Jun 08 2017 06:12 AM
Microsoft has updated Yammer so that new groups use the Office 365 Groups service to manage the identity and membership of the groups. There are far too many “groups” in that last sentence, which kind of illustrates how a surplus of groups might be building up within Office 365.
https://www.petri.com/the-rebirth-of-yammer-groups
Jun 08 2017 06:55 AM
Jun 08 2017 07:09 AM
In our organization I've seen no reason to roll out Yammer anymore with Groups and someday Teams available to us. Just seems like senseless duplication of functionality across products. I figure it'll just confuse my users more than it will be of use.
Jun 08 2017 07:12 AM
Remember that Yammer has far higher scalability than the 1,000-member limit for either Office 365 Groups or Teams. Because of this, Yammer is well suited to the kind of "town hall" scenario that many discuss in the enterprise social networking world. For example, Yammer did a pretty good job of dealing with 80,000+ members in the previous iteration of the Office 365 Technical Network...
Jun 08 2017 08:34 AM
We have <100 users.
Jun 08 2017 08:56 AM
Jun 08 2017 10:13 AM