For those of you using adCenter, you should have already received notice about the release of the v5 API. If you haven't drop us a mail to us at adplate at microsoft! I won't go through all the details of the upgrade here, this is a major release for us. It contains some great improvements such as 'Retrieving Objects by ID', 'Negative Keywords', Superior Error Reporting, and many, many others. Perhaps most key is the normalization of Object naming to match the adCenter GUI and the industry standard. We'll be supporting v4 and v5 in parallel for 180 days to ensure that everyone has a comfortable upgrade window.
Key Dates:
We have a couple of great resources available to help with migration: the v5 Release notes on MSDN, and also a series of 'Open Sessions'. These Open Sessions are 90 min long meetings dedicated to helping users migrate - first 30 meetings preso, last 60 minutes Q&A. The next ones are:
To attend, just join the live meeting (https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=P96SDC&role=attend&pw=AdCenOH). In case you can't make any of the above (or want to get an earlier start) here is the recording from Feb's session:
Cheers!,Daniel