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Change Microsoft Q&A preferences

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Your profile on Microsoft Q&A is the same on Microsoft Learn. As part of your Microsoft Learn profile, you can select what Microsoft Q&A to follow automatically on whether receiving mail notifications for certain content and when.

Prerequisites

  • You need to have a Microsoft Learn profile.
  • To receive email notifications from Q&A, you need to provide an email address for Microsoft Learn.

Limitations

None

Automatically follow Q&A content

Choose what questions you would like to automatically follow on Microsoft Q&A.

  1. Go to your profile settings page.
  2. Go to the "Q&A preferences" section.
  3. Under the "Q&A follow preferences", select or unselect the options that best work for you.
    1. Follow questions you've asked
    2. Follow questions you've answered
    3. Follow questions you've commented on
    4. Follow questions with tags you're following
  4. Select "Save".

Provide your email address

If you have not done so already, provide an email address to receive notifications from Microsoft Learn. After that, you can select your Microsoft Q&A mail preferences.

  1. Go to your profile settings page.
  2. Scroll down to the “Manage email preferences” section.
  3. Provide the email address where you would like to receive notifications as well as your country/region of residence.
  4. Select “Save”.

Receive mail notifications from Q&A

Now that you have an email address on Microsoft Q&A, you can select your options to receive Q&A email notifications. By default, once you op-in to receive mail notifications from Microsoft Learn, you opt in to get notifications from Q&A. You can change that by following Stop email notifications from Q&A.

  1. Go to your profile settings page.
  2. Scroll down to the “Q&A preferences” section.
  3. If it's disabled, enable the "Q&A email notifications" option.
  4. You will see different sections so you can update the mail preferences as needed.
  5. Select the "Save" button once you're done setting your preferences.

Stop email notifications from Q&A

  1. Go to your profile settings page.
  2. Scroll down to the “Q&A preferences” section.
  3. Disable the "Q&A email notifications" option.

Q&A email notification preferences explained

Here is an explanation of the options within the "Q&A email preferences" section.

Q&A email notifications

This option enables or disable Q&A email notifications for you. When you disable this option, Microsoft Q&A saves your other preferences, so if you enable mail notifications again, you start right at your last selections.If you disable this option, you will still receive some mails from Microsoft Q&A such as

  • You have been added or removed from a moderation group.
  • Your content has been reported for a moderator to review.
  • Your account has been suspended, or the suspension on your account has been lifted.

Mention email notifications

When you enable this option, you will get a mail whenever a user mentions you on Microsoft Q&A. A user mention is meant to bring your attention onto a question, such as letting you know they're answering your question, asking you to clarify your comment, etc.

Moderation email notifications

You only see this option if you're moderator on Microsoft Q&A. If you enable this option, you can get one mail each time content is reported to moderation on Q&A, so you can quickly act upon it.

Follow email notifications

You have the option to get notifications when someone follows you or when certain actions happen on questions you manually follow on Q&A or you set up to automatically follow Q&A content.

Followers

You receive an email notification when someone follows you. You can get a notification right away, or have a daily digest of the last 10 people that follow you in the last day or the last 20 people that follow you the last week.

Questions

The options within the "Questions" subsection are based on questions you manually or automatically follow on Q&A. You can get a notification right away, or have a daily digest of the last 10 people that follow you in the last day or the last 20 people that follow you the last week. Available options are:

  • Receive email when a question is posted on a tag you follow
  • Receive email when a question you follow is edited
  • Receive email when questions you follow do not have any answers

Answers

The options within the "Answers" subsection are based on questions you manually or automatically follow on Q&A. You can get a notification right away, or have a daily digest of the last 10 people that follow you in the last day or the last 20 people that follow you the last week. Available options are:

  • Receive email when an answer is posted on a question you follow
  • Receive email when an answer is edited on a question you follow
  • Receive email when an answer is accepted on a question you follow

Comments

The option "Receive email when a comment is posted on a question you follow" within the "Comments" subsection applies to questions you manually or automatically follow on Q&A. You can get a notification right away, or have a daily digest of the last 10 people that follow you in the last day or the last 20 people that follow you the last week.