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Symptoms
You will see many notifications in Microsoft Teams about news published on sites from Microsoft SharePoint. These notifications link to the Microsoft Viva Connections app in Teams.
Cause
The Viva Connections app delivers notifications in Teams about SharePoint news posts. The notifications link to the Viva Connections app, where you can read the news.
Due to a recent update, the Viva Connections app is now pre-installed for all Teams users. So, you will now receive notifications about SharePoint News when:
- News is posted to a SharePoint team site or communication site that you follow or that someone who works closely with you follows.
- News that is targeted at you is boosted.
- Someone comments on a new news article you’ve posted.
- Someone “likes” a news article you’ve posted.
- Someone is @mentioned in a comment on a news article you posted.
Alternative solution
Viva Connections notifications follow your Teams notification settings, including your quiet hours settings.
You can control which notifications you want to receive in the following ways:
- In Teams desktop and Teams on the web, you can selectively enable or disable specific notification types in Configuration>Notifications and activities>Applications>Viva Connections. This setting is also respected on Teams mobile devices.
- On Teams mobile devices, you cannot selectively enable or disable notifications. However, you can toggle all push notifications (including Viva connections) in the Teams mobile app at Configuration notifications>Applications>of activity>general en Teams. Even after disabling notifications, they are still visible in your Teams activity feed.
Use
There is no organization-wide method for an administrator to control Live Connections notifications.
