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Summary
Microsoft Viva Pulse will introduce delegation starting mid-August 2025, allowing users to assign delegates to manage Pulse surveys on their behalf. Delegates can create, send, and view surveys and reports but cannot access confidential conversations or share reports. Admins can control delegation settings centrally.
Details
Updated August 11, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience.
We're introducing a new delegation capability in Microsoft Viva Pulse to support executive assistants, chiefs of staff, and other designated roles who act on behalf of organizational leaders. Starting mid-August 2025 (previously mid-July), users will be able to assign delegates to manage the Pulse survey lifecycle on their behalf—helping streamline feedback collection and analysis.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 479753
When this will happen:
General Availability (Worldwide): Rollout begins mid-August 2025 (previously mid-July).
How this will affect your organization:
Delegation will be enabled by default. This feature allows a user (the delegator) to authorize another user (the delegate) to create, send, and manage Pulse surveys. Delegators retain full visibility and ownership of all activity.
Admins can manage delegation settings at the tenant, group (via Microsoft Entra ID or Microsoft 365 groups), or individual user level using centralized feature access management.
Delegates will be able to:
- Create and send Pulses on behalf of the delegator. Recipients will see that the Pulse was sent on their behalf.
- View all Pulses (sent or drafted) and Pulse reports.
Delegates will not be able to:
- View or respond to confidential conversations.
- Share Pulse reports.
What you can do to prepare:
No admin action is required before rollout. However, we recommend:
- Reviewing your current configuration to assess impact.
- Notifying users and updating internal documentation.
- Managing delegation policies in the Microsoft 365 admin center or via PowerShell using the
FeatureIDvaluePulseDelegation.
Learn more:
- Microsoft Viva - Feature access management | Microsoft Learn
- Control who can access features in Microsoft 365 using the Microsoft 365 admin center
- Control access to features in Microsoft 365 using PowerShell
We’ll update this post with setup documentation before rollout completes.
Compliance considerations:
- Changes to data processing/storage/access: Yes - Delegates gain access to Pulse survey content and reports on behalf of the delegator.