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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, December 17, 2007 11:30 AM

Connect 3.0 Beta- first impressions?

So I'm curious what people think of the new look and feel of the Connect 3.0 beta site . We've seen some activity and a few suggestions/bugs filed (thanks!), but I'm interested in general feedback on the site. What do you like, not like, etc?
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:47 PM

Connect 3.0 Beta- Check it out!

The new Microsoft Connect site, which we've been working at for months, is now in public beta at http://connectbeta.microsoft.com . Head on over and check out some of the new features: A Dashboard showing all your activity (across all your connections)!
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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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Saturday, June 02, 2007 4:00 PM

Connect 2.3 is up!

After what I understand was a very uneventful upgrade procedure, the Connect site is back up at http://connect.microsoft.com . Please take a look. Also be sure to check out http://connectbeta.microsoft.com for a look at our upcoming 2.4 release!
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Friday, June 01, 2007 5:21 PM

Connect 2.3 Is Coming

Tomorrow morning (Saturday, June 2), assuming we run into no late-breaking issues, the Connect team will be deploying Microsoft Connect 2.3. This is a release we've been working on for quite some time now, and we're very excited to be releasing it. What's
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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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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:21 AM

Happy New Year from Connect

Howdy folks- I hope your holiday season was a good one! On behalf on the Connect team, best wishes for 2007! The Connect team has been working hard on the next version of Connect- 2.3. I've been spending a lot of time writing specifications and there's
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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 3:41 PM

And, we're back

Connect is back up and running. Thank you for your patience!
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