Forum Discussion
Moving Content from Yammer IT Pro Network
Hi Dean,
Like you I really hope that the content will be moved across, but I can imagine that this might be a challenge from a technical perspective. If it can't be moved across I certainly think it would be preferable to keep it in read-only mode.
- We had a similar challenge when moving across from the older incarnations of the Yammer customer networks, and the challenge wasn't necessarily technical but related to the social contract under which the information had been contributed. This network, being publicly searchable, is a different dynamic so to just migrate the content over would break the contract under which the info was originally provided.
I'd strongly suggest finding your favorite / most useful content and paraphrasing it in new posts / continuing the discussions here. That's the approach that we took when moving from earlier versions of the network and will help a lot with the social contract part of this puzzle.
Definitely see the argument for read-only access to the old network but really what we want to be doing is taking all that goodness over here (through re-creation, it seems) over time.- MichaelHolste
Microsoft
Agreed Mike. And to add to this, a lot of the context of conversations (participants, point in time, product features) would be lost. On top of moving 500k conversations, we wouldn't be able to member profiles to this new place, as the sign in requirements are different. There isn't a perfect symmetry of groups either. As the products continue to change, so do the conversations. That's why we are starting fresh.
So disallow replies and new posts, and let those of us who currently have profiles continue to login to the Yammer ITProNetwork for archive research.
Cai, I've heard nothing at all in the weeks leading up to this announcement about maintaining the O365 network in read-only mode, and in fact I doubt this is even possible. The shutdown of the Yammer Customer Network was only a short time ago, and I'm sure that if such a solution had been available, it would have been under broad discussion.
I think the safest working assumptions are that the O365 Network will be gone-gone in September, and that none of your favorite content will be relocated that you don't move yourself.
- If this is true, that's a real shame. I agree with all the comments, I use and refer others to much of the outstanding community created content.
- Yes - I was afraid that was the case.
- I've struggled with this. SOOO much valuable information in the network, but like Julian said, there is lots that I wouldnt feel "comfortable" just plopping into an open / searchable platform.
I didnt even use my OrgID, but my personal Microsoft account to register as I can't represent my organization to a "public facing" forum.
That makes the most massive hurdle to overcome (besides this horribly inefficient UI/UX) the fact that everything is starting over from scratch. The network probably won't be that useful for in-depth knowledge for quite a long time....- The thought of losing all of that content is hideous! There is so much out there and the amount of time that people have spent sharing their developed content is hugely beneficial to new companies beginning the journey.
If that is all lost, it will show a complete disrespect to everyone that took time to create and share that content as best practices.
It is the files and notes in particular that will be missed
