Microsoft Government Community

The Microsoft Government Community is your place to share ideas, get answers to your questions, read expert advice, and get tips to maximize your technology experience. Learn more. Go further.

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How to participateHow to participate

If you are new to the community experience, read this short article to get started.

•Join a Microsoft newsgroup

Engage in the Microsoft education community by posting to newsgroups.

•Subscribe to e-newsletters

Automatically receive the Microsoft in Government e-newsletter and related e-newsletters.

•Find a user group

This user group support page helps you locate other people near you with similar interests.

Related communities

•Solution Sharing Network Community
•Product and technology communities
•Worldwide Microsoft community sites
•Non-Microsoft community sites

Ask the experts

•U.S. federal developers evangelism team

A technical team at Microsoft provides information about using Microsoft development tools and technologies to build solutions for the federal government.

•U.S. state and local developers evangelism team

The discussion board for IT professionals developing solutions using the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio/MSDN for state and local government agencies.

Top newsgroups

•MSDN (for developers)
•Security
•TechNet IT Pro Security Zone
•Windows networking technologies

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