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October 2006 - Posts

Monday, October 30, 2006 3:41 PM

And, we're back

Connect is back up and running. Thank you for your patience!
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Monday, October 30, 2006 2:13 PM

Microsoft Connect Down

We had a severe and major hardware failure today, and the Microsoft Connect site is down as a result. We're working as rapidly as possible to resolve this issue and it's our current top priority. No data will be lost as a result. We currently have no
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Monday, October 30, 2006 10:24 AM

First post-2.2 fixes coming

We had a pretty good Connect 2.2 deployment, although it took a little longer than we expected. We've identified what caused that and it shouldn't occur again. We've got our Release Manager working on a mechanism for zero-downtime deployments of Connect
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:36 PM

Connect 2.2 Deployment

Connect 2.2 is being deployed as I write this, as you may have noticed from the "Site Maintenance" page. However, a snag was hit during the upgrade which forced us to restart a process, and we're going to be longer than the original timeframe. We're hoping
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:28 AM

Putting our money where your experience is, Part II

A while back, I posted that the Connect team had committed to donating a penny for each unexpected error experienced by a customer on the Connect site . Well, the numbers are in, and here's where things stand: For the period from the Connect 2.0 release
Posted by Cyclometh | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:57 AM

Connect 2.3 and the My Participation page- your input needed

Hey folks. Our Community PM, Bradley Vavra, is spinning up the process for a revamp of the My Participation and Available Connections pages on the Connect site . We already have a number of bugs and suggestions filed against those pages, but I'd like
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Monday, October 16, 2006 10:35 AM

It really is a small world

This morning, I received an email forwarded to me, originally from one of the folks on the OneNote team. It was basically forwarding a link to a blog entry by someone with the nom de guerre of Yivvits , a character in the Star Wars: Galaxies MMO who,
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:04 PM

Vista Tester Event Recap

Last week, a number of Windows Vista testers were invited out to campus by the Vista beta team. Myself and a few of my teammates were very fortunate to get a chance to attend a get-together which included the Vista testers and many of the Vista beta team
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:24 AM

Connect 2.2 Feedback

For those of you that have taken the time to look at Connect 2.2 on the ConnectBeta site, thanks! Connect 2.2 is in lockdown at the moment, which means we don't make any changes that we don't consider absolutely necessary for the site to function. This
Posted by Cyclometh | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:11 PM

Connect 2.2 Preview

Is finally here ! Go to https://connectbeta.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=3 and take a look around. You can do most of the things you can on the main Connect site, although you'll find that the available programs list is pretty limited. None
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Monday, October 09, 2006 9:26 AM

Connect and File Attachments

Recently, an email exchange occured between myself and a Connect user. This person was wondering why Connect didn't allow users to download files attached from other users. An example scenario would be that when a user files a bug, they might attach a
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Monday, October 09, 2006 10:55 AM

Preview Update

Hey folks- sorry I didn't come through on the details of the 2.2 preview. We had some UX changes to implement and those kept me pretty busy the last few days. On the plus side, the new changes look great and hopefully we can get them in front of you folks
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