Tag: Yammer

Basic Yammer Administration via Office 365

A while back posted some information up about getting Yammer via Office 365 working.

Enable Yammer integration in Office 365

A couple of Yammer gotchas

Yammer integration in Office 365

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Once you have the integration in place and an admin user for Yammer, when you login to Yammer should be able to access the Yammer Success Center as seen above.

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If for some reason you do not see the Yammer Success Center look to the bottom left of the page. Under Networks you should see Admin if you are a Yammer administrator.

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When you select Admin you should see the above menu displayed. From this menu select Success Center.

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You will notice that is quite different from the free version of Yammer. This is Yammer Enterprise, thanks to your Office 365 subscription.

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You can work down the checklist in the middle of the page or the list of items in the top left.

I’ll spend more time in upcoming posts diving a bit deeper into these but for now ensure you can get to the Yammer Success Center and have a look around at the different options that are available to you as a Yammer Administrator.

Enabling Office 365 first release

You not be aware that Delve is now rolling out to office 365 early adopters and then to every one.

First what is Delve? I think this video covers everything nicely;

Now that you know what it is you want it for your Office 365 tenant right? So how can you get on the earlier adopters, known as First Release program? Easy.

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Login into your Office 365 web portal as an administrator. In the Office 365 admin center expand the Service Settings option. Then select the Updates option.

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Now on the right ensure that the First Release option is set to on. Sooner rather than later you’ll get all the latest stuff for Office 365 including Delve which I’ll be covering in future posts so stay tuned.

Are you coming to Office365 Nation?

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From September 26 to 28 I’ll be in Redmond Washington, USA speaking at the Office 365 Nation conference. What will I will I be talking about? Here’s a list of my sessions:

T106: Coming to Grips with SharePoint Online

SharePoint is the heart and soul of Office 365 and major differentiator from the competition. It is a business that allows solutions to just about any business pain point, but how does it achieve this? Without a solid foundation in the fundamentals of SharePoint you are not going to be able to explain to customers how it solves their business needs. This course will help you understand everything in SharePoint Online, including OneDrive for Business, from the ground up, then how to demo it to clients and build solutions to help their business. If you want to stand out from the crowd then you need to know SharePoint and you need to attend this course.

T107: The Business of Yammer

Social is changing the way that business works today. It is fast becoming the de facto method of working for employees entering the workplace and it is something that is now part of Office 365 via Yammer. However, what is Yammer? What can it do? How do you make the best use of it even for small businesses. This course will take you through the basics and help you firstly understand why implanting social into a business is so important and then how to use the tools and abilities of Yammer via Office 365 to achieve this for clients. Collaborating is key for smart business in the future and this course will arm you with the knowledge to take advantage of this and be an expert in the field.

T108: Level up with PowerShell for Office 365

PowerShell is the THE tool for IT Professionals to administer and a mange Office 365. It provides access to many settings that are not available in the GUI. It provides faster deployment and management of just about all aspect of Office 365, from Exchange to Lync and SharePoint. To truly be a skilled Office 365 professional, you need to know and user PowerShell. This course will provide you exactly this skills. You’ll learn not only how to set up a PowerShell environment to connect to Office 365 but you’ll also learn some of the handy scripts you can use to make administration so much easier. If you want to manage Office 365 better and faster then this is course for you.

T109: Lync: The Red Headed Stepchild

Too often Lync is overlooked when it comes to Office 365. However it is a very powerful service that provides key benefits in Office 365. This course will firstly help you understand what Lync is and why it is so important to businesses large and small. You’ll learn how it is the easiest tool to pitch to decision makers and therefore the key service you should be using to leverage the complete Office 365 suite. If you want to convert more Office 365 stakeholders you must know Lync.

I’m luckily to be speaking at an event with many distinguished and experienced presenters who are aiming to provide IT professionals and business leader key information about how Office 365 and Microsoft cloud products are changing the way that business is conducted and opening unprecedented opportunities.

You can of course still register for the event at:

https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1573788

and to learn more about the conference visit:

http://fall2014.smbnation.com/

so if you are interested in what I believe is some fantastic content I encourage you to register today.

If you are attending the in the area during these dates I always love to catch up with people and understand how they are taking advantage of products like Office 365 and Azure, so feel free to reach out to me and organise a time to meet. It’ll be a packed few days but I’m sure we can squeeze something in.

Hope to see you there.

Yammer integration has arrived

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One of big things I see with Office 365 is the integration with social. I have been a big fan of Yammer and have been using the free offering for a while now.

Recently I started to configure the direct integration with Office 365 so I could take advantage of all the new things that are coming such as Officegraph and project Oslo.

However, the main reason I wanted Yammer integration was based n this post:

Yammer bring conversations to your OneDrive and SharePoint Online files

That highlight how Yammer can work with SharePoint today.

As you can see from the above, after configuring my Yammer network and then turning it on as my default social network I have the conversations feature available to me. Yeah-HA!

Now it’s ‘play’ time.

A couple of office 365 Yammer gotchas

I have been starting to come more up to speed with Yammer and Office 365 integration and found a few gotchas.

The first is, to integrate Yammer into Office 365 you need to have a public facing web site that matches the Yammer domain you are adding. Thus, is you want to use domain.com for your Yammer network then http://www.domain.com needs to be accessible, otherwise activation won’t complete.

I also found that the email you use to sign up can’t be admin@domain.com. For some reason Yammer doesn’t like the admin user?? So, I just created another user within that domain and used that to sign up and set up my Yammer domain.

At the moment the Office 365 and Yammer services are still pretty separate. Out of the box you have 2 non linked logins. You can do single sign on but that requires extra configuration.

However, as you can see by the above video the first of integration features is now rolling out. This allows Yammer conversations around documents. I haven’t as yet got it in my Office 365 tenant but as this blog post says:

Yammer bring conversations to your OneDrive and SharePoint Online files

It has now started rolling out, so look for it soon in your tenant. Don’t forget when configuring Yammer those couple of gotchas I mentioned previously.