Category: Yammer

Currently, Yammer has two related features available for categorizing knowledge: topics and hashtags. Topics are a useful tool to organize, curate, and reference knowledge within and across communities. Anyone can affix a topic to a conversation by using the “Add Topics” option during or after posting. So, what is Yammer? What is Yammer? What is […]

Yammer for Windows and Mac. The desktop app is a native client for Mac and Windows with the full functionality of Yammer. Along with streamlined log in and SSO support, the app integrates with native operating system capabilities such as notifications, shortcuts, and launch on startup. As Microsoft’s first app built from the ground up […]

Burnt ends at Gates really are the fatty trimmings from the smoked beef. This sandwich actually includes a portion of regular sliced smoked beef. The ribs at Gates are among the smokier specimens you’ll find in Kansas City. The single-serving “Yammer” pieis very sweet, and very good. This of course begs the inquiry “What is […]

Click the Yammer tile in Microsoft 365. At the bottom-left corner of the screen, select Create a Community. Under Community Name, enter the name of your community. Tips: Use a short name so that it is easy for people to scan the list of communities. Under Members, enter the names or email addresses of anyone […]

Yammer can also be used by leadership to hold org-wide town hall meetings. It integrates other Office 365 apps & makes the workplace more social. As part of Microsoft’s initiative to make Office 365 more social, the company started rolling apps and services together. Yammer is a social networking tool for connecting and engaging with […]

Real time engagement and discussion is a core functionality of Yammer. However, occasionally, you may need to schedule a Yammer post. By creating a Microsoft Flow workflow you can set it up to post to Yammer at a specific time. You can add topics to the post. If you are an admin, you can also […]

Be sure to consider the reasoning behind your post, supporting text and materials, publication time and the group you will publish the post to. Remember, if your goal on Yammer is to engage your colleagues, then you must also be engaged. For networks in Delete mode, content that is deleted will be removed after 30 […]

Yammer and Teams are most often used for internal communications. Consequently, their user bases are more or less similar. Both Yammer and Teams have people with subscribers ranging from small and medium businesses to large enterprises. Both applications group their conversations in serial order. Yammer and Teams differ in the ways they are used for […]

With all these apps — and even many more across the Microsoft spectrum — feature overlap is expected. For that reason, Microsoft Teams could someday replace Outlook and Yammer, according to Irwin Lazar, an industry analyst at Nemertes Research, based in Mokena, Ill. Yammer, in particular, could be the next consolidation target. Here is what […]

Creating dynamic groups requires using Power. Shell to change the associated Active Directory group to make it dynamic. Only Microsoft 365 connected Yammer groups can be set up as dynamic groups. This means you must be enforcing Microsoft 365 or Office 365 identity in Yammer, and your Yammer network must have existing Microsoft 365 connected […]