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...

Well that was one long, long week… My plan following the upgrade was to post about how it went and to introduce everyone to the new features of the site. And now it’s 9 days later… oh well, you live, you learn, you try to get some...

So apparently I wasn't just right back and it's been 5 months since I blogged. Oh how time flies. Anyway, updates to the blog platform are still taking place. Over the past few months we've been working pretty hard to update the performance of the...

Just a quick post to let folks know we are working on our next update. Some of the fixes are targeted at just the blog writers but we wanted to address some of the immediate feedback we got after doing the upgrade to the blog platform as well. This...

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...

Folks, just a short post to alert you that the June update for the MSDN and TechNet blogs is coming out on Tuesday afternoon (6/29). There is no expected downtime though if we blip for a few moments be patient… :) Here are a few of the bigger things you...

Well folks I'm back. I've been busy working on a whole slew of things around MSDN and TechNet including these blogs, our TechNet Wiki and our central profile system. You may have noticed if you've viewed your profile lately that we are in the process...

When a day comes along that looks like this out my office window... well let's just say I'd work a rainy Saturday to trade for being outside today ;-)

As per my previous posts, we've finished the integration of the MSDN and TechNet Blogs into the Profile and Recognition system, allowing us to recognize the contributions from bloggers, commentators and raters. Now that the data is flowing in, we've been...

Check out the new series about the updates coming for TechNet! http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2010/02/02/technet-2-0-episode-1-core-scenarios-and-branding.aspx

Earlier today we released an update to the MSDN and TechNet blogs. Some of these features are customer facing so I wanted to make sure to share these changes with y’all. Localization: Spanish, German, Japanese We are very excited to introduce...

It's been a few months again... bad me. Anyway, the team is busy working on upgrading the underlying platform to the next version of Telligent Community Server (5.6). There are some infrastructure changes that need to be completed as part of this upgrade...

So Hi. I'm Sean. I'm the new PM for blogs.msdn.com and blogs.technet.com. I have a ton to learn, a ton to ramp up on, a community to get to know and a lot of things to do. I'll attempt to keep everyone informed on the progress as we move this platform...

Pretty eh? I do motion graphics in my ahem, spare time… this is something I recently put together. It has animation to move the camera and elements around as well… What’s this got to with the blog? I’m making sure I understand...

Hey, they are giving me a free phone later in the year - the least I can do is pass on some blog posts to y'all... that said, I am into graphic design and so am definitely interested in hearing what you have to say about the "metro" design they are building...

(passing along some great resources we are releasing today for free...) Today, we are releasing the Web Camps Training Kit: July 2010 Edition - Download it here . The kit includes all the content we presented around the world at the recent Web Camps...

Shameless cross-team promotion today... that and I did the little bytes by TN graphic intro ;-) I will be back real soon with posts about the blog platform, FY11 plans, upcoming features etc... --- Just wanting to raise awareness of this series...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you’ve been paying attention to the MSDN or TechNet Blogs and Forums or the TechNet Wiki over the past week you may have seen some changes that include little hovering user profile cards and a new recognition system. I’ve mentioned it before but after...