Where are you getting the link from?  From the "IR" icon in the System Tray on Windows?

@Pravin Barton  / @Timothy Leavitt  - is there a reference you can point Alan to which will answer these questions for him?

Community Edition users can still reach out to the WRC.  If they explain the issue, then the WRC will look into the matter.  This is an application that I own and I have already asked my team to start looking at what is going on with this users' account, but contacting the WRC is always advisable to issues can be investigated that are blocking people from getting our software.  

Please have your student reach out to the WRC so they can look into this issue.  In all likelihood there is something specific to the student's account that needs to be corrected

It looks like Production.cls is a production class which is loaded into and compiled within the IRIS data platform.  You would need a connection in order to load and compile the code.  I am not sure what you mean by compiling the code (which required IRIS) without a connection to IRIS?  Can you please explain more about what you are trying to accomplish?   

I think this is awesome! I appreciate your publishing it John - I learned a lot and will discuss this with my team to see what might be useful (CC: @Timothy Leavitt )

No ... all kit distribution to supported customers is through the Distribution section of the WRC.  

well done, and thank you for being so involved :)

@Robert Cemper  - thank you very much for all the ways in which you strive to continue to make out Community better!  I am sure this took time to pull together - I hope it gets traction.

thank you for continuing to make this better and better :)

Really great overview!!  Super helpful reference having all of these in one place :)  Thank you!

This was more to figure out the proper way to do this in order for tracking for the badge, etc on the G.M. platform.  It makes sense that it needs to originate in a challenge (and than you to Olga for pointing that out).

I don't think that just having a form on the D.C. to invite a friend necessarily makes sense, as anyone can just shoot a friend an email with the link.  If others would like to see this as a new feature I won't object though.

Thank you @Olga Zavrazhnova!  I knew I had seen it somewhere at some point.  I just had a conversation with a new colleague yesterday about the value of the D.C. and Global Masters, so I will send her an invite :)

"Invite your colleague to Developer Community" - is there a formal way to do this via the D.C. interface?  I looked around and couldn't seem to find an 'invite a friend' option or anything like that.  I have some colleagues whom I think would benefit from getting involved in the D.C. (CC: @Anastasia Dyubaylo / @Evgeny Shvarov )

I thought that Windows containers still have issues?  Or is Windows on Docker at full parity now with Linux on Docker?

Thanks Bob - that's a great reference to be aware of (I hadn't seen it in the docs before)

@Julian Matthews  - it is never too late :)  Since you know the exact version that you were upgrading from / to, I think you're in the best position to still report this as a bug to the WRC.  They can then test to see if it's still an issue on the latest versions and they can log an internal bug if that is that case.  I would encourage you to still take a little time and ensure it is officially logged.

did you report this as a bug to Support?  it seems to me that this value should always persist since an upgrade shouldn't change the function of the environment 

great!  thank you for letting us know the solution :)

very helpful :)