NOTE: If your organization is not using the Yammer API, you may disregard the below message.
Yammer is integrating with and adopting Viva Topics to make community-sourced knowledge easily accessible across an organization and support a consistent experience in Microsoft 365.
This new update makes Yammer conversations a whole lot better by providing several new features you are able to experience in Yammer starting now! See below for what’s available to users. This will rollout on desktop, web mobile, and Mac.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70809.
Previously, embedded community feeds did not surface the community name, description, or ability to join. In an effort to give users more context and ability to engage deeper with the feeds, we are adding the community name, description, and ability to join/leave at the top of the community feeds by default. When clicked, the community name will take users to the community page in Yammer.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84955
We have updated the Yammer Conversations web part for SharePoint to add new configuration options including:
This new “Post on behalf of another user” feature will allow Yammer users to assign other users in their network as their delegates. All users in the Yammer network will be able to add other users in the same network as their delegate.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66500.
With this change, when inserting a link of a Yammer conversation in a public community from their canonical (home) network, users with the Yammer Communities app for Microsoft Teams installed will now get a rich preview directly in Teams.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82243
The Microsoft Teams admin will soon be able to customize the following properties for the Yammer Communities app in Teams within their tenant:
Over the next few weeks, Yammer users will see SharePoint News in their Yammer Home Feed along with Yammer content. This new post type will show on both web and mobile.
The order of priority for content in the Yammer Home Feed is:
This message post is a reminder of the ongoing progress of retiring TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols in Microsoft 365.
Having received customer feedback about not knowing how many members actually receive Yammer community announcements, we’re excited that this new Essential Announcements feature will allow Yammer community admins to achieve a guaranteed distribution of important community announcements via email for all community members. This will rollout to Yammer web and desktop.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70741.
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