The new Viva Connections Home Experience and how to transition from your SharePoint Home Site

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# Viva Home starts rolling out to targeted release tenants this week

The new Viva Connections Home Experience and how to transition from your SPO Home Site with PowerShell

Chris Hoard MVP a good day working on security for cloud and servers, tidying up old DevOps tasks, and is looking forward to trying out the new Viva Home experience in their tenant. They have had PowerShell in place for a few weeks and have been checking back daily for the new experience. They mention that for new implementations of Viva Connections, the Home Experience should be there by default but it can be transitioned using PowerShell for existing Home Sites. The author advises that organizations may want to test the transition in a dev environment before implementing it and that some reconfiguration may be necessary.

This blog will cover

Getting the Home Site URL
Configuring SharePoint PowerShell
Transitioning to the Viva Home Experience
Transitioning back to the Home Site

Prerequisites

Tenant is on Targeted Release
Viva Connections is set up with a SPO Home Site Configured
SharePoint Administrator or Global Administrator for PowerShell
Microsoft 365 Licence for Teams and Viva Connections Testing

Teams Real Simple with Pictures: It’s here – the new Viva Connections Home Experience and how to transition from your SPO Home Site with PowerShell – @Microsoft365Pro

More about Viva Connections Home Experience

The new Viva Connections Home Experience is a personalized, unified experience designed to help users stay connected and informed. It combines the power of Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Yammer, Streams and more into one easy-to-use interface. With Viva Connections Home Experience users can quickly access their favorite tools from any device using the same familiar look and feel across all platforms.