Live Mesh : Service upate

Service Update for Mac, Mobile, Live Desktop (April 27, 2009)

Live Mesh Team — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:35:00 GMT

The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that our next update to Live Mesh for Mac and Windows Mobile ~~will be available later today~~ is now available. We will ~~also be updating~~ have also updated the Live Desktop. This release continues to tune performance and brings a few tweaks to the user experience, see details below. Our next update to the Windows software will be coming in the next few weeks.

Features

The last location used in the folder synchronization dialog is now saved.
Live Mesh News will displays the date and time for all news events.

Fixes

Improved the update experience
Device status (online/offline) now properly displayed on the Live Desktop
News now correctly displays the year.

Mesh for Mac and Live Desktop are 0.9.4014.3. Mesh for Mobile is 0.9.4014.2

Thank you for your continued support of Live Mesh!

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Service Update (March 23, 2009)

Live Mesh Team — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:00:00 GMT

The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that our next update for Live Mesh for Windows is now available. This release contains numerous bug fixes, as well as a few new features. Please see below for details, and thank you for using Live Mesh.

Features

Added option to hide the Live Mesh folder shortcuts on your desktop.
Live Mesh now remembers the last location used in the folder synchronization dialog.
Live Mesh News will now display the date (as well as time) for all news items, even older ones.
Curtain mode now properly supports multiple-monitor computers running Windows Vista.

Fixes

Improved the update experience.
Fixed display driver issue when disabling curtain mode.
Optimized MOE CPU/memory use.
Fixes to Live Mesh Remote Desktop performance and rendering.
Device status (online/offline) now properly displayed on the Live Desktop, in the notifier, and in the Mesh bar.
News now correctly displays the year.
Fixed issue where Live Mesh Remote Desktop caused all Windows 7 windows to have black borders.

For those of you keeping track, the new version number is:

Live Mesh for Windows: 0.9.3424.31

Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) reminder

While we no longer require that UAC be turned on when running Live Mesh on Vista SP1, if you initially installed Live Mesh with UAC turned on, and then turned it off, you might have some issues upgrading. Please see “NOTICE: Updating Live Mesh and User Account Control (UAC)” in the Known Issues sticky on the Live Mesh forums for further information.

Thank you for being one of the first to use Live Mesh!

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Client Software Update (0.9.3424.14)

jsbenjamin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:41:00 GMT

Now that we are out of our holiday blackout period for releases, we’re happy to announce that the next Live Mesh for Windows client update ~~will (at long last!) be available later today~~ is now available. Thank you for your patience, and please see below for the details. By default your Live Mesh software will automatically update itself within 24 hours of the new build being posted, but you can always right-click the Notifier icon in the system tray and choose to force an immediate update.

Update: Doh! We are embarrassed to say that the new version is going to be delayed just a little bit longer. For your safety and enjoyment, the Live Mesh client verifies the SSL certificate of the update server before downloading new code. It turns out that one of the other things we didn't get to do during the holiday blackout was update our SSL cert, which expired at end of 2008. As soon as we can get the new valid cert up there, the update will be available.

Update 2: For those of you who have recently received the error below while trying to update or install Live Mesh, the issue has now been resolved. Please try upgrading or installing Live Mesh again. If you continue to encounter problems, please visit our forums and let us know.

"Live Mesh Service is unavailable. Please retry your installation later. [80072F78] The server returned an invalid or unrecognized response."

Fixes

Conflict-handling improved for duplicate files and folders
Live Mesh no longer disables Aero in Windows 7
Continued improvements to P2P synchronization
Minor usability improvements

This update will bring your Windows Live Mesh client up to version 0.9.3424.14

Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) reminder

Thank you for helping us test Live Mesh!

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Service Update (December 8, 2008)

Live Mesh Team — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:53:00 GMT

NOTICE: Unfortunately, the update mentioned below has been ~~slightly~~ delayed (see the Update below)~~, and will not be available today. We will let everyone know later this week when the update is ready~~. In the meantime, consider this a preview of what's coming! [We do apologize for the delay, and thank you for your patience. We want to make sure that everyone has the best possible experience once the update is released, and we need a little more time to ensure that is the case.]

UPDATE: In the world of services, we have blackout periods where no updates are allowed. This is to ensure stability during, e.g., the holiday season when use of a product goes up and the availability of employees to fix issues goes down. The Live Mesh team entered this blackout period before the final testing of our next Live Mesh client for Windows was completed. Thus, we're holding this update until after the holidays - look for more news in early January.

