Microsoft Tech Community Release Notes - 25.10 - Oct 8th, 2025
We’re excited to share the latest updates designed to improve your experience on the Microsoft Tech Community! This quarter, we’ve focused on modernising the interface, enhancing event features, and introducing new capabilities for user groups. When you visit a Community Hub on the Microsoft Tech Community you will see the biggest visual change to the community experience, we have modernized the way you navigate each community using an updated tab style that you will find on our other sites such as the Microsoft Adoption site. This is just the beginning of this work, with other changes looking at how we surface other relevant content, better personalization and less clicking 'see more'. Events We have also been listening to feedback on our events pages and we have started making changes here, including: Its now much easier to see who is attending an event Clicking this will show you which community members are attending. When an event is being held on Teams, the event organizer can now display a Link to the meeting using a branded link We have moved the Featured Guests / Speakers over to the right rail. User Group Support Group owners may now create their User Group hub on the Microsoft Tech Community by visiting the User Group Community Hub and clicking the Create User Group button. We have plans to enhance this offering over time and look forward to welcoming new groups to the platform. User Groups can submit feedback, bugs and feature request via our ideas board 🛠️ Bug Fixes & Optimizations In this release we have made numerous accessibility, UI and fixes designed to improve your experience.Microsoft Tech Community: Upgrade complete
The Microsoft Tech Community platform upgrade is complete! This significant enhancement brings you a modernized user experience, powerful tools for seamless content creation and discovery, and a more accessible and inclusive community environment. With this upgrade, we have laid the groundwork for ongoing innovation, growth, and engagement. We invite you to explore the new features and share your feedback in the Community Lounge. We will continue to monitor performance and address any issues promptly to ensure a smooth experience for all users. Thank you for your continued support and active participation in the Microsoft Tech Community. We are excited about the future enhancements this upgrade will bring and look forward to your valuable feedback.The Microsoft Tech Community is now 150,000 members Strong!
We are excited to announce that we have now surpassed 150,000 Community members! Thank you, members and visitors for making the Microsoft Tech Community such a vibrant community and helpful resource for so many people – both internal and external!Advance notification of maintenance window
I wanted to take a moment to let you all know that Microsoft Tech Community has regular maintenance windows on Wednesdays and Fridays between midnight and 4am Pacific. While we always try to ensure that our maintenance periods do not affect your ability to use the community, occasionally we must display our maintenance page. When this is necessary it may not always be possible to let you know in advance, but we will work to restore service as quickly as we can. On December 4th, between midnight and 4am PT (7am – 11am UTC), we will be making some changes to the Microsoft Tech Community which will require a period of complete downtime. This should not last longer than 2 hours and anyone visiting the site during this time will get our usual Maintenance page. On behalf of the Microsoft Tech Community, I would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and do check back on Friday for an update on this maintenance period. Allen Smith Technical Lead Microsoft Tech Community
