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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.Until Next Time!
Hello all, After over two years of working with the Microsoft Tech Community team, I am sad to say that my time managing the community has come to an end. We've been through a lot of exciting community changes, product updates and fun events both online and in-person. What's next for me? I am packing up my things and moving to SE Asia to pursue a little sunshine and relaxation. For the first few months I will be travel through Japan, South Korea, and China before landing in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam where I plan to soak up to sights, sounds, and smells for the foreseeable future. To celebrate the end of this chapter, here's a countdown of a few fun moments we've been through together. 109 - The number of Weekly Roundup's I've published on the Office 365 Network and the Microsoft Tech Community. I've loved putting together the roundup each week as it gave me the excuse to read through all the great conversations here. It also allowed to to pick a Member of the Week each week that exemplified the spirit of the community. We truly couldn't have created this community without the amazing members here. Don't worry, the Weekly Roundup is is good hands with EricStarker taking the lead. 64 - The number of AMAs & YamJams that I've hosted. By far one of my most favorite things in the community are the 'Ask Microsoft Anything' events (and not just because I always pick-up coffee & donuts for the team). AMAs, or if you love Yammer- YamJams, are truly one of the best ways we've been able to let our customers peek behind the scenes and and get to know the members of the teams creating the products. My favorite one? A close call, but perhaps the 'How to YamJam, YamJam'; so meta! 18 - Microsoft Tech Summits around the word. I attended 5 Tech Summits (Toronto, Mexico City, Chicago, Washington DC, and Copenhagen) and WOW! What an experience. While traveling is great (obviously I've got the bug), the best part is being able to evangelize the community in person. It's incredibly fulfilling when after a 30 second elevator pitch, someone sees the value of the community, signs up on the spot, and continues to interact in the community weeks later. 6 - The number of members on our rockstar community team. I couldn't be more lucky to work with such an amazing group of people. A big shout-out and thank you to MichaelHolste who hired me and has taught me so much during my time here. I may be leaving, but there's no stopping this team. With jeffmedford, AnnaChu, and DaniMartMS leading the Office 365 and C+E strategy, and Maddie_Egan, EricStarker and Mackenzie Lyng in the Microsoft Tech Community and BAPI communities on the ground, this place has the people-power in full force. 2 - Microsoft Ignite's under my belt. From the photobooth, to the Community Spotlight talks, MVP dinners, community meet-ups, surviving on no sleep, and losing my voice, Microsoft Ignite is always an experience. Watch out for Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, I know the team has some fun ideas planned for community. 1 - One Microsoft Tech Community. From my first day on the job, it was clear that our customers were looking for something more from community. It's always been our goal to provide something that was inviting, friendly, and most of all, useful. To achieve this we needed to bring Community from across the Microsoft ecosystem together into one place. I'm incredibly proud of the work we've done to realize that goal and I'm excited by thriving place that the Microsoft Tech Community has become. I've truly enjoyed getting to know all of you. Thank you for the experience! If you would like to keep in touch or follow along with my adventures you can find me on Twitter at @lanaobrien. Until next time, -Lana O'BrienMoving Content from Yammer IT Pro Network
There is a tremendous amount of valuable content is the existing O365/ITPro Yammer Network. I frequently refer people to posts that I know exist and other users have found this approach very helfpful. How will I be able to do this in the future? What is going to happen to all of those good answers provided by community members and MS staff. AFAIK, many of the answers from MS staff do not exist in any other locationThank to MTC team
Just found I'm almost 8 years here with 20K posts behind. Practically that means nothing, only another reason to say thank MTC team for the developing of so great resource. Compare to some other Microsoft resources. LinkedIn is more tips & tricks plus news. Answers mainly support, why this or that doesn't work as we expect. At least that's my impression. MTC is mainly practical questions from real life. I learned a lot for these years with MTC communicating with other people. A lot was done by the team, not all perfect now. Even more shall be done in future - more growing the resource more demand on improvement. Good luck on this way and thank you!How to Determine what to read
After going on vacation for a week, i'm taking a look at this network and have no idea how to find out what is new or where to start reading. When I look at the old O365 network this task is trivial to accomplish. How are we supposed to keep track of posts in this network? it seems impossible.Microsoft Tech Community Achievements / Badges
Hi folks, I could not find in the documentation or any of the current technical discussions the exhaustive list of "Tech community badges" available to date. Please help me complete the list by adding some information in the comments. Thank you very much Additional contributors: Allen SergeiBaklan List of Microsoft Tech Community Achievements / Badges Icon Item Category Add Bio Profile Set Location Profile Quick Start (Awarded to any user who reaches a set level of participation in the first 30 days of their membership of the community) Profile First Image Uploaded Images 05 Images Uploaded Images 10 Images Uploaded Images Awarded to users after they have been a member of the Tech Community for 1 year Anniversaries Awarded to users after they have been a member of the Tech Community for 2 years Anniversaries Awarded to users after they have been a member of the Tech Community for 3 years Anniversaries Awarded to users after they have been a member of the Tech Community for 4 years Anniversaries Awarded to users after they have been a member of the Tech Community for 5 years Anniversaries Awarded to members who have been a member of the community for 6 years Anniversaries First Like Given Likes 05 Likes Given Likes 10 Likes