In this post, I will show you how to configure the required features and start to play with Shared Channels.
Microsoft Lists are a great place to store your information, format displayed data, and add logic/automation to them. Now everyone can try Lists using Microsoft Accounts without any paid plans or trials. What is this and how you can use it? Let’s check out Microsoft Lists – MSA Preview.
If you work with SharePoint data in Excel you agree that performance is the key. It is easy to import large lists and connect them but the trick is to keep refresh time at a good level (minutes). Unfortunately, default Excel settings can cause serious performance issues, and figuring out why is not so simple and obvious. In this post, I compared 2 methods of loading SPO lists into Excel so you can avoid performance issues.