Yammer

The latest version of the PowerShell module for Azure Active Directory contains the cmdlets to recover a deleted Office 365 Group (and a plan or a team). We have been waiting for this feature for two and a half years, but maybe the waiting makes the feature all the sweeter…

After an extensive trial, Microsoft is preparing to release the Office 365 Adoption Content Pack to all enterprise tenants. Gaining insight into how people use the Office 365 applications will help tenants maximize their investment in the cloud. However, the content pack is not a silver bullet and won’t make your organization any more effective than it is today.

Some interesting announcements during the last week informed us about Yammer getting better at compliance and a new Office 365 connector. I’m not so hot on the bots, though. In other news, MyAnalytics has an unexplained love for Internet Explorer and the topic of password trimming and the Office 365 maximum password length caused some confusion – at least for one administrator! And some news about an interesting Exchange 20th anniversary video and a VDI collaboration project between VMware and Microsoft for Skype for Business rounds out the week.

Yammer and Office 365 take two very different approaches to collaboration, but both exist inside Office 365. Although slow in coming, Microsoft has finally given details about how Yammer and Office 365 Groups will connect to each other. AAD is the glue and SharePoint, notebooks, plans, and calendars are the common functionality available to both types of groups.

Still relying on email as your primary mode of communication? Find out how Office 365 and Yammer can increase your productivity.

Email is out of date and if your company uses Office 365, then they might have Yammer, which is a far superior communication tool.

Office 365 offers a few tools to improve working in a team. While Yammer Groups and Office 365 Groups are similar, they suit different types of teams.

Microsoft is getting more aggressive with Yammer and is turning it on for all Office 365 customers who meet the basic requirements.

Here’s a broad overview of how to get the most out of Office 365 and the Yammer enterprise social network for better productivity in the workplace.

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella discusses their cloud strategy, the fall enterprise application push, and the new remote desktop apps for iOS and Android.