Microsoft also is introducing a few personal expression tools that are meant to be part of the Viva community experience: Storyline, Stories and Video Clip. Storyline and Stories build on top of OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Stream video service. Storylines are meant to create posts with links, files, photos and videos and will be available to users in Viva Connections, Outlook, Teams and Yammer. The feeds of these posts will be available via a new Storylines tab. Stories are short videos or photos that users can share and upload quickly, officials said. Video Clip leverages Stream technology but has nothing to do with Microsoft’s Cliphamp video production technology. Video Clip will allow users to record and send short video messages in Teams Chat easily. Officials said that Video Clip will be in preview in August and generally available in September. Microsoft plans to make Engage available to existing Microsoft 365 commercial customers for no additional charge. But users must have a Yammer license in order to use the app. Officials said that Microsoft also plans to rebrand the Communities app for Teams as “Viva Engage” in late August. Viva Engage will be available within the Teams mobile apps for iOS and Android (like the Communities app is now). Finally, if you’re wondering whether Connections and now Engage mean the end of Yammer, the answer is no. From one of Microsoft’s blog posts today about Engage: “The Yammer web experience and the native Yammer mobile apps will continue to be a part of Microsoft 365 SKUs, and the same communities, storylines, and stories are made available through both Yammer, and the new Viva Engage app. We are continuing to invest in Yammer and bring the powers of Yammer to Microsoft 365 and Viva.”
