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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 1:28 PM

Coming soon- Zune on Connect!

I've had a little project cooking on the side since I started with the Zune Services Team last month. One of the things that many of the Zune folks do is help customers out in the Zune Forums with issues they have, answering questions and the like. Sometimes
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Monday, June 29, 2009 4:50 PM

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Greetings! I know I've been somewhat quiet of late, but there's a good reason- I've been transitioning to a new position here at Microsoft! I've just joined the Zune team, working on catalog services. It's a very exciting change and a great position-
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Monday, June 02, 2008 9:54 AM

Still Here, Yes

First, apologies for not keeping my blog up to date. It always seems like there's some fire to put out, and blogging keeps taking a back seat. Well, no more. So, on to current events. If you haven't yet seen the new Connect Site , you should check it
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Monday, July 30, 2007 11:45 AM

Recent Connect Stability Issues

Recently there have been a number of short, isolated outages with Connect. These have occured at generally random times of day and have usually been short, less than 10 minutes. We've been working hard to isolate the problem. I can't go into specific
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Monday, July 30, 2007 11:29 AM

Coming changes to Connect's development team

With the recent release of Connect 2.4, the Connect team is beginning a phase of more regular releases, in a hopefully dependable rhythm that we can continue to rely on. The Connect team has grown somewhat as Connect has grown. The Connect team is reorganizing
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:43 PM

ZOMG Connect was down!

Sadly, it's true. At about 9:30 AM Pacific time, the Connect site and our internal management tools for it began having problems, and shortly after went down. We've added some new monitoring tools and process to the system recently, and they informed
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:52 AM

Connect 2.3 QFE 1

Hey there! Last night we deployed the first set of patches to Connect 2.3. Nearly all of these were what would be termed "backend" fixes for problems we encountered with the new user profile store. I did work out some changes for issues like this one
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 2:50 PM

Connect 2.3 Alpha 2

Hi folks- we've just completed deployment of the latest Connect 2.3 bits to http://connectbeta.microsoft.com . Please take a look and see what you think. There are a few changes you may find nice, but keep in mind that this is VERY early in the process,
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:59 AM

Connect 2.3- AJAX!

The Connect team is in the middle of development on Connect version 2.3, a minor functionality release of the site targeted for late spring or early summer. We're putting an emphasis on usability and user experience in this release. One thing I've been
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:47 PM

Betaplace Retirement

As many of you have probably noted, Betaplace ( http://beta.microsoft.com ) has been retired. The last program on Betaplace was closed yesterday. Betaplace, like JDPWeb, Ladybug, WindowsBeta and several other pre-release and beta programs at Microsoft,
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:32 PM

Connect 2.2 QFE 1 Deployed

It went up yesterday- thanks for your patience, especially you Vista testers, who bore the brunt of the display issues. We're already hard at work on Connect 2.3, and I'll provide more data on that as we move forward and solidify things.
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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
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