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Anonymous

Dec 07, 2016

New Feature: All newly created Yammer groups will connect to Office 365 Groups

I saw below message in message center. New Feature: All newly created Yammer groups will connect to Office 365 Groups MC87864 Published On : December 6, 2016 Expires On : April 30, 2017 Be...

Microsoft

Dec 07, 2016

See the last question of this FAQ: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Yammer-groups-are-now-Office-365-Groups-d8c239dc-a48b-47ab-b85e-6b4b8191a869?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1
Users can still create regular Yammer groups.
Out of curiosity why did you disable Group creation?

Sameer Borwankar
Copper Contributor
Jan 02, 2017
cfiessingerWe haven't disabled groups creation but have controls around it. End users can't create Groups, only admins can.
But end users can create Yammer groups. What happens to these Yammer groups created by end users? Do they get full capabilities of O365 groups?
- Adrienne Trudeau
  Microsoft
  Jan 04, 2017
  If end users do not have permissions to create Office 365 groups, they will still be able to create groups in Yammer, but they will be "classic" Yammer groups like we have today. The groups will not be connected to Office 365.
  - Sameer Borwankar
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 23, 2017
    This helps our use case! Thanks.
Anonymous
Dec 08, 2016
cfiessinger Thanks for the article.

We have disabled O365 group to cleanup some of mess which was created by users.

We are again going to reinstatate o365 group creation with improved process and policies such as classification/usage URL/Storage quota etc on demand basis.