Given Likes First Like Received Likes 03 Likes Received Likes 05 Likes Received First Discussion Started Discussion 5 new topics started Discussion First Reply Replies 3 replies to posts Replies 5 replies to posts Replies Visited for 5 consecutive days Frequency Awarded to anyone who registered for the Microsoft Tech Summit in 2018, who had a community profile at the time. Events Awarded to anyone who was going to speak at the Microsoft Tech Summit in 2018, who had a community profile at the time. Speaker Awarded to anyone who attended Microsoft Envision in 2017 and who also had a community profile at that time. Community Awarded when a user has been nominated as member of the week (can only be awarded once) Community Awarded by a community administrator to recognize an influential community member Community OI - Feedback Implemented Community Member of the Week Community Awarded to any user who was a speaker at Microsoft Ignite in 2016 Speaker Awarded to any user who attended Microsoft Ignite in 2016 Events Awarded to any user who was a speaker at Microsoft Envision in 2017 Events Founder. This badge is for founding members of the Microsoft Tech Community This is a special badge awarded to members of the community who joined the community within its first month of existence Community Badge for attending Microsoft Ignite 2017 Events A badge for Microsoft Ignite 2017 Speakers Speaker Recognized as a Community Event Leader Events Awarded to Community Event Speakers Speaker Awarded for playing the 100k user space invader game. This was an Easter egg game we hid within the community UI when we reached 100k members, at the time of writing we have over 1 million members! Community Awarded to the first 100,000 members of the Microsoft Tech Community Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for at least 1 reporting issue being fixed across language and having a worldwide impact. Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for users who have won at least 2 competitions or sweeps stakes in the Office International space and posted 100 times. Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for winning 1 competition or sweepstake in the Office International Community Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for winning 2 competitions or sweepstakes in the Office International space. Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for winning 3 or more competitions or sweepstakes in the Office International space Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded to any member who has won 4 or more competitions or sweepstakes in the Office International space Community DISCONTINUED : Office Internations: Awarded to any member who has won 6 or more competitions or sweepstakes in the Office International space Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded to any member who has won 5 or more competitions or sweepstakes in the office International space Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for giving feedback in the Competitions space and has been implemented, improving the quality of office international Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for at least 1 reported issue which has resulted in a Global Term Change Request and had global impact Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded to members who have won at least 6 competitions and posted 300 times in the community CommunityCommunity DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded to any member who has won 4 competitions or sweepstakes and posted 200 posts in the community Community Awarded to any Microsoft Ignite 2018 Attendee Events Awarded to any Microsoft Ignite 2018 Speaker Speaker DISCONTINUED : Awarded to the Diversity & Tech Most Valuable Mentors. Community DISCONTINUED : This badge is awarded to user accepted into the Microsoft Tech Community Insider group for 2019 Community DISCONTINUED : This badge is awarded to everyone who has been recognized as a Microsoft Tech Community Insider during 2020. Community Thanks for the contributions: SergeiBaklan Allen
Post flooding error
I created a normal post, click Post and get an error: Correct the highlighted errors and try again. Post flooding detected (community received posts of a unique message more than 1 times within 3,600 seconds) So apparently I can't post for an hour. I've given up and gone somewhere else, this feature needs fixing, I didn't do anything odd just wrote a post and hit the post button.Terms of Service Change formatting issue
After logging in to the Tech Community site, I was redirected to the Terms of Service Change page. The main body of the page displayed one character per line. Although I was able to complete the process, it made it very difficult to read. I got the same issue in IE 11 and Chrome.List of Microsoft Forums?
So as per last week's announcement, we've had a name change ceremony from Office 365 Network (Preview) to Microsoft Tech Community! Few weeks ago I did a quick blog post to maintain a list of currently supported Microsoft forums as below. Have I missed any others and will these forums appear in these space as consolidation to make things easier? Microsoft Community – http://answers.microsoft.com/ – help with technical support. Power Users Community – https://powerusers.microsoft.com/ – Gateway to Power BI, Flow, Power Apps, Stream communities forums. Power BI Community – https://community.powerbi.com/ PowerApps Community – https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Community/ct-p/PowerApps1 Microsoft Flow Community – https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community/ct-p/FlowCommunity Microsoft Stream Community – https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Community/ct-p/StreamCommunityBoards Azure Forums – https://azure.microsoft.com/support/forums/ Microsoft Social – https://social.microsoft.com/Forums Microsoft Technet – https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums – for IT Professionals technical support. MSDN – https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums – for developers technical support Yammer Office 365 Network (Closing soon) – https://www.yammer.com/itpronetwork Thanks ChiragAuthentication timeout is still far too low.
The authentication timeout for this network has been increased, but it's still woefully low. The constant reauth is a serious disincentive to use. Neither the former Yammer based Office 365 network, nor the Power BI network (also on Lithium) times out so frequently. The PBI network timeout is days, and is significantly more usable.
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