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In Classic Yammer, as a Yammer Admin, we could help with adding Admins/Leaders, and renaming Communities etc. When Modern Yammer was implemented, many of the Yammer Admin rights were removed, and only a Platform Admin can now manage these types of tasks. With the rebranding to Viva Engage and future enhancements, are there any plans to open back up Yammer Admin rights, so we can help our technical team out with these easier tasks, so they can focus on more technical platform Admin tasks?
shreyanarla
Microsoft
MicrosoftWith the rebranding of Yammer, we are recommending customers to use the ENGAGE ADMIN role to focus on all technical and platform admin tasks. For a detailed description of all admin roles in Viva Engage and their responsibilities, check out this article - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/engage/eac-key-admin-roles-permissions
- Hi Shreyanarla, Is the Engage Admin role only available to the Viva customers? what if your customers are still only M365 customers, as Karen shared, being able to carry out all the day to day duties as a Yammer Verified admin was so handy, is this still possible pls or do you have to been assigned several different roles for this to be effective pls?
- shreyanarla@bernie - The Engage admin role is available for existing yammer core/ Viva Engage core and Viva Customers. So if you are a M365 customer with yammer enterprise plan, or seeded Viva Engage experiences as of now, the Engage admin role is still available to you. The Engage admin role can carry out ALL duties of a Yammer verified admin and some additional admin tasks pertaining to Engage specifically as well. We have moved away from the model of assigning several different admin roles and made it easier for our customers. Summary of recommendation - Assign users ENGAGE admin role (by assigning them yammer AAD role) in order to perform all admin tasks within Viva Engage and Yammer. Note: we are actively working on rebranding Yammer AAD role to reflect Engage admin.
