What Is Outlook Yammer?

Yammer Social Network

The social networking service is designed for enterprise communication. The company Geni created the company called Yammer with the sole purpose of helping employees connect and communicate across their organization. It was a huge success and was later expanded to become a company and a product.

Microsoft acquired Yammer in 2012 after it caught the attention of many eager buyers. 85% of the 500 largest companies in the world use Microsoft's new product in their Office365 suite. You can think of it as a social network for corporate communication.

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Creating Connected Microsoft Windows Groups

Office 365 identity must be enforced for users of Yammer. The trial period is when you first enforce Office 365 identity and the status of your Office 365 identity enforcement changes to committed. If you want to make sure that all of your groups are connected, you should align your network to Native Mode.

See the Overview of Native Mode for more information. All groups that meet the criteria are converted to connected groups when your network becomes eligible. If your network has Microsoft group creation policies applied, you can add a group admin with group creation permission, and the group is not automatically connected.

You can submit a support request to have all eligible groups connected. A new group and resources are created for that group when you create a Microsoft 365 connected group. You can't connect a new group to an existing group, a document library, or a notebook.

Why does Yammer matter? How to improve employee engagement and engagement

The tool is used within companies. The platform was originally designed for a genealogy website and was acquired by Microsoft in 2012 to support enterprises. The purpose of Yammer is to look and feel like other social networking sites you might use to communicate with your friends and family.

The number of users who participate in discussions is the main difference between Teams and Yammer. The majority of teams consist of just a few users. As many users as needed can join a group in Yammer, which allows for the communication of the entire company.

Educating employees on the differences between Teams and Yammer is a great way to increase adoption rates. Powell Intranet makes Microsoft 365 more accessible and gives companies better control over governance. You can schedule a demo today.

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Connecting People in Teams and the Discovery Feed

Teams was built to bring together people using productivity tools, and that's what enterprises were looking for when they moved more of their collaboration and communications to the cloud. The tools are in the context of work, rather than having to go to each tool and find the context. The tools from Microsoft and other cloud services are included, because the Yammer communities app for Teams is more about broad connections and interactions across an organisation.

Microsoft keeps increasing the number of people who can be in a Teams team and visible on-screen at the same Teams meeting, but ever bigger teams aren't engaged in the close collaboration that Teams is designed for. The Teams construct is built to help people deliver work, and because of that it's not suited for connecting people in a lightweight way across the organisation in a way that doesn't require attention at every moment," says Holme. If you need to connect 20,000 people, you can use a live event in Microsoft Stream with the conversation in Yammer, or just create the right Yammer communities.

If people are spending their time in Teams, Outlook or SharePoint, they can access Yammer there as well. Outlook integration is more advanced in the web client than in the desktop Outlook, but "90% of theFunctionality is identical and we'll be finishing the last stretch over the next coming months," says the project leader. The same code is used inside Teams and the Yammer that you see is the same code.

The communities app can be pinned to the left rail or as a tab in a team. In a SharePoint page, a web part called Yammer can be placed to add conversations alongside news and other resources. Microsoft Stream powers the embedded experience where videos play.

There are more options for employees to use in the future, and they can do more than like a post. The Discovery feed is powered by the Microsoft Graph and machine learning and shows conversations and communities that are relevant to the organisation. "That's based on important communities in your organisation as well as communities that you belong to because you don't have to be a member of a community to see conversations."

Yammer: Engaging and Engaged News

Comments are turned on for news posts if they invite employees to engage with the information. The comments are connected to the page itself, eliminating the challenges of reply-all threads and aligning all responses in one location. Yammer is great supporting serendipitous connections across your organization and creating communities for knowledge sharing, special interest groups, or communities of practice in an informal setting.

When run by interested parties, Yammer communities are most successful. In an organization with open communication, Yammer is an excellent place to socialize, crowd source ideas and solutions, informally share updates, increase communication between executives and employees, and break down silos. You can make a team that supports 10,000 members.

The org-wide team members will be automatically added and removed when individuals join or leave the company. Smaller organizations may find it useful to communicate and collaborate in the same place as Teams are meant for. News posts from the company may be added to a tab in the org-wide Team or added as a link to the associated SharePoint site, so that they can be seen by other teams.

Communication can have a variety of intents from an update on the business to a call-to-action for involvement in a project. Each communication channel supports a different context of working, which should be used to support your message. More formal updates from a small number of authors are supported by the news, which is typically informative with no action items.

The level of engagement is lower as people share their reactions to the news in the comments and are not expanding the conversation. Teams can have a tab in Yammer. Employees will find it easier to navigate to another app if your intranet homepage is embedded with Yammer.