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How to Show the Latest SharePoint News in Viva Connections Banner
Question details
The user wants to display the most recent posts from organizational news sites in the Viva Connections top banner, rather than outdated news from a single site.
- Product
- Microsoft Viva Connections
- Device & OS
- not provided
- Scenario
- Managing internal communications and organizational news visibility within Microsoft Viva Connections.
- Observed behavior
- The top banner displays older news from one site instead of the latest organizational news. Recent posts only appear in the Feed tab if they are manually boosted.
Ensure you have SharePoint administrator privileges and that your target communication sites are officially registered as organizational news sources.
Verify Organizational News Sites and Boost Posts
Ensure that your target SharePoint sites are registered as organizational news sources and use the boost feature to prioritize visibility.
Viva Connections prioritizes content from officially designated organizational news sites. Even when configured correctly, system caching may delay the appearance of new posts.
Navigate to the SharePoint admin center and verify that the required communication sites are configured as official organizational news sites.
Publish a new news post on the configured site and allow sufficient time for the SharePoint search and Viva Connections cache to update.
Select the newly published post and use the 'Boost' feature in the command bar to force the news to appear prominently in the Feed tab and banner.
Refresh the Viva Connections interface on your desktop or mobile client to see if the latest boosted news is now properly displayed in the top banner.
Escalate to Microsoft Support
If the banner continues to display outdated content after verifying settings and boosting posts, a service configuration issue requires Microsoft intervention.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why is my Viva Connections feed not updating immediately?
Viva Connections relies on SharePoint search indexing and caching mechanisms. This architecture can sometimes cause a delay of up to 24 hours before new organizational news surfaces in the feed or top banner.
How do I set a SharePoint site as an organizational news site?
A SharePoint administrator can designate a site as an authoritative organizational news source by using the Set-SPOOrgNewsSite PowerShell cmdlet, which elevates the site's news content across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
What does boosting a SharePoint news post actually do?
Boosting a news post increases its visibility by pinning it to the top of the news feed and Viva Connections dashboard. You can configure the boost to last for a specific duration or until the post receives a set number of views.
