In 2012, Microsoft Office General Manager Jared Spataro told the audience at the SharePoint Conference that "Microsoft is all in on Yammer and SharePoint." Spataro made it clear — Yammer would be the social collaboration tool of choice for SharePoint going forward. Office 365 would be the first major beneficiary of Yammer integration, but SharePoint on-premises would see integration in future service pack releases. Microsoft would support SharePoint 2013's out of the box social features for a period of time, but they would not be enhanced or developed further. This sent shock waves of confusion and concern throughout the SharePoint Community and has spurred heated discussion since. Two years later we've seen a significant shift in SharePoint's direction and its future. Spataro recently updated the future of SharePoint and Yammer in a Blog post called "Work like a network! Enterprise social and the future of work." For most SharePoint customers this presents a major fork in the road. One path points to Office 365 and the Microsoft cloud, the other path towards SharePoint on-premises. Questions like "Which path do we choose?" "What will the consequences be?" and "What will we do with our legacy SharePoint Social implementation?" are being asked across the board. These are interesting questions to ponder but while companies wait, Microsoft continues to enhance the Office 365 version of SharePoint and Yammer at a much faster pace than SharePoint 2013 on-premises. This Presentation will provide you with the various paths to integrating Yammer into your SharePoint 2013 environment (On-Prem and Online)and the steps to make it a reality.

1. Integrating
Yammer with
SharePoint
Navigating the Options
SOC 204
SharePoint Fest Denver – 2014
Bill Ryan – Microsoft Enterprise Architect

2. Agenda
 About ECS Team
 About Me
 A Brief History of SharePoint Social
 The SharePoint Social Dilemma
 Should You Move to Yammer?
 Should You Use OOB SharePoint Social and Yammer?
 How Do You Migrate?
 Making Yammer Work in Production
 What Does the Future Hold?
 Demo
 Questions

3. About ECS Team
Founded in 1999 by consultants with strength
in large system delivery
Over 120 consultants and growing
Headquartered in Greenwood Village, CO
Microsoft Gold Partner
Microsoft BCSP Partner
Microsoft Cloud Partner

4. About Me
Broad IT career spanning 22+ Years
Collaboration Specialist since 2006
Social Collaboration Blogger & Writer
CMSWire.com
PracticalCollaboration.blogspot.com
Microsoft Certified IT Professional
Microsoft BCSP Certifications
LOB+Search
Power BI
Certified Yammer Community Manager
Twitter: @BillRyan61
Email: bryan@ecstream.com

5. “Social collaboration turns systems of record
into systems of engagement ”
“Social transforms document centric sites into
people centric platforms”

6. A Brief History of Social in SharePoint
Discussion boards
were introduced into
SharePoint 2003
2003
Blogs, Wikis and My
Sites in SharePoint
2007 started to set up
the social collaboration
story
SharePoint 2013
enhanced the social
features with upgraded
micro-blogging, tags,
and the follow concept
(follow anything)
Microsoft integrates
Yammer into
SharePoint 2013 and
SharePoint Online
(Office 365)
2014
Microsoft acquires
Yammer for $1.2B
SharePoint 2010
added social tags,
note boards, and
micro-blogging to
extend the social
features

7. The SharePoint Social Dilemma
 Organizations are struggling with what to do about Social in
SharePoint
 Should we move to Yammer?
 Should we keep using OOB SharePoint Social?
 Use both?
 How do we migrate?
 What about SharePoint Online?
 What about SharePoint 2013 On-Prem?
 What about SharePoint 2007 and 2010?
 Can you integrate Yammer into legacy versions?

8. Should You Move to Yammer?
 It depends on what your situation is…
 If you’re heavily compliant and can’t use the cloud then
stay with the OOB social features
 There are several third party on-prem social
solutions that are still available
 Sitrion (formerly NewsGator) is still a viable
solution
 Beezy – Similar to Sitrion
 If you’re not bound by compliance then what is your
propensity for using the Cloud?
 Many companies are employing a wait and see
approach
Many are embracing it openly
If you are open to using the Cloud then
integrate Yammer into SharePoint…!!!

9. Should You Use SharePoint OOB Social and Yammer?
 Many organizations are using both…!!!
 In a recent survey – 65% of companies using Yammer
and SharePoint have kept both in place
 You don’t have to rip and replace
 You can use the On-Prem social features and use the
Yammer feed in place of the SharePoint feed
 If you don’t want to use both - you have to decide
how far you want to go
 Rip out the Activity Feed?
 Remove the SharePoint Follow feature?
I recommend leaving the social features in
SharePoint 2013 alone and adding Yammer as the
default Social Activity Feed…!!!

