In 2013 the Note board is deprecated. It has actually disappeared from a lot of O365 tenants and its use is discouraged in 2013.
However the new replacement is a site feed and doesn’t appear to let you leave comments on individual pages. What’s the score here – is that not possible now in 2013?
Are there any 3rd party replacements anyone has used? This is on-premise at the moment with a view to move to the cloud in the future.
Yes Yammer is far from ideal, but.. You will see that it has great potential if you look at their dev docs. It seems that Open Graph will let you set OpenGraph Type to Page en therefore the comments will be unique per page. Too bad this is not dynamic yet.
A example widget:
https://www.yammer.com/widget/configure
We also have to consider Yammer will be the standard in a few months / years. Maybe even with no extra licensing like FAST Search. We will see. For now we try to get more information from Microsoft.
K..Understand.. Sounds like a nice little app to write then 🙂
Very locked down environment with no scope for storing this stuff off site at the moment. Obviously that would be overcome at some point in the future in order to move to O365. So really 3rd party needs to be on-prem.
Just a thought – would something like Disqus work? Just done a quick search and it looks like they do single sign-on with Remote Domains, but it’s not clear whether it will allow you to integrate with your local AD or not..
https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/236206-integrating-single-sign-on
I got in touch with the commentBox guy and he seems unsure how to charge for large companies. Based on the fact he doesn’t really seem to have commercial agreements ready for corporates I think we will end up rolling our own.
I too can’t believe there isn’t a decent alternative available. Yammer is far from ideal. Yammer embed seems to be pretty fragile and in my case we’re not using Yammer anyway.
