Well, that took longer than expected.

Although Microsoft began bundling Yammer with Office 365 shortly after acquiring the enterprise social networking (ESN) startup in mid-2012, users so far have had to log in separately to both suites, an inconvenience that will soon end. Microsoft will start to roll out single sign on for Office 365 and Yammer next month, and expects to finish by March of next year, the company said Thursday.

Microsoft has been progressively linking Yammer in various ways with Office 365 components like SharePoint and with other product families like Dynamics, but this extremely obvious point of integration has been a long time coming.

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