 Yana has a question. Hi, everyone. Is there an app on Teams that's like a forum? My team is looking for a place to post questions, share ideas, generate discussion asynchronously. Now we use Team Chat for all of these, but it is not organized, hard to track and very disrupting to workflow. The answer to this question is, yes. Yes. A chat? Why aren't you having conversations in a channel, let alone as like a forum if they're taking chat, you're talking private chat, that's you can't track anything in a chat. Well, this is like a great use case for, so what we're talking about is, so Yammer, so now being rebranded as Viva Engage, but what use case for Yammer? Here's a great example of this. Mike is making faces, stop it now. As a knowledge base. So here's a great example. So I work for a company that we got acquired by this company. We had a town hall, they had like five or six locations around the world, all dialing in, all live, watching this multi-hour town hall, and people started like emailing questions, and they were taking questions to the room, and I went in and we had a Yammer environment, I kind of blew the dust off of it, people weren't using it at this company that acquired us. But I started up a town hall for this company-wide town hall, and quickly sent that out to email, like shared out and everybody, and instantly people started asking questions. And so someone in the room where the CEO was talking would raise their hands and say, hey, such and such in Germany, just ask this question, and so on behalf, and what was great about it is like six months later, we bought another company, had another town hall for those people coming in and what was new and changing, and I came in a little bit late to the town hall and to the live meeting, and instantly opened up my laptop, looked in, went into the town hall, and people were already in there asking new questions or adding on to like a knowledge base, the questions that were discussed six months ago, the same question, so people knew to go and search and then add to those conversations. So it was asynchronous, we were there in person, and then days and weeks later, we'd see, because we'd follow certain discussion threads and see new additions to the questions being asked, like that is one of the core scenarios. The best answer as well, because that's the great thing about engaging, go Mark, this one here is the best answer as part of that Q&A. So you've then got, here's the answer to the question, perfect forum scenario. I mean, if they're not using Yammer, use your team's channel conversations properly and you won't even need another app if you're doing it, because one, click on the A, put in your subject line making it easier for you to find your information number one, you can save information to go to the ellipsis on the far right, save, if you wanna come back to it later on. And if you wanna find within the channel, if you actually in the channel, if you go control F to find, it will go in this channel, find this information. People often will go to the search bar at the top and just search and it goes across the whole of teams. It's like, well, no, look down in the channel, control their find, and that will teach them how to do that. But yeah, there are other apps too. Well, but you can, I mean, you could go into your search parameters and set that up, like if you have a formal intranet SharePoint or otherwise, I mean, you can tap into that, that Yammer, the Viva Engage database, you can actually make those answers, that knowledge base, surfaced on the side or on the top of the results of those, you can prejudice the results towards that content. So it's more social driven answers and then documents and people and stuff below that. But yeah, I mean, that is a fantastic resource. I mean, other things that work as a forum, I mean, there are other third party tools. I don't know that Microsoft has anything that's specifically like a forum that are out there, but I know some other organizations have gone to like Discord and other, you know, third party solutions and cloud based applications. Like Facebook or business or something. Yeah, there's that. I've heard people use that, yeah. What Yana is asking, the best form factor with what we have today is Yammer or Engage. And it's not disruptive, like a chat message would be, like you're not going to get fully integrated. You're not gonna get the pinging of all of the instant messages that you're getting in a chat within Teams. You can pin it to your Teams experience if you want, or you can take it. So it's there when you wanna come back to those Yammer communities. It's not necessarily just focused to a particular team because no organization is ever just one team. You have interests and responsibilities across that organizational spectrum. So the nice thing about Yammer is, yes, you can have the concept of all company where the senior leadership can come in and share their messages or have information and drive engagement for that level. But there's also going to be communities of interest or practice. So perhaps it's a, what do they call those things? ERGs, enterprise resource group, where they're discussing some function inside of the organization and they're multi-departmental. They can all come in and work as a, contribute as a virtual team. In addition, it's the knowledge retention, the knowledge repository that you also get from the question and answer stuff. Conversations are threaded, searchable, that tagging, the engagement. There's even a file story associated to it. So it is a pretty good platform. And Mike was making the hand gestures like, no, thank you, no, thank you. And I can kind of relate to that. Because there was that point when teams first came out and like Yammer was out before teams and we were like, where am I supposed to have this conversation? There was a lack of product maturity to know where to position these things. And sometimes organizations still- I don't know if it's product maturity. It's usually education. It's more the education, so people don't know where to take conversation too. The messaging was weak. It was really weak. It was really weak because as MVPs, we had to use that platform and I got to tell you, I mean, there were PMs that were like, oh, we're on Yammer, but no, we're going to stick over here on Slack. We're going to do this, we're going to do that. We were kind of like spread out all over the place. And Yammer, they couldn't quite get down to the point where they were like, I had one Yammer group on my part of, yeah, they knew everything about using the files, the file space and all this other kind of stuff. But everything, they'd go to another one and they were like all over the board. It was like, there were things everywhere. And nobody knew, there was no organization to it at all. I think to clarify, this goes back to what's a common question asked in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem is the which tool when kind of conversation. So I think of it this way is that, the way that we're a Microsoft shop, the way that we function is that teams is project-based. When I know who I'm working with, I know what I'm working on, we're working together towards a deliverable. That could be short-term or long-term, but there's like a project-based activity that's done in teams. When it is a broad initiative, where we're gonna talk about this topic, this knowledge base, but we don't know that like Mike made 20 years ago, worked in that space like in an industry that it says nothing to do with his day job today. So he's not part of the discussion, but still has access to that community. So if he goes in and sees it, I see that Norm and Christian that I work with and other stuff, I see them talking about this thing. Hey, I have a lot of experience in that industry and with that, from a prior job, he can go in and add to that, even though he's not part of any active project. So it's just, they're different, they work together. I think part of what is certainly over the last year, but with the rebranding of Yammer and DeViva Engage, the integration of the teams, the integration with Outlook, makes it more fluid to move in between the different tools. But that's, I mean, I look at Yana's question, my first response is of course, Yammer is the answer to exactly that scenario. It is. But if you're looking at something- You've come a long way to say- If it's just purely, yeah, yeah. If you're looking at a purely form, like if you're really looking just for a pure forum discussion, like just purely forum, not the Yammer communities, which goes a little further and we'll absolutely do it and your data and information, everything stays within your business and the security and the searching and finding, it's great. But there's no real, at the moment, like for Microsoft, there's no out of the box, purely forum discussion type applications. Yeah, I mean, you can bring in the third parties like this, you could do Monday, SocialSquared, Answer Hub, Jira, Stack Overflow, I think are the main forum ones, but then you've got your data and information sitting and you're going into shadow IT, other content, it's not integrated in, your information sitting somewhere else. Well, a lot more work to be able to integrate it in. Yes. If you're looking for out of the box, it's Yammer. If you're looking for out of the box, it really is Yammer. It's really going to be the closest in functionality that you're going to have without a doubt.