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Contributing to the Community
Here is a quick guide on how you can start interacting and engaging on Tech Community! How to Ask a Question Click on the 'Community Hubs' dropdown menu on the navigation bar Click on the Community Hub that best fits your question or idea based on either product or special topic. Select the appropriate space within the Community to post your question or idea Click the 'Start a New Conversation' button Fill out the Subject and Message (Title and Body) sections of your conversation. Add a tag (or a few) that best fits your message topic. Then click “Post” to publish your conversation. Engaging with Posts Likeposts by clicking on the thumbs-up icon at the bottom of the post Reply to posts by clicking the reply button, either in the main feed or on the post directly Share posts by selecting the other platform icons on the right Sending a Private Message Click on the profile picture or name of the member you want to private message Click the 'Message' button on their profile. This will open up a text editor just like the one used for posting above. Follow the same instructions!Getting Started on the Tech Community
How to Sign In Click ‘Sign In’ at the top of the home page. Enter in your email address and password. You can choose one of the options below: Use your Microsoft Account (MSA) which could be an @outlook.com; @live.com, @hotmail.com or other personal email address that you have set as a Microsoft account. Use the email address associated to your Office 365 or Azure account, which could be your work email address. Selecting Communities to Join Open the Communities page by clicking on the “Community Hubs” in the navigation menu on the top of the page. Pro Tip: You can also search for specific communities or spaces using the search bar as well. Completing Your Profile and Connecting Social Media Profiles Changing an Avatar 1.Click on the default avatar at the top right of the navigation bar and select “My Settings”. 2. Select the “edit pencil” icon on your profile picture under the Personal tab. Create a Bio 1. Click your avatar at the top right of the navigation bar and select “My Settings”. 2. You will find your bio under the Personal tab. Managing Preferences, Subscriptions and Notifications Subscriptions to blogs and spaces enables you receive an email notification when a new blog or post has been published.You will automatically be subscribed to topics you participate in. See the guidancebelow on managing subscriptions. Setting Preferences You may access your preferred display and time zone in the “Preferences” tab. Follow & Notifications You can also choose what content you would like to subscribe to or follow. As well as update your email notification settings. For more information on Contributing to the Community, please visit the supporting article. -Contributing to the Community - Microsoft Tech Community Contact us Have feedback or ideas for the community experience? Let us know in theCommunity Lounge! If you are unable to post, and your question is about the Microsoft Tech Community itself, please see this article for Guidance.Managing Preferences and Notifications
Subscriptions to blogs and spaces enable you to receive an email notification when a new blog or post has been publishedto what you aresubscribed to.You will automatically be subscribed to topics you participate in. See the guidancebelow on managing subscriptions. Setting Preferences You will automatically be subscribed to topics you participate in. To disable this, click on your avatar at the top right of the navigation bar and select 'My Settings’. In the 'Follows & Notifications' Tab, you may change your notification settings to not include content automatically. Manage Email Notifications Under the same ‘Follow & Notifications’ tab. Scroll down to customize email notifications.Completing your profile & connecting social media profiles
Changing an avatar Click on the default avatar at the top right of the navigation bar and select 'My Settings'. Click the edit button over the current avatar. Upload your own image, or choose a default avatar, then click save. Create a bio Click your avatar at the top right of the navigation bar and select “My Settings”. Click on the Personal tab, and provide your name, preferred pronouns, bio, and other details about yourself. When finished, click 'Save'.Using Search in this community
We use an open source search tool that supports several standard search functions: Stemming, Boolean operators, and Wildcards . Stemming Stemming enables a search engine to compare the roots of search terms to community content. For example, if a user enters “speakers” as the query, the search engine reduces the word to its root “speak” and returns all content containing the root such as “speaking”, “speaker”, and “speaks”. Boolean operators are used in keyword searches to combine or exclude search terms. We support these basic Boolean operators: The OR operator is used by default, meaning that if there is no Boolean operator, the OR operator is used. To search for documents that contain either “bose reviews” or “speaker reviews” use the query bose reviews speaker reviews or bose reviews OR speaker review. You can use the symbol || in place of OR. The AND operator matches documents where both terms exist in the text of a single document. The symbol && can be used in place of the word AND. To search for documents containing “car speakers” and “bose” use the query car speakers AND bose. The + operator requires the term you enter after the + symbol to exist somewhere in the field of a single document.To search for documents that must contain “bose” and may contain “car” use the query +bose car. The NOT operator excludes documents that contain the term after NOT. The symbol ! can be used in place of the word NOT.To search for documents that contain “headphones” but not “bose” use the query headphones NOT bose. The NOT operator can only be used with a single term. For example, the term bose speakers will return no results. The - operator excludes documents that contain the term after the – symbol. To search for documents that contain “car speakers” but not ”bose” use the query car speakers -bose. Wildcard search Wildcard searches are used as a placeholder for any sequence of characters or words. You can use single character or multiple character wildcard searches within single terms (not within phrase queries). To perform a single character wildcard search use the ? symbol.For example, to search for text or test you can use the search te?t. To perform a multiple character wildcard search use the * symbol. For example, to search for test, tests or tester you can use the search test*.Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) Guidelines
An Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) is the same as an “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” on Reddit,or YamJam on Yammer.It provides the opportunity for the community to ask questions and have a discussion with a panel of internal and external experts on a particular topic. In order to get the best value out of this hour, here is an outline of how the flow of the AMAwillgo and some guidelines for etiquette. There will be a panel of Microsoft experts as well as MVPs on hand to answer questions about product and strategy. They will be introduced at the beginning. At the scheduled kick off time, an announcement will be made notifying group members that the AMA has started. Please respond to the initial welcome thread introducing yourself, but make sure you post your questions in a separate thread. Please read through the threads before posting. Your question may have been answered already. Be patient. The panel will try to get to every question, but some questions may go unanswered. Please be polite and follow normal Community Etiquette (see our Code of Conduct for reference). Any personal attacks, inappropriate language, or promotional content will be deleted. Please stay on topic. Discussions pertaining to other topics, products, or services belong in the appropriate group. If you would like to submit an idea for an AMA topic, please message one of the admins privately. When the AMA period is over, the group will remain open so people can review the content and continue to reply to existing threads, but do not expect a prompt reply. The moderator will create a summary of the AMA and share it to the community in the days following the event. Tips: Use the "Reply" function to reply to an individual comment. This will make the thread much easier to follow. You can hover over the “in reply to” portion of the comment to see the context. If you are receiving too many emails or notifications, you can change your settings by going to Profile > My Subscriptions.Home Feed, Communities and Spaces
HomeFeed The Home Feed shares activity based on your Communities and Spaces you join. You can filter Home Feed news by Popular, Newest, Experts and Unanswered. Communities Communities areplatformsthat share news, discussions, blogs and ideas about Microsoft Products and Solutions. You can become a member of the Communities that matter most to you. Spaces Within each community are Spaces, which are subgroups of a community. They host discussion topics and ideas that relate to their Community. Favorite Spaces You can join and favorite Spaces most relevant to you, which will personalize your feed. Select Favorite Spaces by clicking on the heart in the right side of a Space's window. To see a list of your favorite Spaces, click on the heart in the top right of your screen. You no longer need to go into the community to get to your favorite community spaces.
