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. If You See the Wrong Email When Registering When you go to register for the Microsoft Tech Community, the site automatically uses whatever Microsoft account you're currently signed into in your browser. This could be a personal account (like @outlook.com or @hotmail.com), your work email, or a school account. The site will often ask for your Microsoft login email and password—unless you already have an active session in your browser, or auto-login is enabled. In those cases, it may skip the prompt entirely and sign you in with whatever account is currently active. If you see that the site is registering you under an account you didn’t intend to use, it’s likely due to this automatic sign-in behavior. How to Register with the Correct Email To make sure you're signing in with the Microsoft account you want: Open an incognito or private browser window. This prevents the site from using an existing sign-in session. Navigate to https://techcommunity.microsoft.com. Click “Sign In” and log in with the Microsoft account you'd like to use. Complete the registration process as usual. Alternate Option: You can also: Sign out of all Microsoft accounts in your browser, Clear any cached login sessions if needed, Then return to the site and sign in with the correct account. 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 guidance below 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 the Community Lounge! If you are unable to post, and your question is about the Microsoft Tech Community itself, please see this article for Guidance.Meet the Microsoft Learn experts
The Microsoft Learn Community experiences are supported by technical subject matter experts, which are present throughout our community resources based on their area of expertise. Connect with this worldwide network of experts who have technical and training experience, are passionate about the community, and can offer unique knowledge to help you achieve your skilling goals. Find all the Microsoft Learn experts or join them in one of our learning rooms. Microsoft Learn expert Topic Area André Baltieri Azure Brian Gorman Azure Elkhan Yusubov Azure Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh Azure Jonah Andersson Azure Jorge Maia Azure Kazeem Adegboyega Azure Luke Murray Azure Marcos Nogueira Azure Martin Dimovski Azure Mohsen Akhavan Azure Rodrigo Kono Azure Saeid Dahl Azure Tiago Costa Azure Viknaraj Manogararajah Azure Viswanatha Swamy Azure Vlad Catrinescu Azure Dharanidharan Balasubramaniam Business Applications Doher Drizzle Pablo Business Applications Faisal Fareed Business Applications Goloknath Mishra Business Applications Haniel Croitoru Business Applications Jeevarajan Kumar Business Applications Julian Sharp Business Applications Kirti Prajapati Business Applications Nadeeja Bomiriya Business Applications Priyesh Wagh Business Applications Rishona Elijah Business Applications Arafat Tehsin Data and AI Armando Lacerda Data and AI Francis Msangi Masera Data and AI Dr. Gomathi Srinivasan Data and AI Hugo Barona Data and AI Indira Bandari Data and AI Jackson Felden Data and AI Janarthanan S Data and AI Juarez Junior Data and AI Narayan Solanki Data and AI Razwan Choudry Data and AI Stefano Demiliani Data and AI Usama Wahab Khan Data and AI Abdullah Altaf General Technologies Arash Aghajani General Technologies Ayodeji Folarin General Technologies Douglas Romão de Souza General Technologies Estelle Auberix General Technologies Gulnaz Mushtaq General Technologies Joshua Jones General Technologies Oluwaseyi Oluwawumiju General Technologies Renato Romão de Souza General Technologies Shinichi Kawara General Technologies Usman Lodhi General Technologies Amit Chandak Microsoft Fabric Ashraf Ghonaim Microsoft Fabric Chris Hyde Microsoft Fabric David Alzamendi Microsoft Fabric Mehrdad Abdollahi Microsoft Fabric Nikola Ilic Microsoft Fabric Pragati Jain Microsoft Fabric Shabnam Watson Microsoft Fabric Daniel Rey Modern Work Nanddeep Nachan Modern Work Sara Fennah Modern Work Sharon Weaver Modern Work Siddharth Vaghasia Modern Work Smita Nachan Modern Work David Okeyode Security, Compliance and Identity Dwayne Natwick Security, Compliance and Identity Eric Woodruff Security, Compliance and Identity Ibrahima Mbodji Security, Compliance and Identity Raphael Koellner Security, Compliance and IdentityAnnouncing the Microsoft Tech Community!
Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the Microsoft Tech Community, bringing multiple communities together in one central location to support discussions and best practice sharing across a variety of Microsoft products and services. The Microsoft Tech Community is an evolution of the Office 365 Network, growing to support new Azure; Windows Server, and SQL Server Communities and in future many more communities. The URL of the new community will change soon to http://techcommunity.microsoft.com and redirects will be in place for any existing URL on the http://network.office.com domain. In today's announcement, not only will you see new communities added but you will also see the following features: New Navigation Menu that reflects all of your favorite spaces, making it easier for you to navigate from space to space. Spaces can be discussions, blogs or idea exchanges and when favorited will appear here. Microsoft Ignite Community page launched: https://network.office.com/t5/Microsoft-Ignite-Conversations/bd-p/IgniteCommunity Discussions about Microsoft Ignite are happening here: https://network.office.com/t5/Microsoft-Ignite-Conversations/bd-p/IgniteCommunity Coming soon: Discussion threads for each session! Make sure you favorite the Microsoft Ignite Content space to stay up to date on the latest sessions! You can find the Microsoft Ignite Community Page via the new navigation menu under 'Events'. In our roadmap, this Events landing page will house more than just Microsoft Ignite but in the lead-up to the September event all our events efforts will be focused on Microsoft Ignite. New styling applied to Avatars. Colored rings indicate different community roles: 'Red' = a MTC (Microsoft Tech Community) Community Manager 'Blue' = a Microsoft Employee 'Green' = a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Profile Hovercards activated when hovering over a member's avatar so you can easily see which organization they belong to and what their activity is on the MTC A 'Follow' button will be applied soon and we are working on a 'People' section to help you manage your networks and feeds from the people you follow in the MTC Toggle between Blogs and Discussions in Communities: While we don't have blogs everywhere in the community yet, we are supporting the concept of blogs in the community. This will be where Microsoft Product Experts will be sharing product news, insight into how Microsoft products work and best practices they've observed. 'Favorite' Blog spaces to power your feed in your Home Page. We have temporarily taken the Community Ideas section offline while we are working on some bug fixes. While you wait you can use the Community Discussion space to share feedback on the new community. Once Community Ideas are back online we'll be making an announcement in the Community Info Center. Coming soon: 'More Resources' links in the right hand rail of Communities Continuing to refine threading and whitespace in conversations for desktop and on mobile Ability to 'Follow' users via a button on their hovercard 'People' section (more on this soon) More Blogs & More Communities! The following fixes to bugs have been applied: Notification alert is now back on your Avatar via the Profile Menu To fix this bug we had to revert back to our original larger Profile Menu. We are investigating ways to make this profile menu smaller Community Spaces tiles are now wider to support longer Space names Removed the 'Sign In' text next to the Avatar placeholder image to support a better mobile experience Known bugs and issues we are working on fixing: @mentions not working on all browsers Line breaks in Firefox and on iOS in incorrect places Styling of the hyperlinks in the notifications feed Replies, Likes and Views Icons not appearing in IE 11 and IE 9 browsers Please continue to share your feedback in the new Microsoft Tech Community. We are scheduled to shut down the Office 365 Network on Yammer on September 15 (read announcement here). If you have questions about the future of groups that exist on the Yammer network and unable to find them on the new Microsoft Tech Community, please let us know via the Community Discussion space. Thank you for your input so far, we will continue to make updates to features of the MTC and the best way to stay informed is by favouriting the Community Announcements space to power your feed.What’s New in the MTC? September 2023 – Community Ranks
Our Mission at the MTC is to provide a community Microsoft users can get the latest news, ask questions, learn new skills, and connect with peers and Microsoft experts from around the world. This month, we are rolling out a new ranking system designed to recognize users’ contributions to the community and add a little more ‘Microsoft’ to the MTC. What are the Community Ranks? We now have two ranking ladders to recognize both types of our tech community members. We have our Contributors Ranks for those who come to the MTC to interact and ask/answer questions in our forums, blogs, and events. Some of you Microsoft gamers may notice the subtle nod 😉 Contributor Ranks Onyx Contributor Titanium Contributor Diamond Contributor Platinum Contributor Gold Contributor Silver Contributor Bronze Contributor Steel Contributor Iron Contributor Brass Contributor Copper Contributor And for our members who come to the MTC to catch up on news and learn something new from the blogs, we have our Reader Ranks! These are replacing our Visitor/Member ranks, and once you start posting in the MTC, you will move into the Contributor Ranks. Reader Ranks Senior Reader Prolific Reader Regular Reader Frequent Reader Casual Reader Occasional Reader New Reader (Please note that these rankings are intended for fun and are not a measure of MTC’ers technical competence.) What goes into the Community Ranks? When you become a member of the MTC, you start climbing the ranking ladder, starting as a New Reader. As you contribute more and more to the community, you will start to climb the rank ladder. Here are some of the key ingredients that go into our ranking recipe (*These points are awarded each time an activity is completed): Viewing messages (0.25 points) Commenting on blogs, ideas, and TKB articles (1 point) Creating new discussion topics (1 point) Replying to forum discussions (2 points) Giving (2 points) and receiving Kudos (4 points) Contributing Ideas (5 points) Authoring blog articles (10 points) Publishing Knowledge Base articles (10 points) Getting your replies marked as a solution (15 points) Simply put, the more you engage and interact with the MTC, the more points you earn and the higher your community ranking will be! If you have any questions on these new rankings or you’d like to share feedback with the Tech Community Team, let us know in the comments below.
