Überblick über Sicherheit und Compliance in Yammer - Yammer (2023)

FAQs

What license is needed for Yammer? ›

You need to be an Office 365 global administrator or user management administrator to do the following operations. Only users with a Yammer license will see a Yammer tile in the Office 365 app launcher.

Mark an answer as Best Answer

In the conversation options below the answer, select Mark Best Answer. The answer will be marked as Best Answer, and it will be pinned under the question.

Guidelines: The information is private and for employees only—even if something is posted on Yammer it is for internal use only. Yammer uses your real name and photograph—to connect a name with a face. Always post into a group so that everyone using Yammer get the messages they're supposed to.

A: All data in transit into and out of the production environment is always encrypted. Communication with Yammer is over HTTPS (TLS 1.2 supported) regardless of user endpoint (web, desktop app, mobile app, API). In addition to being encrypted in transit, Yammer data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 bit key encryption.

Yammer has a free version and does not offer a free trial. Yammer paid version starts at US$8.00/month.

Yammer Pricing is done on an annual basis. There are three plans available starting from $5.00 user/month, $8.25 user/month to $12.50 user/month. Each Yammer pricing plan comes with a free one month trial, after which users will be charged subscription fees.

There is no limitation in Yammer to create the poll. 2. You can create 100 answers for each poll.

According to Swoop Analytics' analysis of 120,000 posts from several large organizations that use an ESN like Yammer, a post with more than 500 characters is ideal for the “Likes Sweet Spot” as well as the “Reply Sweet Spot”. Leaders need to be authentic and learn to engage others and be engaging by themselves.

How do you make Yammer successful? ›

Invite members to the community that you know would be great contributors and gain value from the community. Talk about the Yammer community at team meetings and cross post about the community in other Yammer community, where appropriate. Don't go at it alone – “It takes a village” to build a successful community.

Yammer helps you connect and engage across your organization, so you can discuss ideas, share updates, and network with others.

Group Policy is a hierarchical infrastructure that allows a network administrator in charge of Microsoft's Active Directory to implement specific configurations for users and computers. Group Policy is primarily a security tool, and can be used to apply security settings to users and computers.

Security policies set the standards and define procedures for network and data protection. The Microsoft Professional Services organization adheres to the Microsoft Security Policy and ensures compliance to industry standards by maintaining a framework of more than 150 modern security controls.

Teams enforces team-wide and organization-wide two-factor authentication, single sign-on through Active Directory, and encryption of data in transit and at rest. Files are stored in SharePoint and are backed by SharePoint encryption. Notes are stored in OneNote and are backed by OneNote encryption.

Microsoft has confirmed that it's finally killing off Yammer, the enterprise social network it procured more than a decade ago for $1.2 billion. Yammer was initially created out of San Francisco back in 2008, with co-founder David Sacks formally launching the startup at a TechCrunch startup event.

The tech giant announced at Inspire 2022 that Viva Engage would be integrated into the Teams and Microsoft 365 platforms to replace Yammer. Viva Engage allows employees to create and join communities within their organisation, discover and follow topics, and gain access to content from across Microsoft 365.

Frequently asked questions. Is this a total rebrand of Yammer? Yes, we started this journey with the rebranding of the Communities app in Teams in 2022. Over the next year, the remaining Yammer experiences will be rebranded to reflect Viva Engage branding and better align with Microsoft Viva.

Yammer has a free version and does not offer a free trial. Yammer paid version starts at US$8.00/month.

What are the limits of Microsoft Yammer? ›

The maximum size for a single file attachment is 5 gigabytes (GB) for Yammer Enterprise networks and 100 megabytes (MB) for Yammer Basic networks. The maximum dimensions are 7,680 pixels wide and 4,320 pixels high, and the maximum image size is 10 megabytes (MB).

Disadvantages of Yammer

Yammer is not an integrated work environment for all office and communication tasks. It is easy to lose track of things through many different channels. Searching for specific topics can lead to confusing results.

You can post questions in a Yammer group, and the question poster or any group admin can mark the best answer to a question. The best answer shows up right under the question, making it easy to get right to the information they need.

The challenge

Create your own business quiz with company-relevant categories and questions. Yammer users can access the app directly from your Yammer Enterprise Network.

In our last blog post we reported that the average engagement score on Yammer platforms was around the 20% mark.

Conversations are kept in Yammer indefinitely. You cannot change how long Yammer keeps the posts. You also cannot change a conversation once its posted.

A strong sense of community drives engagement on Yammer. Encourage employees to create and join groups that align with their interests and expertise, as well as company-wide initiatives. Provide guidelines on group creation, moderation, and etiquette to ensure a positive experience.

Select SHARE. Select Post in Group or Send Private Message. Select a group. Type a message, and then select Share.

All community members can include a hashtag in their messages. This enables their messages to show up more easily in Yammer searches. While typing a message, add the hashtag symbol # before the keyword that you want to tag.

