We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Managed Applications in Azure Marketplace. Azure Managed Applications provides an ecosystem that. New in Yammerbuilding a more connected and engaged organization. Yammer empowers every person in your company with an open space to connect, share and work out loud. With 7. 0 percent annual growth in active groups, theres greater momentum in Yammer than ever before. Yammer and Share. Point have always been natural complements, because together they deliver powerful connections and discoveries of people, content and information. Today, during the Share. Point Virtual Summit, we unveiled several new capabilities that make it easier to connect and engage through Yammer, whoever and wherever you are in the organization. Spark conversations on your intranet by bringing Yammer and Share. Point together. Productive conversations can arise from anywhere you do your work. Last year, we enabled a more seamless document sharing capability across the Office 3. Share. Point, while collaborating in Yammer. You can now enrich your new Share. Point communication sites with a conversational layer by using the existing Yammer embed capability, triggering contextually relevant discussions and increasing the virality of your content. Over the coming year, we will enhance the integration between Yammer and Share. Point by further improving the way Share. Point content appears in Yammer and making conversations from Yammer render more naturally within Share. Point on the web, desktop and mobile. Share, view and discuss videos from Office 3. Video and Microsoft Stream. Companies are increasingly looking to use video as an effective way to reach employees and drive engagement across the organization. Now, you can share and play videos from Office 3. Video and Microsoft Stream directly within your Yammer conversations. Yammer already offers high quality, in line viewing of video uploads or external websites like You. Tube and Vimeo. These new integrations with Office 3. Video and Microsoft Stream make it seamless to embed internal videos in Yammer conversations and include security controls and infrastructure to keep valuable information secure. To share a video from Office 3. Video or Microsoft Stream, copy the URL of the video and paste it into your Yammer conversation either as a reply or post. Yammer recognizes that the URL is a video, adds a playable thumbnail and allows people in the group to watch the video in the context of Yammer. They will also see the number of views and likes. Those who dont have access to a specific video will be shown a message that the video is private or the user is not authorized. Whether you are running a monthly Q A session, sharing an executive message, broadcasting product updates or releasing a campaign, your employees can now share, watch and discuss videos right within Yammer and see tallies of views and likes. Discuss relevant information from third party apps and services using Connectors in Yammer. You can now use Office 3. Connectors to bring relevant content and updates from over 9. Yammer conversations. Connectors allow you to configure automatic posts to groups from a wide variety of tools, such as news and social media sources like Bing News and Twitter, developer tools including Git. Hub and Pager. Duty, and project management tools like Trello and Asana. Anyone in the group can add or delete a connector in Yammer, as long as the group is connected to the Office 3. Groups service. Simply click Add or Remove Apps under Group Actions on the right of your groups feed and then follow the instructions on how to add the connector. To learn more about Connectors in Yammer, please visit the support article. Connectors bring relevant third party information right to your group. For example, you can set up a connector to deliver a weekly digest of social media posts or articles regarding a specific hashtag or search term. For groups managing the customer experience, you can set up a connector with your organizations customer support system to escalate important tickets and drive group problem solving. Keep group membership up to date by enabling dynamic groups in Yammer. Starting today, you can more easily manage groups in Yammer using dynamic group membership. Dynamic groups are Office 3. Azure Active Directory. Whether youre looking to group people based on role, geography, department or any other attribute, once created, these groups update automatically as people join, leave or move within your organization. So you can rest assured that you are including the right people from across the company to engage and collaborate in your Yammer conversations. To create a group with dynamic membership in Yammer, an Office 3. Azure portal, select the Yammer group to configure and set up the membership rules for that group. Group members are added and removed based on membership rules set in the Azure portal. This new capability works well for organizations where people often change teams, roles and geographies. For quickly growing companies seeking to bring new hires into group conversations relevant to them, dynamic membership helps to ensure these employees have all the right permissions to find applicable content and make meaningful connections from day one. For companies looking for a reliable and secure way to engage with the frontline, a group with dynamic membership can be created based on a specific role or location. Group managers can then announce major updates, sending a notification to employees mobile apps. Conversely, workers on the frontline can share input and escalate issues knowing theyre connected to the right people back in the central office. Connect wherever you do your best work with new Yammer apps for i. Pad, Windows and Mac. Staying connected requires tools that have the versatility to fit your work style. Whether you are highly mobile, moving from meeting to meeting, on the ground talking to customers or jumping from app to app on your desktop, your cross company conversations should be accessible, highly engaging and easy to navigate. We are pleased to share new Yammer apps for i. Pad, Windows and Mac. The Yammer i. Pad app has been re launched with a richer navigation and group experience, as well as universal search capabilities. With great feedback and usage of our current Desktop Notifier, we will also be delivering a more full featured desktop app for Windows and Mac within the next couple months. The new app will enable automatic sign in and will have a similar look and feel as the current browser experience. Organizations will also be able to broadly deploy the desktop app through central management. Learn more and join us for our Ask Microsoft Anything AMAThe features and capabilities announced today represent the next steps in Yammers journey of empowering people to connect and engage across their organization. With several exciting announcements, we invite you to watch our latest Microsoft Mechanics video Also, join us next Tuesday, May 2. PDT for a special Ask Microsoft Anything AMA in the Microsoft Tech Community. Our product and engineering teams will be available to answer questions you have about new features in Yammer. Add the event to your calendar and join us in the Yammer AMA group next week. To keep up with Yammer releases and connect with our product teams on an ongoing basis, please join the Yammer Service Updates External Group. The Yammer team. Frequently asked questions. Q. How does embedding a Yammer conversation into my Share. Point site work today A. To embed Yammer on a Share. Point page today, edit the page, insert the Yammer feed web part from the gallery and enter the URL of a Yammer group or topic. Adding a Yammer conversation into a Share. Point page embeds the exact conversations that you see in Yammer. Your group feed in Yammer and the view of the conversation in Share. Point will update concurrently, in real time. Q. What is the difference between Connectors and Flow A. While Connectors for Office 3. Groups and the first party app Microsoft Flow both involve integration with various third party apps and services, there are several differences. Connectors post updates to your Yammer feed from a specified system. Microsoft Flow can post updates as well, and add the ability to automate multi step workflows involving actions taken across multiple systems. To learn more, visit the Microsoft Flow website. Q. What are the eligibility requirements for dynamic group membership A. Eligibility requires that your group in Yammer be connected to the Office 3. Microsoft Office help and training. Whats new in Office More ways to transform slides with Power. Point Designer, 3. D models to increase the visual and creative impact of all of your documents, new ink effects, and much more await you in Office 3.