Coming up,
I'll show you the latest updates to Yammer.
Including the role that Yammer can play in driving viral adoption of content in your SharePoint environment.
New integrated video experiences.
How working with files and Yammer is now easier than ever
with the native OneDrive and SharePoint integrations.
Using Connectors and Flow to pulling content from third-party services.
And how the new Office 365 connected groups experience
can unlock great new functionality across the suite.
Finally, I'll show you the simple admin steps to make these capabilities light up for your network.
Yammer offers SharePoint an additional modality for collaboration
through the ability to add conversations to your sites.
It's a means of facilitating fast and broad reaching communications across your company
without the need to necessarily know who the end recipients will be.
For example, here's one of the new SharePoint communication sites.
These sites allow you to share beautifully curated content
across your entire organization.
What we can do now,
is add a Yammer web part to that to make it much more engaging.
To do this, we first need to establish a Yammer group.
I have one that Contoso adventure travel recently created
to run a campaign to crowdsource ideas from the travel agents,
was spread wide around the world.
You can see in this group there's lots of photos, links to websites,
and documents that people have shared as part of the campaign.
Now to embed this Yammer conversation in the SharePoint site,
I first need to copy the group's URL.
In SharePoint I edit the page.
I scroll down to where I want to insert the feed
and I select the Yammer web part from the gallery.
paste in the URL I just copied,
pick the size I'd like and get published.
And now we have a Yammer conversation embedded within the SharePoint site.
So now let's have a look at this conversation on the page.
As we scroll down,
we can see here Isaiah has shared an announcement that the CEO made about who won the campaign.
By clicking on this link.
It takes me directly to the thread on Yammer that he's referring to.
And we can see here the video of the CEOs chat hall.
If we scroll down, we can see all the related conversations to that video.
We've always been able to include Vimeo and YouTube links in Yammer
and those videos will play inside the stream.
But, what we're adding today is the ability to have authenticated video
from services such as Microsoft stream or Office 365 video.
Let me show you how that works.
Inside Microsoft stream I have this video that I want to share into the Yammer thread.
So I click share and I take the URL
and then when I'm back in Yammer I can paste that in
Yammer will pick that up that it's a video.
when I click post
it will render that directly within the Yammer feed.
And we can now watch the video in the context of Yammer.
See it's views, likes and conversations around it.
So beyond integrating Yammer with SharePoint sites or videos hosted in Office 365
You can also interact with content from external sources using connectors.
Now while this is new to Yammer,
you may be familiar with the connector services in Outlook and Microsoft teams.
In this example, we want to stay abreast of all the latest news relating to the eco tourism industry.
So you can set up a connector to Bing news to capture that additional information from the market
To add a connector to a group
we click "Add Connector"/
We scroll through the list until we find a connector we want to add.
In this case Bing news and click "Add".
And then you can give it a name
and select the topic.
I can pick the time I'd like the post to be delivered.
And click Save.
Now in this case you've already created one earlier.
And you can see that Bing news has posted to the group with the latest updates around eco tourism.
Now I can reply to this and add people from my organization who I think this would be relevant to.
For more advanced scenarios,
you can use Microsoft Flow to apply business logic and perform multiple steps.
So as you can see within flow I've filtered by the Yammer templates.
Now Flow allows you to connect Yammer to SharePoint,
Dynamics, Outlook and many other third-party services.
For example, if I wanted to share the latest company news out to Twitter, Facebook and Yammer,
I could use a Flow template like this one.
You can see here when an email arrives, I send it for approval.
If it gets approved it will automatically post to Twitter, Facebook and Yammer
and send out a notification.
If it doesn't get approved, it will send out a notification to say that it wasn't.
Flow allows you to share to and from external services.
But we've also added deep integration between Yammer
and documents stored in SharePoint and OneDrive for business.
You can now attach your files from your OneDrive and SharePoint locations directly in Yammer.
In this example, we can see Adele asking me for a copy of a report.
Now I know this file is shared in SharePoint
and with the new file picker in Yammer
I can select File stored both in SharePoint, but also on Onedrive for business.
So you can see here I have access to all my OneDrive for business files.
But I can also see all the SharePoint sites that I'm a member of across the suite.
If I click on "Finance Team"
I see the file that she requested.
I hit "select".
Type a quick message, hit "Post"
and we'll paste the link from the file in the SharePoint library.
Conversely, every Yammer group is now connected to the Office 365 group service.
So when you create a new group in Yammer,
let's give it a name
eco-tourism in California.
I can add some group members.
Now when I create a group, two things are happening.
A new object is getting created in Azure Active Directory.
Where the name of the group, membership and other details are being created.
But in the background we're also provisioning all the related Office 365 resources
like a SharePoint document library, a SharePoint site,
a shared OneNote for the team and a planner to keep track of the tasks.
Because all your Yammer groups now exists in your Azure Active Directory,
by virtue of being an Office 365 group
you can now share files to Yammer groups within your Office 365 apps and services.
As you can see here I have a presentation and PowerPoint
and I can share it to a Yammer group directly from within the app.
To do that I click share
and because this Yammer group now exists inside Active Directory,
when I search for the name
the group I just created will appear in the list.
I can select that and hit share.
This will do two things.
Post dimensions to the Yammer group with a link to the document,
but it's also going to provision the right access to that document to all those group members.
So as you can see,
managing and sharing content from right across Office 365
is now much easier with Yammer and SharePoint.
And if you're an Office 365 administrator
your Yammer groups can be managed just as you do today with Office 365 groups.
what's new today
is that you can now create Yammer groups with dynamic membership
and you do this within the Azure AD portal.
First, you can see when I click on Groups
it's going to list all the existing Yammer groups along with the Office 365 groups.
I can come down and then I click on the Finance Team
and then I click "Configure".
And from here I can set up the rules of how the membership of this script will work.
In this instance, I want to make sure
that everyone in the finance department is automatically added to the group.
Now as people join or leave the team,
the group membership is automatically updated.
Now the value here is that we're making sure that the right people
are always part of the right groups with the right permissions.
This is also reflected in the Yammer UI.
You can see here that I can't add or remove members to this group
because the group membership is now controlled
by the dynamic group rules that we just set up in Azure AD.
The last thing I want to show you
is how to make sure all these capabilities we've gone through today, light up for your tenant.
The key to this is to enforce Office 365 identity in Yammer.
As an admin
ensuring your security settings that you're enforcing Office 365 identity.
Once you've committed to that and hit save
your Office 365 connected Yammer groups will be enabled.
So whether it's in Yammer or SharePoint,
they're allowing you to work where you feel most comfortable.
These experiences are connected
so you can get to your conversations and content where ever you are.
Everything I've shown you today
is either already available or will begin rolling out.
To learn more about these great new features
and to stay current with the latest updates or get first access to new features,
follow the link below to join the Yammer service update group.
Thanks for watching.
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