08-23-2018 09:59 AM
Hi,
What's the future for stand-alone Yammer groups? Are they here to stay or should we be moving to Office 365 connected groups? Will they be deprecated in the near future?
08-31-2018 09:06 AM
11-06-2018 03:35 PM
There are already many organizations that have disabled O365 group creation for users as they want to provision this for users instead (e.g. Microsoft Teams). Haven't seen any documentation from Microsoft advising against this. They are actually highlighting this option, as you can see here. This already disables the connected group feature in Yammer. AFAIK, stand-alone Yammer groups are not going to change as long as Yammer freemium isn't removed as an option. You're just getting less options (i.e. no live streaming) and you can always convert them later. Most if not all of the innovation will be restricted to connected groups. This is why I do recommend having a process for users to request a connected Yammer group even if you have a provisioning solution in place.