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Dean_Gross
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Jul 16, 2016

Moving Content from Yammer IT Pro Network

There is a tremendous amount of valuable content is the existing O365/ITPro Yammer Network. I frequently refer people to posts that I know exist and other users have found this approach very helfpful...
Cai Kjaer's avatar
Cai Kjaer
Iron Contributor

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.

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Mike Grafham
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Aug 05, 2016
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.
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    MichaelHolste
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    Aug 10, 2016

    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. 

    • JayFMSTechComm's avatar
      JayFMSTechComm
      Iron Contributor
      Sep 07, 2016

      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.

      • MichaelHolste's avatar
        MichaelHolste
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        Sep 08, 2016

        Hey Steven, unfortunately there is no way to make Yammer read only. 

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