Aug 21 2019 06:05 PM
Aug 21 2019 06:12 PM
@Ryan CrockerI do this manually as well, but only about once or twice a year. Also interested in alternate solutions as it is very labour intensive.
Aug 23 2019 08:34 AM
@Ryan Crocker Assuming that the majority of those inactive groups stay inactive and then are deleted, shouldn't that number of 1000 go down substantially over time?
Aug 25 2019 04:07 PM
Sep 29 2020 10:01 AM
@Rebecca JacksonI'm doing a major clean up now, but I was wondering if anyone has any "Retention Policy" language they can share? Is it included in your Yammer Usage Policy for employees?
Sep 30 2020 01:15 PM
@Kevin CrossmanWhat constitutes 'inactive'? I noticed in some communities the last post was a year or two ago, but shows active in the last 3 months in my data pull. Does a 'Like' on a post in a group make the group active? i.e. don't need comment (post) on a thread to keep it active; just need to "Like" an older post?
Sep 30 2020 01:17 PM
What constitutes "active" in an M365 connected Yammer group has been sort of a black box and at least so far as I have seen has not been well-defined. Maybe raise the issue/concern with your MS support?
Sep 30 2020 03:11 PM
@andrewclarke it's a bit of a grey area and we try to lead community admins to the decision to remove based on whether or not the community is still adding value for them. Our process is if communities have had no unique posts (i.e. more than just shared from other places) for more than 30-days we'll contact the group admin and offer to them support to work through the purpose of their community and to help them build it up, or we just ask them if the community has either served it's purpose or failed to take off and perhaps it's time to delete. If we don't hear back, we give it another 30-days, try making contact again and then just delete.