Get ready to unleash your creativity and innovation in the Community Spring Festival 2025 Challenge and have the opportunity to WIN Power Platform Community Conference 2025 tickets!
Join us for a month of fun, learning, and collaboration as we celebrate the vibrant spirit of our communities. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, there's something for everyone.
🌼The Community Spring Festival will include 6 different challenges!
🌼Kick off on March 31st and run through April 25th, 2025.
🌼WIN TICKETS to the Power Platform Community Conference 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Challenges & Rules for the Community Spring Festival 2025 are:
Participation
- The Festival will run from 00:00 UTC on March 31st to 23:59 UTC on April 25th, 2025 on both the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Communities.
- During this period, all members of the Community, except for Microsoft employees or formal members of the Community management team, can compete in any of the events in either or both Community sites.
- All members of the Community with active community profiles as of the completion of the Festival can participate.
- Members must be in good standing to participate or win. Please remember to always follow the Community Code of Conduct and content guidelines.
- If you wish not to participate in the festival for any reason, please notify the Community Management team prior to the final day of the Festival at d365ppc@microsoft.com.
Forum and Blog Festival Events
The following Festival events are happening within the discussion forums and blogs on the Community sites.
Challenge #1: Most Verified Solutions – for Super Users
- Open to current Super Users (2025 Season 1) only.
- Members must submit responses within the discussion forums during the Festival. Those responses can then be marked as Verified Answers (i.e., an answer you provided was marked as Verified) by the author of the original thread.
- Answers posted by the author of the original thread will not be counted.
- The member with the most Verified Answers will be deemed the winner of the event. There will be two winners – one from the Power Platform community and one from the Dynamics 365 community.
Challenge #2: Most Verified Solutions – for Non-Super Users
- Open to members who are not currently active Super Users (2025 Season 1).
- Members must submit responses within the discussion forums during the Festival. Those responses can then be marked as Verified Answers (i.e., an answer you provided was marked as Verified) by the author of the original thread.
- Answers posted by the author of the original thread will not be counted.
- The member with the most Verified Answers will be deemed the winner of the event. There will be two winners – one from the Power Platform community and one from the Dynamics 365 community.
Challenge #3: Most Blog Followers
- Open to members that own at least one blog on the community in good standing as of the completion of the Festival event.
- The blog can either be hosted or syndicated.
- Galleries are not included in this event.
- During the Festival, members of the community in good standing who are not owners or authors of the blog may follow a blog to subscribe to its content.
- The blog owner with the most verified follows of their blog during the Festival will be deemed the winner of the event. There will be two winners – one from the Power Platform community and one from the Dynamics 365 community.
- If a blog author owns multiple blogs, all are eligible; however, the follows for each blog are evaluated separately for the event.
User Group Festival Events
The following Festival events are happening within the User Groups on the Communities.
User Group Festival events occur across both communities, as many user groups extend across both sites. If you have a User Group that extends across both sites that you want to ensure is evaluated as a single group, please make sure your User Group Coordinator is aware.
Challenge #4: Most User Group Members Gained – Across both Communities
- Open to User Group Leaders of an active User Group on the Community in good standing.
- User Group Leaders that lead multiple User Groups will be evaluated separately for the Festival event. The exception is that user groups that exist across both Community sites but meet as a single group will be evaluated as if they were the same group.
- During the Festival, members of the community may join a User Group as a new member (if they have not been members of the User Group previously).
- Joining the User Group as a member must be completed on the Community site.
- Only new memberships for community members in good standing that occurred within the Festival period will be counted.
- The User Group with the most members gained during the Festival will be deemed the winner of the event. There will be one winner for this category, regardless of community.
Challenge #5: Most User Group Event Registrations – Across both Communities
- Open to User Group Leaders of an active User Group on the Community in good standing.
- User Group Leaders that lead multiple User Groups will be evaluated separately for the Festival event. The exception is that user groups that exist across both Community sites but meet as a single group will be evaluated as if they were the same group.
- During the Festival, members of the community who are not Leaders or Co-Leaders may register for an event hosted by a User Group (if they have not registered for the User Group event previously).
- Event registration must be completed on the Community site.
- The event must start and end between March 31 and June 30 of 2025.
- Only registrations for community members in good standing that occurred within the Festival period will be counted.
- The User Group with the most group event registrations during the Festival will be deemed the winner of the event. There will be one winner for this category, regardless of community.
Community + LinkedIn Event
The Community + LinkedIn Festival event occurs across both Community sites and LinkedIn pages.
Challenge #6: Most reposts of Community LinkedIn content
- Open to all members of the Community in good standing.
- Members must have a valid LinkedIn profile included in their Community profile.
- During the Festival, members of the community may repost content published on either of the following LinkedIn pages:
- Members must use the "Repost with your thoughts" option, where they are encouraged to share their perspective. They must also include the hashtag #mcspring25contest with their repost.
- Participants will need to capture the URL of their repost and submit it to us using this form: https://aka.ms/mcspring25contest
- All content reposted must be published during the Festival period. Reposts of older content will not be counted.
- All reposts must be published during the Festival period.
- All URL submissions must be received by April 30th of 2025.
- The member with the most validated URL submissions will be the winner. There will be one winner for this category, regardless of community.
Awards
- For Forums and Blogs Festival events, the top winner in each event for each community site will receive a complimentary pass to the Power Platform Community Conference (10/28-30): https://powerplatformconf.com/
- For User Groups and Community + LinkedIn Festival events, the top winner in each event evaluated across both sites will receive a complimentary pass to the Power Platform Community Conference (10/28-30): https://powerplatformconf.com/
- The Approximate Retail Value (ARV) of a conference pass is $1,949 USD. Note that the prize is for a conference pass only. All other travel costs including but not limited to airfare, transportation, hotel, food, taxes, and gratuities are the sole responsibility of the recipient.
- In addition, the top five participants in each event will receive digital assets awards and recognition.
- The winners of the Festival events will be announced within 15 days after the completion of all events.
- The winners of the complimentary passes will be notified within 15 days after the completion of all events via the email address associated with their community profile.
- The winners of the complimentary pass must claim and register their pass within 45 days of the completion of the Festival, or it will be voided. At the winner's discretion, the pass may be transferred to another individual of their choice before the pass is registered. If the pass is not claimed or registered after 45 days of the completion of the Festival, the pass will be rescinded. Any digital assets awards or recognition for the Festival are not affected by the awarding of the pass.
- In the event of a tie for first place in any event, the Community Management team will consider the total reputation points earned in the community to determine a winner.
- You can only win once. If you are deemed the winner of multiple categories, you will only receive one prize and a next runner up will be selected as an alternate winner.
- In the event of a tie for any of the Top Five spots outside of first place, all participants qualifying for these spots will receive the digital assets awards and recognition.
For full Official Rules, see the attached MICROSOFT COMMUNITY CHALLENGES OFFICIAL RULES.
🌷Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details. Let's make this Spring Festival unforgettable! 🌷
