Kelly LaForest

Microsoft Office 365 blog by a OneNote MVP.

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Button to Post Document Link to Yammer from SharePoint Online

Have you ever clicked on the “Post” button in SharePoint Online? While hunting for a “there’s gotta be a faster way” solution to co-worker Sean Wallbridge’s “Copy Shortcut – Gonzo in SharePoint Online!” blog post, I spotted a “new” (to me) button that we suspect has been around for quite some time in SharePoint Online. I was pleased after …

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How to Move a Conversation to a Different Yammer Group

At itgroove, we use Yammer to run our business. Checking Yammer for new conversations and comments is part of my “Good Morning” routine, after checking my Outlook calendar and inbox, and before reviewing my SharePoint Consultant (To Do List) Dashboard. It helps me stay in-the-loop about Company News (i.e. outage for patching at X time) or …

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Create Alert for All Users in a SharePoint Group

Fact: You can’t set up an alert for a SharePoint Group in SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013. And for many that’s a great thing, as they dread the thought of more emails flooding their inboxes. But there are times, especially during the early days of rolling out an implementation or a new feature where notifications …

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Drag and Drop Files into Yammer

On December 1st, 2014, a colleague of mine posted the following in our itgroove Corporate Yammer Network: “Kelly, When I can use Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V to drop images right in this box, then Yammer might win over Outlook.” I get it. Having to save an image to the desktop then upload it to a …

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Make the Enter Key Not Submit Message in Yammer

UPDATE #2 – (10/2015): The Publisher Settings checkbox has disappeared making this blog post no longer accurate. Read more here: Where Did the Publisher Settings Checkbox go in Yammer?   UPDATE #1 (6/2015): The screenshots in this post are no longer current as the Yammer interface has changed. You can now find the Settings button by …

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