Creating a Viva Engage community

Creating a Viva Engage community allows users within your organization to connect, share information, and collaborate on specific topics or projects. Communities are vital for fostering engagement, facilitating communication, and building a sense of belonging among members.

Getting ready

To follow the steps in this recipe, you must be either a Global or Engage Administrator or a Microsoft 365 user with permission to create Microsoft 365 groups (determined by your administrators).

How to do it…

1. Navigate to the Viva Engage home page at https://engage.cloud.microsoft/ or by navigating to https://microsoft365.com and selecting Viva Engage from your app launcher (nine-dot grid icon in the upper-left corner).
2. Select Communities from the left navigation menu and then scroll to the bottom and select Create a community, as shown in Figure 10.11:

Figure 10.11 – Location of option to create a new...