Yammer

Yammer – Yammer SSO and Yammer DirSync are being deprecated and removed

Good news It seems that Microsoft is finally making the long awaited move to consolidate all the identity management stuff for Yammer with Office 365. They already made on step by allowing the configuration to use Office 365 Identity, now it has been announced that the Yammer DirSync will be also (finally) removed. Ok, we […]

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Yammer – Enforce Office 365 Identity in Yammer and Yammer DirSync stops working

As you may be aware, Microsoft has introduce a new security/identity feature on Yammer to enforce all users to use their Office 365 credentials. It may be one step to get closer for the long waited unified directory synchronization tool for both Office 365 and Yammer, but this is the subject. If you enable this

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Yammer – Yammer Directory Synch stopped working and service account is unable to authenticate

Recently I had an issue with the Yammer Directory Synchronization tool. It has been setup and working for a while now but few days ago, it stopped working and the error was quite strange: unable to authenticate Off course I have validated that the account was administration on my Yammer network and it was the

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Yammer – Moving to Microsoft Datacenters

A new major milestone has been reached for Yammer Yammer services will be moved to Microsoft Datacenters on May 16, 2015 – during the move process window there will be service disruption Additionnaly if you restrict access to Office 365 services (and so including Yammer), the following IP range will be used by Yammer services after

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Office 365 / Yammer – Change to the integration of Yammer with SharePoint

Microsoft is making some changes in the integration of Yammer with SharePoint; as part of these changes, the Yammer App for SharePoint (2013 and Online) and the Yammer webpart for SharePoint 2010 will be discontinued on March 15th, 2016.   At this date, these applications will stop working completely. The Yammer Embed will be the

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Yammer – Finally Yammer is using Office 365 authentication

It has been announced some time ago, and now the roll out seems in a good progress. Yammer is finally now using your Office 365 tenant authentication scheme – be careful this will not work if you already have a federation with Yammer. This means when a user try to sign in to Yammer using

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SharePoint 2013 – SharePoint 2013 SP1 includes settings to configure Office 365 integration

As part of the SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1, Microsoft has starting to provide some way to implement a sort of hybrid mode – as we can already have with Exchange – with Office 365. If you go to the SharePoint Central Administration soon after the installation of the SP1, you will see an important

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Yammer – Add Yammer on your Office 365 top navigation

Following the announcement and then the availability for Office 365 Enterprise plan of Yammer (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/12/02/yammer-upgrade-your-basic-yammer-to-enterprise-with-office-365-e-plan/ to activate Yammer on your Office 365 subscription), you may want to add Yammer on the top navigation bar To do so, it’s really simple. Just logon to your Office 365 administration portal and go to the SharePoint administration

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Yammer – Upgrade your Basic Yammer to Enterprise with Office 365 E plan

Following the earlier announcement, Microsoft has started to upgrade existing Office 365 E plan to allow them to get Enterprise Yammer. You have to start the Yammer upgrade from your Office 365 Portal. Log on to your Office 365 administration portal with an administrator account; if your tenant is ready for the upgrade, you should

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Yammer – Synchronize your directory with Yammer

If you have SharePoint 2013 installed as part of an Enterprise Agreement, you now have access to Yammer as part of this license. However, you might have already started using a public Yammer network before it was part of that license. If so, how do you make sure all of the users in your on-premises

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