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- Will you support interactive email notifications on desktop Outlook for Mac and Windows? Currently, you need to access Outlook on the web to get that level of full interactivity, especially when posting videos or link to videos.
- Fully interactive alerts from Yammer are working in Outlook for Mac and Windows today. The only thing I'm seeing different in Outlook web is the Communities / Viva Engage app.
- Spencer_Perry
Microsoft
Yes, we run interactive emails in Outlook desktop, mobile, Mac, and on the Web. There are some slight differences between the platforms, owing to the different underlying frameworks that support the desktop/mobile/Mac version of Outlook versus Outlook on the Web. Our goal over time is to have fewer of these inconsistencies so that everyone gets the same experience regardless of which version of Outlook they use.
- Spencer_PerryHi Juan, Yes, the feature parity between different Outlook platforms is an area we're explicitly working on right now. Our vision is for all Outlook users in Windows and Mac to have the same experience between desktop, Outlook on the Web, and mobile. In terms of videos and links, we're especially looking at how we can embed the content in emails viewed in Outlook desktop to match the app and OWA today. I don't have timelines for that work yet, but we know it's an issue and we want to fix it as users include more rich media in their posts. There are also updates coming to various versions of Outlook that will help solve some of these problems as well, so please stay tuned as we address from both the Viva Engage and Outlook sides. Thank you for the question! We know Outlook is so important for our customers' networks, and we want to make the experience as amazing as possible.
- Jason_MayansWe're working with the Outlook team to continue to improve the experience for Windows & Mac -- stay tuned!
- The Microsoft Docs Documentation on this seems a bit sparse in places as I went through it the other day, and there were gaps in various stages/products?
- espnguyenThanks for the feedback, David. Are there specific articles that you feel need more information or depth? Please let us know and we'll see what we can do to improve them.
- Are there any QRG's? for End Users? Are there any Videos on Microsoft Learn?
- Adoption materials can be found here (including a Getting Started Guide) https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/engage/ and we have a few videos there too! https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/engage/#videos
- I think that the Microsoft Learn should have a lot more content for End Users on all the Viva Products, especially as you have got Viva Learning, a bit disappointing and not very Engaging!
At a recent event I saw that the option to bulk upload members from within the community itself will be coming soon 🙂 Do you have a date for that?
- If you have access to the Azure Portal (portal.azure.com), you can bulk export and import members to group, including Yammer groups, now.
- jamestyerHi Samantha. We are currently in private preview for bulk upload. I've tagged you in a post in our customer community to you can sign up.
- espnguyenHi Samantha, we're planning to make the new bulk upload to communities available by the end of this quarter.
- What will be the impact for existing Edge/Chrome Yammer Progressive Web App (if any) ? ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/progressive-web-apps-chromium/
- Ravin Sachdeva
This is a great question, Nathalie. The PWA app for Yammer would be rebranded as well. We are currently validating if that would be done automatically or if there is a need for users to make the change. As soon as we have an answer to that one we'll post an update. We'll try our best to have this change done automatically so there's no effort needed from the users.
- Any plans to add the ability to filter the home feed by most recent conversations?
Adrienne TrudeauThere are two options for the feed on the home page. The default experience is the relevance based algorithmic feed which is sorted by relevance of the posts. There's also an option to view the "all" feed on the homepage which is a feed of all conversations happening in your network, sorted by the most recent post (initial message or reply). Can you tell me more about your desire to see most recent conversations? Is this similar to what the ALL feed provides or do you want to see a smaller set of conversations related to your subscriptions (community memberships, follows, etc.) sorted chronologically?- I can see the All conversations view of the feed but it's not chronological so you can't see most recent conversations of the communities you are a member of. is there another way to see that without having to go into each community individually?
- Is the overall algorithm being worked on at all? I still find it to not work as well as some competitors.
- Adrienne TrudeauHi - we continuously iterate on our home feed algorithm to improve the relevance of the feed. Here's a blog post that describes at a high level how it works: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/yammer-blog/yammer-explained-how-the-feed-works/ba-p/2757489 We'd love to hear from you about your experiences, though. How is it falling short for you?
- After some months of usage it still just seems a little random, I think having the power to filter by recent or to see trending/popular conversations would be a big help.
- Will there be any future functionality embedded so that Community Admins/Leaders can extract a list of community members, instead of having a Platform Admin execute this task?
- danholmeYou can use any AD group management tool, since communities are groups. Azure Group Management portal, for example, can export members. So can PowerShell. Many tools are available for "mere mortals" to see group members.
- Any for "mere non-technical" mortals? Out of the box technology works better for those who are not technical.
- Will you improve the repost functionality? In order to see the photos and videos.
- danholmeYES. We want to solve this. Stay tuned. It won't be in the next *few* months but we will get there.
- 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?
- shreyanarlaWith 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?
