Meeting exclusions in Viva Insights
Important
This article is for the legacy Workplace Analytics app and does not reflect functionality available on the updated Viva Insights platform. Access current documentation for Viva Insights advanced insights here: advanced insights documentation.
Microsoft Viva Insights uses email and calendar activities that are stored in a person's Microsoft 365 account to reveal internal and external collaboration trends. However, a person's calendar and email can contain a diverse set of activities (such as personal meetings, work-related social activities, all-day training meetings, and so forth) that are not relevant to work-related collaboration, and, if included in the metrics, would skew query results.
You use meeting exclusion rules to exclude particular types of collaboration data from analysis. This data can be about meetings that were scheduled or about attendee responses to those meetings. See Select exclusion type.
Note
There is a problem with meetings that have more than 250 participants. For more information, see Meeting exclusion rules: Large-meeting limitation.
Meeting exclusion rules are used in Viva Insights to help ensure that query results accurately represent relevant meeting norms within the organization.
Video: Learn about meeting exclusion rules
Viva Insights provides a default meeting exclusion rule that excludes a set of meetings that would commonly fall outside of relevant collaboration for analysis. Analysts can also use the meeting exclusion feature to create custom meeting exclusion rules.
To learn how to create and use meeting exclusion rules, see the following:
Meeting exclusion rule walkthroughs describe how to View meeting exclusion rules, Create a meeting exclusion rule, Edit a draft rule, Select which rule to use, Duplicate a rule, and Archive a rule.
Meeting exclusion rule concepts and tools: Describes screen elements and concepts whose understanding can help you create and use meeting exclusion rules.