Yammer iOS and Android apps: Navigation Updates

We are updating the Yammer mobile app’s navigation to make it easier for people to jump to their profile, access their Bookmarks, and view and adjust Settings.

When this will happen: 

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Microsoft Viva: Leadership Corner in Viva Engage

This space is an employee’s personalized hub to discover (leader discovery & suggested leaders), see content from (leader stories, activity feed, & sponsored campaigns), and engage with (AMAs & AMA history) their leaders. For more on leadership corner in Viva Engage.

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Get ready for Answers badges in Microsoft Viva.

Answers badges are coming to Viva Engage! People can get recognized by their colleagues through the Answers feature based on the upvotes their questions or answers have earned, or if their answers were marked as the best answer.

These are the 5 different badges that can be earned:

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New Viva Engage Admin experiences releasing next month

Next month, new admin experiences will be available within the Viva Engage Teams app for Microsoft Viva customers.

When this will happen:

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General Availability of Viva Topics for Yammer

We are announcing the General Availability of Viva Topics for our Yammer customers.

The General Availability of Viva Topics for Yammer experiences enables us to leverage a more robust and secure infrastructure for Topics. It also enables organizations to use these Topics outside of Yammer (for example, Topics can be tagged in Teams chats or in Outlook messages).

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Yammer: Improvements to @mentioning behavior

Yammer will soon have an improved @mentioning behavior available. Users will be able to @mention someone just using their first name/last name/or any other permutation.

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Reminder: Private Unlisted Groups Deprecated in Yammer – 1 Day Warning

As part of the Non-Native and Hybrid Yammer Networks being upgraded, Private unlisted (“secret”) groups in Yammer will be retired on December 1, 2022. The retirement of this feature was first announced via the Message Center on September 1, 2022 (MC424414). You can read more about the retirement of Unlisted groups in this blog post which covers the announcement of three features due for deprecation beginning December 1, 2022.

How this will affect your organization:

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Reminder: Private Unlisted Groups in Yammer retirement in 7 Days

As part of the Non-Native and Hybrid Yammer Networks being upgraded, Private unlisted (“secret”) groups in Yammer will be retired on December 1, 2022. The retirement of this feature was first announced via the Message Center on September 1, 2022 (MC424414). You can read more about the retirement of Unlisted groups in this blog post which covers the announcement of three features due for deprecation beginning December 1, 2022.

How this will affect your organization:

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Yammer: Bulk community member import for Native Mode

Ability for Yammer community managers in Native Mode networks to bulk add members to their community using a CSV file.

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Multiple Yammer Networks Within Single Tenant No Longer Supported (1:Many Mode)

Yammer is committed to strengthening the alignment of Yammer to Microsoft 365. This means we will no longer support tenants having more than one non-external Yammer network. This change will ensure Yammer networks have the same organizational boundaries as their corresponding Microsoft 365 tenants.

Why is this happening now?

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