Yammer On by Default in Office 365

Yammer will be turned on by default for all Office 365 tenants who are entitled to the service by the end of Apr. 2016. The automatic rollout will simplify deployment of Yammer, which is used as a communication component for some Office 365 services. However, it could also make archiving and eDiscovery more difficult and interfere with the collaboration technology plans of some organizations.

Yammer On by Apr. 2016

Yammer is a Microsoft-hosted social networking service for organizations that offers collaboration spaces with groups, conversations, and data sharing that are similar to public social networking services, such as Facebook and Twitter. Yammer has proven useful for processes that require group communication, such as resolving support issues, gathering feedback on projects and documents, spreading effective sales tactics and other kinds of best practices, and conducting out-of-band discussion during Web conferences.

Rights to Yammer are included in most Office 365 plans for businesses, but until now administrators had to manually activate the service in Office 365, a somewhat time-consuming task. Now Yammer will be enabled automatically for all new and existing Office 365 customers whose subscriptions include it. The automatic rollout began with its Feb. 2016 announcement, and it should be complete by Apr. 2016.