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