Now where was I? Oh yeah, that's right, deploying the final bits! Today has been a great day. We began around 9:30am bringing online the migrated data and moving the migrated files into position. We also deployed the final web bits, updated our backend...

On Track. It Is. We completed and packaged our final build of the web application bits today. Site themes are done. MSDN and TechNet blog themes are done. So Friday we begin the final deployment of the web bits and the migrated data. So perhaps...

Who would have thought that my little blog post and the blog migration would have been picked up by the press ...? It’s always interesting to hear what others think and we genuinely appreciate any feedback we receive. Good or bad, we won’t...

Data migration continued on schedule today and we are optimistic that everything will complete as planned. It’s good to see that our multiple dry-run tests of the data migration process have paid off with a smooth (knock on wood) production run...

Many thanks to the blog authors who have been helping to spread the word about the migration. Hopefully y’all surviving not commenting on the posts that have been published today… ;-) So far, so good with the data migration progress. The...

As I've mentioned in a few posts last week (and other bloggers on MSDN and TechNet have shared), the blog migration is getting underway tonight. As this post goes live we are backing up the millions of posts, users, comments, images, files and profiles...

The upgrade to the blogging platform will begin on Sunday May 16th at about 9pm PDST. With the amount of data we need to migrate, it's going to be May 24th around 12pm PDST before everything is back online. During that time commenting will be turned off...

Great question… while the majority of changes really impact and affect the blog writers and authors, there are some changes you, the blog reader will see. Let’s get into them… Home Pages – the home pages have been updated to reflect the current...

Hi, I'm the PM for the MSDN and TechNet blogs. And in just two weeks from now we are going to be migrating to an entirely new blog platform. Over the next week I'm going to introduce you to that platform. First though, there are some things you should...