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Yammer with Office 365 Groups - Calendar.
I was happy to see the Yammer/Office 365 Groups integration demonstrated in the Office 365 Groups Overview session at MSIgnite. Creating a Yammer group creates the Office 365 Group in Azure AD, a Sha...
Yes as mentioned in the blog post and at the Ignite session: "Subsequent phases will automatically migrate existing groups in Yammer, address remaining Office 365 tenants and deliver integration with Outlook Calendar "
In that blog post it says: "To avoid fragmenting team conversations, Office 365 Groups will provide either conversations in Yammer or conversations in Outlook. Office 365 Groups created in Yammer will have conversations in Yammer. Office 365 Groups created elsewhere in the suite will have conversations in Outlook."
As I'm still waiting for the integration to hit my First Release enabled tenant I want to create a Group for a team to share files and OneNote, but also want conversations in Yammer. So what is the best practice in the interim? Do I:
- Create a separate O365 Group and Yammer group with the same name?
- Create an O365 Group and don't create a Yammer group so they will integrate later? (although by the paragraph above it seems to indicate that conversations will be in Outlook - does that mean they will *stay* in Outlook?)
Thanks
As I'm still waiting for the integration to hit my First Release enabled tenant I want to create a Group for a team to share files and OneNote, but also want conversations in Yammer. So what is the best practice in the interim? Do I:
- Create a separate O365 Group and Yammer group with the same name?
- Create an O365 Group and don't create a Yammer group so they will integrate later? (although by the paragraph above it seems to indicate that conversations will be in Outlook - does that mean they will *stay* in Outlook?)
Thanks
Angus Florance
Microsoft
MicrosoftInitially it's only going to be new Yammer groups that get this integration, but we will automatically connect all existing Yammer groups over time. So for you specific example, you have two options in you want to use Yammer as the conversation for the group.
1 - Wait until we turn on the Wave one integrations (this will happen before the end of the year) and then when you create the group in Yammer, it will spin up all the O365 Group resources for you, OR,
2- Start the Yammer group now, and then wait for us to connect it up for you (first half of next year). . We can't wire them up against existing team sites.
1 - Wait until we turn on the Wave one integrations (this will happen before the end of the year) and then when you create the group in Yammer, it will spin up all the O365 Group resources for you, OR,
2- Start the Yammer group now, and then wait for us to connect it up for you (first half of next year). . We can't wire them up against existing team sites.
- Ok. So just to clarify if I set up an O365 Group now - it won't be connected to a Yammer group when this functionality rolls out?
Or will there be a way to do it via PowerShell/web UI/Service Request down the track?
In the scenario I'm thinking of the sharing of files and OneNote are of higher priority than conversations, but it would be preferred to switch conversations to Yammer if possible.
I'm guessing that's not an uncommon scenario where customers have set up O365 Groups and will want to switch to Yammer for conversations.