Category: Yammer

Without a doubt, Yammer is a great tool to use meant to break down silos and encourage employees to connect and engage with one another. It’s also a great place for employees, regardless of department or location, to connect on issues that affect their company globally. A frequent question we ran across in our research […]

Yammer helps you connect and engage across your organization, so you can discuss ideas, share updates, and network with others. Yammer is a unique social networking service designed with enterprise communication in mind. Yammer was created by a company called Geni with the sole purpose of helping employees connect and communicate across their organization. Use […]

Quick start Go to the Yammer admin center. Or, in Yammer, click the Yammer settings icon, and then click Network Admin. Click the links in the New Network Checklist to get started. Yes I can open it from the start menu, or check the ‘open on startup’ option in Yammer. In both cases it starts […]

Disable Yammer in your Office 365 tenant Sign in to Office 365 with your work or school account. Go to the Microsoft 365 admin center. On the Home page, click Active users. On the Active users page select a user for whom you want to disable Yammer. On the User pane choose Edit next to […]

We do see the Create Live event option in a Yammer – Office 365 Groups group and we are able to run a Live event as explained but we are not able to create a Live event from within a classic Yammer group without using Teams. Ideally we do want to have the Live event […]

Yammer is rolling out changes to file storage for Yammer files in Microsoft 365 connected groups. Formerly, all Yammer files were stored in Yammer cloud storage. Once your organization gets these changes, all new Yammer files for connected groups will be stored in Share. Point, but will still accessed from within Yammer. While we were […]

Here’s how to use [group: ID ] to mention a group as an active link in a Yammer post*: Look at the URL of the group you want to mention. Copy ONLY the ID number that comes at the end of this part of the string: Start typing your post in the update box of […]

Yammer and Teams differ in the ways they are used for communication. Microsoft suggests the use of Yammer for “ outer loop” communication while Teams for the “inner loop ”. The loop is the reference to the number of people typically involved in a communication. The divergence between the two applications begins with the audience. […]

A Yammer network admin can make you a community admin of a public community but can only make you a community admin of a private community if they belong to that community. To find Yammer admins for your organization, select the Yammer Settings icon, select People, and then select View network admins. You could be […]

Teams is focused on both one-to-many communication through channels as well as one-to-one messaging. In terms of purpose, Yammer is more suited for company-wide announcements with its social network features while Teams is perfect for small team communication needs within the organization with its robust messaging capabilities. This is what we learned. Teams are generally […]