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Allen
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Unexpected Error when navigating the Microsoft Tech Community
All, We are aware of higher than normal instances of unexpected errors this morning. This does not appear to impacting all users but users who are impacted may see a black bar asking you to report it to our team and quote a reference number. Users who experience this error may also encounter missing page elements i.e. no boards or blogs listed on corresponding pages. Update: This issue is not affecting all users, if you get an unexpected error then try again either from a different browser or device, even opening the page using the InPrivate mode can result in not getting this error. We are investigating this as a matter of urgency and will post updates here. Resolved:10:00am GMT - The issue that caused this spike has now been resolved. Please remember unexpected errors can happen for a variety of reasons and so if you continue to receive them it does not mean this issue has resurfaced. Please try to reload the page that caused the error again and if no resolution then please contact our team. Thanks and once again please accept our apologies for any disruption this event caused.Status Update - Email Delivery Delay - 1st Feb 2023 ** FIXED **
Team, We are undertaking some maintenance that may result in emails from the community being delayed, we would like to apologise in advance for any inconvienance and we will update this post once this work is complete. Allen Smith Technical Lead Microsoft Tech Community "He/Him"Issues with Images on the Microsoft Tech Community [partially resolved]
We are aware that some users are encountering issues with images on the Microsoft Tech Community. Example of issues we are aware of: Slowness uploading images Image upload failing with a timeout error Uploaded images not showing in posts Unexpected error after attempting to upload or edit an image. The image gallery images are not showing up correctly. Sorry for any inconvience caused, our engineering team have fixed the most common issues but the last one is taking a little longer. This last one has one work around though. Rather than trying to choose a picture from your picture gallery simply upload the image again and you will be able to use the new uploaded image.Talking about our Homepage - Call for feedback
Hi all, We are currently looking at making some changes to our homepage, connecting new members to our Getting Started guides (which will also get an overhaul) and encouraging un-registered users to sign in. As I start to think about the homepage for logged-in users I would love to hear from current members: Do you currently use our homepage? If not, why not? Thinking about when you visit the Microsoft Tech Community and your logged in, what do you expect to see on the homepage? Looking at our current homepage, is there anything you particularly like or don't like? Do you use your dashboard as your homepage? I want to take your feedback into account both for this, more immediate update, and for a wider redesign of the site we hope to launch early in 2023. Please keep in mind everyone's feedback is valid and I want to hear the bad and the good. AllenCommunity Maintenance
Hi all, As some of you may have noticed there are changes being made throughout the Microsoft 365 Community to help better categorize and make all content more discoverable. This work will be ongoing throughout today and may lead to some undesirable experiences, please accept our apologies. We are aware that the process we use to change labels was incorrectly setup when this work began and so I would like to apologize to anyone who has received multiple edit e-mails from us. This has now been corrected and you should not receive any more emails while this work continues. ** Update at 3:45pm Pacific - 04/05/2022 ** Unfortunately the problem with the missing messages at the top of the Microsoft 365 community is taking longer to fix than we expected. This maintence has been but on hold until this bug is fixed, we will share more information as it becomes available. Until further notice please click into the board your interested in, in this community, to see the messages that are within it. Allen Technical Lead Microsoft Tech CommunityMicrosoft Tech Community Live Events
In the later part of last year, we started our Microsoft Tech Community Live events. These events were designed to be readiness events and opportunities for you to learn about the latest and greatest, as well as get some facetime from our product team members. We have held 5 so far, they are: Tech Community Live : Windows Edition Tech Community Live : Microsoft Teams Edition Tech Community Live : Microsoft Viva Edition Tech Community Live : Microsoft Endpoint Manager Edition Tech Community Live : Surface Edition So far the feedback we have had from these events has been really positive and those that attended found them generally informative. For those who have not attended a Tech Community Live is usually a series of 3/4 webinar style events where our product teams talk over some of the new features of their products and help answer any questions you may have about how to adopt or impliment them. We already have some great plans for the next few, and we will share details on these shortly. We would also love to hear from you, do you have a topic or an product you would like to learn more about? If so go to the Community Ideas board and submit a new idea, making sure to select Tech Community Topic or AMA Topic for the label. This will then allow us to gague interest on a specific topic and hopefully help make these events more compelling for you.
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Mentorship Community
The new home for the Humans of IT Mentorship Program
Table Topics Moderation Group
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Viva MVPs Private User Group
This private user group is exclusively for Viva MVPs to discuss confidential information and collaborate with the Viva product team
