Overview of Skills in Viva

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Skills in Viva is an AI-powered service in the Microsoft Viva Suite that delivers personalized skills-based experiences throughout supported Microsoft 365 and Viva applications for employees, business leaders, and HR.

It uses data from Microsoft 365 profiles and the Microsoft Graph combined with skills from the LinkedIn Skills Graph to predict a user’s skills and offer tailored skill suggestions to users. At the same time, Skills in Viva provides you with a better understanding of your organization’s current workforce skills distribution. Learn more about Skills in Viva.

If you’d like to learn more or apply for the Skills in Viva preview, contact your Microsoft representative.

Prerequisites

To help ensure a productive preview that enables Skills in Viva to meet and exceed your company's goals, the following are the requirements for private preview participation:

  • Private preview must be deployed on a production tenant where users are spending at least 80% of their time on emails, documents, and other Microsoft 365 and Viva applications.
  • More than 100 users who are licensed for either Viva Suite or Viva Learning.

Note

Private preview is available only in English (en-US).

Admin roles

The following roles and permissions are required to set up Skills in Viva. Review the documentation for assigning roles.

Roles Permissions
Microsoft 365 Global Administrator Microsoft 365 Global Administrator has global access to most management features and data across Microsoft online services. For Skills in Viva, the Microsoft 365 Global Administrator can configure and manage your organization’s skills library related settings from the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Knowledge Administrator The Knowledge Administrator needs to be assigned by the Microsoft 365 Global Administrator or the Privileged Role Administrator. The Knowledge Administrator can configure and your organization’s skills library and related settings from the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Sharing and management of Skills data

See Set up Skills in Viva and Manage your skills library for information about how Skills data is shared and managed.

Note

When individual users confirm skills in their skills experience available at Skills in Viva, those skills will be visible to people in your organization when they use upcoming skills-related experiences in Microsoft 365, such as the profile card and other Microsoft Viva products.

Next steps

Set up Skills in Viva

Manage your skills library