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Embed RSS news feed web part into SharePoint or Viva Connections (Updated 2025)
Despite first being released in 1999 (yeah, a quarter of a century ago) RSS feeds are still a go-to format to syndicate news from different sources. This makes it also an ideal tool to show local news, weather, traffic updates, and more to users of your intranet. SharePoint used to offer a built-in RSS reader web part, but it was broken for many years until it was removed in 2024 alongside other SharePoint Connectors. From the SharePoint store: RSS feeds web part Luckily there is an easy replacement available directly on Microsoft AppSource: RSS feed web part for SharePoint. It’s…
Top 4 SharePoint Dashboard Apps
Dashboards have traditionally been a staple for real-time data visualizations, of interest mostly to business intelligence users, data analysts or perhaps marketers.
The best replacements for Outlook’s Calendar Board
In June ’23 Microsoft – after just two years – will retire Calendar Board, Outlook’s special calendar view (available on the web version only) that let you add widgets to a personal dashboard. You had a choice of about a dozen different widgets and could arrange them anyway you liked, but the experience was always a little finicky and never saw 3rd party widget support. Released in 2021 at a similar time to Viva Connections, it was showing a degree of UI polish that suggested – when first released – Microsoft was indeed very committed to the idea of creating…
The 6 best apps for Viva Connections
Viva Connections’ dashboard is a fresh, new take on an intranet dashboard. Available both on SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, in a recent overhaul the dashboard has become even more central on the Viva homepage. This area is therefore coming into the focus of many admins and comms teams who discover that you can not just make your own Cards, you can also get Cards that let you connect to other work tools. This promises to improve the usability of your new intranet homepage, so in this post we’ll look at the 6 best apps for Viva Connections for improving your…
How to add apps to Viva Connections dashboard
Viva Connections is the new gateway to other Viva services within Microsoft’s new suite of employee experience tools and resources. The Dashboard, specifically, shows users little summaries of other Viva services as a way conveniently track one metrics and jump right into relevant resources. Administrators can create their own Cards for the Dashboard, by adding Card designer Cards to the Dashboard. These take any Adaptive Card schema that you can make yourself from scratch or by editing one of the many templates that are available. However, this built-in Card designer Card has no way to connect to any data sources…
6 things about Viva Connections admins should know
With tools that help you learn, share knowledge, maintain wellbeing, and more, Viva is the name for Microsoft’s push into the employee experience space. Viva Connections, specifically, aims to be a gateway to all the other Viva services, with their more specialized UIs, and generally a hub for all kinds of relevant content for the user. In this blog post we’ll specifically talk about Viva Connections and whether it’s a product you should consider deploying to your Microsoft 365. Viva Connections is really two products Viva Connections consists of your Feed and your Dashboard. The Feed is pretty self-explanatory: it’s…