What is the objective of Yammer? ›

Yammer connects leaders, communicators, and employees to build communities, share knowledge, and engage everyone. Use the Home feed to stay on top of what matters, tap into the knowledge of others, and build on existing work.

Yammer's Topics feature lets you organize, curate and even reference information across the many in-platform communities that may exist in your organization. Topics are essentially metadata for a thread, rather than individual messages.

Yammer Verified Admin

Assign verified and network admin roles. Manage content policies, including monitor keywords, data retention, security settings, and reading data in private groups. For instructions on typical tasks for Verified Admins, see Yammer admin help.

Yammer participation through readership has grown to, on average, 85% of users, yet active participation has dropped to, on average, 31% of users.

Both Yammer and Teams are collaborative, but Teams is the clear choice when focusing on important collaboration. As projects can be separated into specific groups, members can communicate with members of their team specifically, in meetings or in one-to-ones via calls, chat and posts.

Project Ideas

Whilst email is easily searchable, information stored in Yammer can be retrieved far more easily and the threaded nature of the conversations are much more easy to follow, just think about your Facebook feed, how hard would it be to keep up with your friends and families if everything was sent via email!

Why is it called Yammer? So they launched Yammer in 2008. According to the CPO, Jim Patterson, they wanted the name to reiterate this concept of persistent communication. And yammer, by some definitions, explicitly means to talk and talk… and talk for a long time.

There are 2 types of security policies: technical security and administrative security policies.

To open Local Security Policy, on the Start screen, type secpol. msc, and then press ENTER. Under Security Settings of the console tree, do one of the following: Click Account Policies to edit the Password Policy or Account Lockout Policy.

What is an example of an office security policy? ›

Some examples of a typical workplace security policy might include mandatory password changing, unique WiFI codes, or going badgeless to secure workplace access as people return to work.

Is Windows Defender security warning real? No, it is not real. It is a fake warning designed to scare you into performing steps that could get your computer infected, or make you share sensitive personal information that could later be used in financial fraud or identity theft.

To recap, security refers to the systems and controls that a company implements to protect its assets, and compliance refers to meeting the standards that a third-party has set forth as best practices or legal requirements.

Microsoft would never block your computer. If this is a pop-up scam – close the window or restart the browser. If this doesn't help, look for suspicious extensions and apps in your browser and computer. You should also get a reliable antivirus such as TotalAV to scan your computer for malware.

What Can My Employer See On Microsoft Teams – Comprehensive Guide. If you are on the business plan of your organization, then anything you do on Microsoft Teams or any other MS Office apps will be visible to your employer. From the moment you log in, your employer can keep track of your calls, meetings, chats, etc.

Yammer is a service plan included in enterprise products like Office 365 E3 and E5 and in Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard, and Premium.

Because Yammer is a closed platform — only employees within a corporate domain have access — it's available exclusively to business users who are part of a Microsoft 365 Enterprise plan.

If your organisation has an Office 365 or Microsoft 365 licence, Yammer Enterprise is included.

The E3 suite encompasses Office 365 ProPlus Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher, co-authoring, Outlook Exchange Email, Skype for Business, Instant Messaging, voicemail, video dial-in conferencing, SharePoint collaboration and Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, enterprise social networking, Encryption, Data Loss ...

What is E3 and E5 licensing? ›

E3 provides the full suite of enterprise functionality with Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and additional security functionality. E5 is the most advanced package, with all the features of E3, alongside advanced email security functionality, analytics, and phone systems.

Microsoft 365 E5 is an enterprise solution with best-in-class productivity apps and advanced security, compliance, voice, and analytical capabilities.

"What is the difference between m365 E3 and E5?" Microsoft 365 E5 includes all the features in the E3 plan, with additional ones such as Advanced Threat Protection for security against business email compromise and PSTN conferencing to facilitate Skype for Business meetings.

Microsoft has revealed several new features for its Viva Engage platform designed for leaders, communicators and knowledge sharing in the hybrid workplace. The tech giant announced at Inspire 2022 that Viva Engage would be integrated into the Teams and Microsoft 365 platforms to replace Yammer.

Yes, we started this journey with the rebranding of the Communities app in Teams in 2022. Over the next year, the remaining Yammer experiences will be rebranded to reflect Viva Engage branding and better align with Microsoft Viva. What does this mean for Yammer?

Disadvantages of Yammer

Yammer is not an integrated work environment for all office and communication tasks. It is easy to lose track of things through many different channels. Searching for specific topics can lead to confusing results.

Yammer has a free version and does not offer a free trial. Yammer paid version starts at US$8.00/month.

Yammer connects leaders, communicators, and employees to build communities, share knowledge, and engage everyone. Use the Home feed to stay on top of what matters, tap into the knowledge of others, and build on existing work.

Yes, you will need an Office 365 Business account to have a Yammer account.

If the external user belongs to an Office 365 Tenant, a Yammer Enterprise license is needed for the user. If the external user does not belong to an Office 365 Tenant, the user must have a valid work or school email account to participate as an external Yammer user.