Yammer is enterprise social networking service used for private communication within organizations. Access to a Yammer network is determined by a user's Internet domain so that only individuals with approved email addresses may join their respective networks.
Yammer can be used to discuss ideas, share updates, and crowd source answers from co-workers around the globe. Yammer gives you a faster, smarter way to connect and collaborate across your company.
If your organisation moved to O365 ,you will hit requirement to deploy O365 applications like Microsoft Teams,Onedrive,Yammer ,AIP etc. All of these applications (except AIP) are user specific and they will be installed in user profile (%AppData%) instead of %programfiles%
Deploying applications to computers would be straight forward but for applications that are user specific and installation does in %appdata% ,there will be little challenges for application detection method .
Application detection is one of the main criteria to identify if the application is installed correctly or not ,also it helps to reinstall the app if the app is removed on user machine (this happens with application deployment evaluation cycle ).
As i mentioned in my previous blog deploying Microsoft Onedrive using Configmgr , we will be similar method with detection rule for Yammer also.
Before we start of with this ,Download Yammer client (MSI) file from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/yammer-for-windows-and-mac-50920c05-cbfc-4f11-8503-e20fb2e623a5 .
Once the MSI file downloaded ,extract the file using 7zip or WinRAR to get the actual installer used to deploy to users. You will see something like below.
Copy the file to your SCCM source files ,start creating Application as you do for other EXE applications.
For Deployment Type ,choose script Installer
Installation Program:"yammerdesktop.exe" /s
Uninstallation Program:"%LocalAppData%\yammerdesktop\Update.exe" --uninstall -s
Detection Rule:
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\yammerdesktop
Value:DisplayVersion
change the version value (1.3.1) name as per the application you are installing.
User Experience:
Requirements: Windows 7,windows 10 (based on where you need this to be installed).
Deploy the application to user collection .So when the user receive policy (user policy evaluation cycle) ,application will get install and shortcut icon will be created on users desktop.
Following is the registry location that application get installed.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\yammerdesktop
Hope it helps!