Yammer integration options in SharePoint

Maarten Eekels

Maarten Eekels

CTO at Portiva / P-TSP at MicrosoftSpeaker, bloggerTop 25 European SharePoint Influencers 2014

Contact

meekels@portiva.nlwww.eekels.net

Agenda• SharePoint and Yammer – a brief history• Yammer overview• Yammer integration options for

SharePoint• Troubleshooting tips• Future roadmap

Late June 2012

19 March 2013

GOJared Spataro, Senior Director, Microsoft Office Division

But…• What about SharePoint on-premises?• Two user profiles?• I love the “follow content” option in

SharePoint!• Where do we store content anyway?

?

April 2014 – Getting there

YammerGuidance

Yammer & SharePointOn-PremIntegration

Yammer forDynamicsCRM

Yammer Default inOffice 365 Yammer

App for SharePoint

Windows 8& WindowsPhone Apps

SSO &DirSyncGuidance

StartingDocumentConversations(“Post”)

SimplifiedLogin

SharePointServicePack1

2013 2014

Yammer Enterprise inOffice 365

DEMOYammer Overview

Yammer & SharePoint

Integration options• Yammer App• Yammer Embed• REST API

Yammer App

DEMOYammer App

Yammer Embed• Customizable JavaScript widgets• Display My Feed, a Group Feed, a Topic

Feed, a User Feed or an OG object feed.• Users will need to log in to view the feed

(since April 2014 SSO is possible)• The feed is restricted to users of the

network specified

Yammer Embed<div id="embedded-feed" style="height:800px;width:400px;"></div><script src="https://assets.yammer.com/assets/platform_embed.js"></script><script> yam.connect.embedFeed({

container: "#embedded-feed",network: "sharepointsushi.onmicrosoft.com",feedType: "group",feedId: "3326421“,config: { use_sso: true,

header: true, footer: true }

});</script>

https://www.yammer.com/widget/configurehttps://developer.yammer.com/connect

DEMOYammer Embed

Troubelshooting tips• Blank dialog after login

Add following sites to Trusted Sites zone in IE:https://*.yammer.comhttps://*.assets-yammer.com

• Auto login doesn’t work in Office 365Add a hidden HTML IFRAME element (using HTML Form Web Part or Embed Code snippet) on the same page as the Yammer App with src attribute pointing to /_layouts/15/Yammer.aspx page.HTML Source:<iframe src="/_layouts/15/Yammer.aspx" style="display: none"></iframe>

Future roadmap

Inline social experiences

Group experience

Office Graph

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