Viva Engage User Reviews

Viva Engage
Viva Engage
Microsoft Corporation

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We are a small charity and started use MS Office solutions recently.
We are exploring the different applications including Viva engage. Since there is not much activities happening, it is easy to get checked everything on Viva BUT! Although, I have literally went through every single menu points to check what is the "one new notification" the app badge shows, I have found nothing. I have reinstalled the app. The badge is still there. I have checked Viva on my laptop. No new notification.
This is annoying as I have to check the app continuously to see if there truly is something new.
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Worst app

Impossible to connect

Requires a few improvements

The mobile/tablet app on iOS needs to be able to add/edit/remove topic labels. It’s seems baffling that this hasn’t been done already.

The other thing I’ve noticed is that the community header images aren’t responsive, nor in the same ratio as the desktop/Teams version. This also needs to be sorted before I can rate it any higher. Thanks.
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Poor - embarrassing Microsoft

Generally buggy, photo’s take forever to load, if they load at all (wifi or data and any location). Can’t organize order of them. So many basics that seem not to really work - hard to believe it’s a Microsoft application.

Ugh

I love the concept of the app. I really do. One thing that would make it great is if it was in order of things posted. I dislike that the first thing I see is from 4 days to something that was posted weeks ago to something posted that day and so on. If that could get fixed, that would be super great!
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Unable to sign in

Since the app has changed to Viva Engage, I am unable to sign in to the app using my work email address and work password and this is the error I receive when I try to sign in

“You cannot access this right now
Your sign-in was successful, but does not meet the criteria to access this resource. For example, you might be signing in from a browser, app or location that is restricted by your admin”
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Conversion from Yammer

The update to Viva from Yammer no longer recognizes my login credentials?? Useless

Great for networking within the company in a fun way.

Great way to interact with other members of your company in a positive way. Been able to network with people within the company in different areas of the company I would not have met in traditional ways. Only negative thing I have to complain about is not being able to upload a profile picture through the app.
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Response from developer

We appreciate your kind words, it's great to hear that you've been able to use the platform to connect with your colleagues! We've noted down your feedback to make this possible through the app - at the moment you can update your profile picture from your profile page in Microsoft Delve. For more information, please visit - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/new-yammer-change-my-yammer-profile-and-settings-ab813bce-5312-4688-94ee-70018545cd3c

No background audio & full screen doesn’t work

It baffles me how this app on iPhone or iPad will not allow audio in the background on live streams in our large corporation.

On iPad with live streams, the full screen does nothing and the video remains very small.

Of course the streaming video always buffers and pauses, but this is more likely to do with back end service than the app, but I really have come to hate Yammer and most MS collab apps more than WebEx, which I thought I would never say.
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Response from developer

Hi, we are sorry that you are facing this issue. Could you contact us via the support page so that we can try and reproduce this issue? You can also reach out to us directly via yammer-ios-team@microsoft.com.

Great tool - But the comments doesn’t work/display as expected…

Why not showing the Latest Comment for a post instead of some arbitrary comment submitted halfway through the conversation?
I find it annoying having to select ‘n more answers’ to see the latest part/post of a conversation.

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