Skip to main content
🦉
Message CenterMicrosoft 365 Updates
HomePermissionsTenant FinderPortfolio
🦉
M365 Message Centerby Cengiz YILMAZ

Track the latest updates, features, and announcements for Microsoft 365 services. Comprehensive archive of service updates and important changes.

Quick Links

HomePermissionsTenant FinderPortfolio

Connect

© 2026 M365 Message Center. Created with ❤️ by Cengiz YILMAZ

Data sourced from Microsoft 365 Message Center • Not affiliated with Microsoft

  1. Home
  2. /
  3. MC971030

Microsoft Viva Engage: New features for Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption community

Informational

Message ID

MC971030
View in Admin Center

Services

Microsoft Viva

Summary

Microsoft Viva Engage is introducing new features to support Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption, including question recommendations and admin controls to manage community features. The rollout begins mid-January 2025 and completes by mid-February 2025. No action is required from admins before the rollout.

Details

Updated January 9, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon to the Microsoft Viva Engage adoption community for Microsoft 365 Copilot, users will receive recommendations of similar questions and answers when composing a question, leveraging the collective knowledge of the Copilot topic across all of Engage to help them find what they're looking for faster. Additionally, admins will have the ability to remove adoption features from the existing community and apply them to a new or different community.

Since general availability in August 2024 (referenced in MC784156), network admins and corporate communicators can enable a new type of community specifically built to facilitate the rollout and adoption of Copilot in their organizations. This community can bring employees together in a community of practice where employees can ask questions, seek support from both their peers and IT admins, share best practices, and learn more from articles and quick tips on how best to use Copilot.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 (previously early January) and expect to complete by mid-February 2025 (previously early February). 

How this will affect your organization:

When composing a question in the Copilot adoption community, users will soon have access to a new feature that provides a list of recommended similar questions that have been asked and answered across all of Viva Engage. Users will soon be able to quickly navigate to existing answers, contribute to recommended questions, or post a new question, leveraging the collective knowledge across their network to find information faster and more efficiently.

Admins who want to remove adoption features from the existing community and apply them to a new or different community can do so by navigating to the ellipses (...) menu on the right side of the community header and selecting Unmark Copilot community. This action will remove all adoption features, including suggested content, suggested members, and the setup checklist, while retaining all other content.

This update is available by default.

What you need to do to prepare:

There is no required action for admins before the rollout. If your organization is working on rollout and adoption of Copilot, we recommend reading the support documentation to learn more about this new capability in Viva Engage and connecting with the Copilot change managers in your organization to include this in your rollout and adoption change management plan.

Learn more:

  • New features in Viva Engage help you rollout and adopt Copilot - Microsoft Community Hub
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption community in Viva Engage | Microsoft Learn

Timeline

📅
Published
Jan 3, 2025
Message published to Message Center
✏️
Updated
Jan 9, 2025
Message content updated
🏁
End Date
Mar 24, 2025
Message timeline ends

Tags

#Updated message#Feature update#User impact#Admin impact

Category

📖Stay Informed

Related Messages

Similar updates

MC979826

Microsoft Viva Connections: Update to app name

Jan 15, 2025
MC1041122

Microsoft Viva Engage: New Communications Dashboard

Mar 25, 2025
MC1188597

Microsoft Viva: Transition to VFAM-based exclusion management

Nov 21, 2025
MC1158895

Microsoft Viva Pulse: Updates to data retention policy

Sep 24, 2025
MC1134179

Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report

Aug 12, 2025