Yammer connects people across departments and across the organization, enabling you to build communities, share knowledge and engage employees. At Microsoft Ignite, we announced an entirely redesigned Yammer experience, with new capabilities and integrations that drive employee engagement throughout Microsoft 365. Now, the new Yammer is available to organizations in public preview. Heres a quick look at whats new and how to get access to the new Yammer.
Yammer powers leadership engagement, corporate communications and knowledge sharing in Microsoft 365. Here are some of the new capabilities were introducing to make communities and conversations more impactful:
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There are even more new features and integrations coming to Yammer as we approach general availability, such as suggested communities, bookmarks, and additional admin and user controls. We will update this article as we launch new features and post on the Admin Message Center whenever we have any majorannouncements.
Microsoft 365 Global Admins canconfigureaccess to the new Yammer previewthroughtheYammer admin portal.Admins can enable the preview toggle in the suite header and choosethe default experience for their network: classic Yammer the new Yammer.Learn more about enabling the new Yammer preview for your organization.
Once enabled by an admin, users will access the new Yammer or switch back to classic using the toggle in the navigation bar.
Once enabled by a Microsoft 365 Global Admin, people in your organization will be able to view thetoggle to opt-in to thenew experience. This will be available for canonical (home) networks only. You will still see the classic Yammer experience in external networks. If your organization wants to remove all access to the new Yammer during the preview phase,youwillneed tocontactMicrosoft support.
The new Yammer is available worldwide on mobile, for iOS and Android. The new Yammer app for Teams lets you stay connected to company communications, live events and communities inside the hub for teamwork. And in Outlook on the web, you can now engage with Yammer conversations directly from your Outlook inbox. Soon, well be bringing inbox integration to Outlook desktop and mobile apps, and well bring the new Yammer experience to SharePoint, with an updated web part.
Feature requests and feedback on the product during preview should be submitted through the in-product feedback dialogboxes.Feedback can also beprovided with peersthroughthe new Yammer preview community on the Microsoft Tech Community.
Q: When will the new Yammer come out of preview and be generally available?
A: We are continuing to test and improve the new Yammer to ensure it delivers the experience our customers expect. We are currently targeting worldwide availability in July.
Q:Can we opt out of the preview at any time?
A:You can remove the preview toggle for your entire network through the new Yammer preview setting in the Yammer admin portal. Any users who have selected the new Yammer experience will remain in that experience until they choose to go back to the classic experience. For more information about the available options, see opt-in settings.
Q: Do SLAs apply to the new Yammer preview?
A: The Service Level Agreement for Microsoft Online Services does not apply to this preview.
Q:How do I open a support case?
A: Please see the help page in the for general information. Your organization may have specific guidance for opening support cases, so you may need to talk with your IT team.
Q:Is the new experience available forcustomers that have Yammer networks with data stored in the EU geo?
A:Yes!
Q:We have Yammer embedded in various places in our Intranet (i.e.Yammer tab in Microsoft Teams,Yammer web part for SharePoint, Yammer embed). How will those be impacted by the new Yammer?
A:Initially there will not be any change to these experiences. Eventually,these experiences will have the samedesign as the new Yammer.
Q:What aboutguestusersin external groups?
A:Users will see the new Yammer or the classicYammer experience depending on the state of theirhomenetwork. If your network hosts an external group, people within your network that are opted-in to the new experience in their home network will see that group in the new Yammer experience.Any guest users within the external group will seethe classicYammer experience if their network is not yet enabled for the new experience.
Q:What aboutexternal networks?
A:Users can continue to access external networks using the NetworkSwitchericonavailable on the integrated tool bar at the top of every page. On switching, users will see these external networks in the classic experience.
Q:Are all languages supported in the new Yammer?
A:All languages available in classic Yammer are available in the public preview.
Q:Can users get to the new Yammer previewwithoutadministrator changes?
A:YourMicrosoft 365 admin controls whetherusers seethetoggleto switch to the new Yammerexperience.Butusers will always be able to access web.yammer.comwhile the new Yammer is inthe public preview phase.If your organization wants to remove all access to the new Yammer during the preview phase,youwill needtocontactMicrosoft support. More details on this can be foundhere.
Q:I dont want to enable the next experience for my production Yammer network yet. How can I test out thenewtoggle?
A:You can try out theopt-intoggles in your test tenant. If you dont have a test environment, create a new trial tenantfor testing and enable thetogglethere.
-Murali Sitaram
Murali is the General Manager for Yammer and Microsoft 365 Groups
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