Kids are getting back to school and life is picking up pace, and so are we at Orchestry. September has been an incredibly busy month for all of us, but our Development team has kicked it up a few notches with a massive collection of new features and functionality they ideated, built, tested, and deployed.
You heard it right. Orchestry now offers Viva Engage template creation and provisioning capabilities. But what does that mean? Until recently, Orchestry users could leverage a library of pre-build Microsoft Teams and SharePoint templates or build their own bespoke ones.
With the latest Orchestry product release, we are thrilled to offer our customers the ability to create and deploy Viva Engage templates to their users leveraging our incredibly powerful and user-friendly provisioning engine.
Viva Engage is gaining popularity as an employee engagement, culture, and community-building tool. More and more organizations are starting to leverage it for a variety of use cases. As with many employee engagement tools, autonomy of usage is imperative to get people excited about actually using it. This is why Orchestry's controlled self-service provisioning of Viva Engage has been such a hit with our customers and partners already.
You can read more about this new and much-awaited functionality in our blog.
On top of Viva Engage provisioning we wanted to give our customers and partners all the insights into them they already get for Microsoft Teams and SharePoint sites.
Orchestry customers and partners are now able to see all existing and newly created Viva Engage communities in workspace insights. Without having to dig through a single Admin Center, they can easily access details like:
For ease of management, Viva Engage Community insights in Orchestry have quick links to the SharePoint site, Community documents, and Azure AD admin.
When we first demonstrated the Viva Engage Provisioning functionality to a group of Orchestry's customers and partners, the very first question (right after "this is incredibly cool" comments) was - "Are you going to offer lifecycle management and automated archiving capabilities for them as well?".
Many of you may be familiar with a ridiculously powerful functionality of Orchestry - automated archiving of Microsoft Teams and SharePoint sites.
Orchestry admins can easily create robust automated archiving policies including 2-step archiving and apply them to Teams and SharePoint sites. This functionality not only reduces the burden of managing M365 workspaces for the IT team but also helps effectively keep content sprawl in check.
Naturally, hearing how adamant our customers were about implementing this functionality for Viva Engage Communities, we set out on the mission to get it done.
Creating Viva Engage archiving policies is a piece of cake with only a couple of steps to configure. Once the policy is created, the admins can assign it in bulk to all or some existing Viva Engage Communities and apply them to Viva Engage templates.
Workspace Directory has always been one of the more understated features of Orchestry, yet one of the most loved ones by end users.
It allows end users to easily search all Teams and SharePoint sites within a single directory, and with very little effort. Most users appreciate how much the Directory improves findability of workspaces as well as transparency, and actually inherently reduces duplication of workspaces.
Now Viva Engage Communities are available and accessible in Orchestry's Workspace Directory, so end users can easily search and access them.
Orchestry dedicated the month of September to publishing a whole collection of engaging content about Viva Engage.