10. How Do You Migrate to Yammer?
 Many organizations are struggling to manage the migration
process
 Unfortunately there isn’t an easy way to do this
 If you migrate your existing On-Prem Activity Feeds to
Yammer you have to do this manually.
 You’ll have to re-create the groups in Yammer and then
move the conversations over
This is a very arduous process… Think long and hard
about doing this…!!!
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11. What Does the Future Hold?
Yammer + SharePoint Roadmap
Today
Basic Integration
Web Parts
Apps
Embed
Tomorrow
Deeper Connections
Documents
Feeds
Identity
Future
Connected Experiences
New experiences that
combine social, collab,
email, instant
messaging, voice, and
video
We Are
Here

12. Making It Work

13. Making Yammer Work in Production
 Use DirSync to add AD Users to Yammer
 http://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/dn457819.aspx
 Remember – Yammer and SharePoint use different authentication stores for now
 Users will have to maintain passwords in AD and Yammer
 The Authentication Stored will be integrated in the future
 Create a Yammer Group Per SharePoint Site
 Sometimes the Group Link will break
 You’ll need to reset the Group ID on the App or Web Part
 You may see your Group Posts go to the All Company feed when this happens
 Remember that Documents can be stored in the Yammer Feed
 You’ll have to figure out how to manage document versions and when they need to
be stored in SharePoint
 You’ll need to define the Best Practice that works for your organization

14. Use Cases
 Project Delivery
 Project Sites where teams
collaborate
 Yammer feed enables discussion
 Ask the Team questions
 Collaborate on deliverables
 Customer Facing Sites
 Allow the customer to engage in the
conversation
 Capture requirements
 Conduct Polls
 Discuss features
 Show Product Status
 Sales can engage the Customer
 Customer Support
 Sites where Product teams collaborate with
Customers
 Similar to YCN
 Have the Community answer Questions
 Capture customer feedback
 Executive Collaboration Sites
 Allow the Executives to engage in
conversation
 Discuss issues in near real-time
 Collaborate on business plans
 Report on Operational Performance
 Integrate BI into the Site

15. Demo

16. Questions

17. Yammer + SharePoint 2013 (Office 365) How To
 Setup Steps
 Select the Yammer App from the Store
 You must be a site collection admin to add it from the store
 Add the Yammer Feed to your SharePoint Site
 Modify the Web Part and change the Group ID to match the Yammer
Group
 Sign into Yammer with your Yammer username and password
 Choose the Yammer Feed you want to show on the site
 You can adjust the height of the Yammer feed to present more of the
conversation on the SharePoint Site by editing the App properties
 A height of 1049 pixels by 800 pixels works well

18. Yammer + SharePoint 2013 On-Prem How To
 Setup Steps:
 Download the Yammer App from the SharePoint Store
 You must have an App Domain connected to the SharePoint Store
You must enable access to the store at the Farm level before you can
download
 Add the App to the App Library (Must be a Farm Admin)
 Add the Yammer App to your SharePoint Site (Must be a Site Collection Admin)
 Create the Yammer Group (if it doesn’t already exist)
 Connect the App to the Yammer Group
 Modify the Web Part and change the Group ID to match the Yammer Group
 Have users log in to Yammer through the App on the Site

19. Yammer + SharePoint 2010 How To
 Setup Steps:
 Download the Web Part Zip File from Yammer
 https://about.yammer.com/success/wp-content/
uploads/sites/13/Yammer.SharePoint_2010_v3-1-4.zip
 Download the Admin Guide
 https://about.yammer.com/success/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/Yammer_SharePoint-
3.0_Admin_Guide.docx
 Add the Solution to the Farm (must be a Farm Admin)
 Deploy the Solution to SharePoint
 NOTE: You must deploy the solution to the Central Administration Web Application and the
User Web Applications
 The Web Part will now be available in the Web Part Gallery
 Add the Web Part to the Site
 Create the Yammer Group (if it doesn’t already exist)
 Connect the Web Part to the Yammer Group
 Modify the Web Part and change the Group ID to match the Yammer Group
 Have users log in to Yammer through the Web Part
 Note: SharePoint 2007 Web Part no longer supported
 You could use the Yammer Embed feature…!!!

20. Yammer + SharePoint Embed How To
 Setup Steps
 Go to the Yammer Site (browser) and click on the “embed this group on your
site”
 Copy the Java Script Code in the Window
 Edit your SharePoint site
 Go to the section you want to add your Yammer Feed
 Click on the Embed Button on the Ribbon
 Paste the Java Script into the script box
 Sign into Yammer with your Yammer username and password
 You can adjust the height of the Yammer feed to present more of the
conversation on the SharePoint Site by editing the App properties
A height of 1049 pixels by 800 pixels works well