Internal Video Where Employees Already Are

What you can do together

• Deliver internal video inside Viva Connections and Viva Learning rather than at a second destination.
• Publish a page broadly while a restricted video inside it stays visible only to those entitled.
• Embed a browsable library view, not only a single player.
• Decide which system is the governed library before two of them exist.
• Keep a copied link from becoming a lasting route to the file, since content URLs are signed and expire.

How it connects

Players and library views embed into Viva Connections and Viva Learning, so video is delivered where employees already work, under the platform's own access control and with engagement measured centrally. The documented widget set covers video, audio, image, document, collection and playlist players, library gallery and detail views, and a mashup filter, so a Viva surface can carry a single announcement video or a browsable view of a whole library.

The embed resolves against the viewer's identity, which is the part that matters inside an intranet. A video restricted in the library renders for those entitled and is simply absent for everyone else, so a Viva page can be published broadly without the video becoming broadly visible. Embedding is restricted to the domains the portal names, and content URLs are signed and expire, with the player refreshing its token so a long briefing plays through. Embed analytics report which sites carry an item, with the view count and the last playback from each.

Files take a different route from the embed. The embed places library content in Viva, and Viva's own content stays in Viva. Where files are involved they come through SharePoint and OneDrive, which serve as sources and export destinations, and Teams recordings ingest automatically. Microsoft 365 also stores and plays video, so where the boundary sits with Microsoft's own video handling is worth deciding early: an organization running both needs to know which is the governed library and which is incidental, and answering that late is how two libraries end up existing.