While we updated the clients for Mobile and Mac last week, as well as the Live Desktop, those of you with Live Mesh on Windows computers had to wait a little for your update - but we're happy to say that it's coming later today! Thank you for your patience. See below for the details.

Fixes

Conflict-handling improved for duplicate files and folders
Live Mesh no longer disables Aero in Windows 7
Continued improvements to P2P synchronization
Minor usability improvements

This update will bring your Windows Live Mesh client up to version 0.9.3424.11

Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) reminder

Thank you for helping us test Live Mesh!

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Service update (December 4, 2008)

jsbenjamin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:48:00 GMT

We're pleased to announce that our next update will be available later today. This update affects the Live Desktop, Live Mesh for Mac, and Live Mesh for Mobile. We will release an update for the Live Mesh for Windows software next week. See below for details.

Fixes:

Server-side performace and reliability enhancements
Minor usability improvements

For those of you keeping track, the latest version numbers with this update are:

Live Mesh for Mac: 0.9.3602.818
Live Mesh for Mobile: 0.9.3424.9
Live Desktop: 0.9.3424.9

As always, thank you for helping us test Live Mesh!

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Update on installation of Live Mesh for Mobile

Live Mesh Team — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:02:00 GMT

Since rolling out the latest Live Mesh release this afternoon, a number of customers have reported trouble installing the Live Mesh for Mobile software. We have identified the problem and are currently working on a new build. We don’t yet have an estimated time of availability, but we will post updates here, on the blog, as we know more.

In the meantime, please do not try to install the Live Mesh for Mobile software on your mobile phone because installation will fail in most cases.

Thank you for your patience as we work to get this issue resolved quickly.

The Live Mesh Team

Service update: Beta and required client upgrade (0.9.3424.5)

Live Mesh Team — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:23:00 GMT

Whooooo boy, today is a big day for Live Mesh. We ~~are about to begin rolling~~ have finished rolling out an update which brings our service and PC software to beta with significant new features, and includes the first technology previews of the Mac and Windows Mobile clients. Details below. We blogged on Tuesday about how the combination of this platform experience beta, the additional devices, and the CTP of Live Services and the Live Framework are significant milestones on the path to bringing our software + services vision to life.

As we noted previously, users of the Technology Preview version will find that their clients must update to this latest version in order to continue participating in Live Mesh . ~~We will update the blog here when the rollout of services is complete and the new client software is available.~~ The new client software is now available!

New features:

· New devices supported. We are delighted to release our client software for Mac OS X (10.5 or higher, Intel processesor) and Windows Mobile (6.0 and 6.1). Because these are both significant new software investments for us, we’re going to only provide them on a limited basis for now (and mobile is restricted to only US or UK to start.) If you get a message saying that we’re at full capacity for these clients, keep an eye on the blog here. We’ll post updates as we increase availability over the coming months.

· To get access to the Mac client, sign in to www.mesh.com, click Add Device, and then click the “Limited Mac Tech Preview now available” link underneath the Install button. If we haven’t exceeded the limit for Mac clients, you’ll get a confirmation dialog, and then Mac will show up under the available list of devices when you choose Add Device from the ring.

· To get access to the Windows Mobile 6.x client, click on one of the following links (US residents, UK residents). Sign in with your LiveID, and you’ll be redirected to the device ring where you’ll see a link to “Use Live Mesh for mobile devices.” Alternately, once you’ve signed in this way, the mobile client should be available for download by pointing your phone’s browser to http://m.mesh.com

· Worldwide availability. We’ve removed the limits on what countries are able to sign up to use Live Mesh. We previously had limitations in place so that we could complete our testing with various language and locale settings, and now that work is indeed complete (with the caveat of course that for now the mobile client, as mentioned above, is not actually available worldwide).

· WAP access. Some of you already discovered that browsing http://m.mesh.com from your WAP-enabled phone gives you a lightweight way to view Mesh content (and, on phones that support it, upload new files.) We’re now making WAP an officially supported feature.

· Folder roles/permissions. Members of a folder can now be assigned one of the following roles to control their access rights: creator, owner, contributor, and reader. Previously, the only permission level (aka “role”) you could set for a member was “owner,” which meant that all members had the same control over the contents of a folder (adding, changing, deleting) as you did. Now, you can assign specific permissions for each member in a Live Mesh folder. Want members to be able to read what’s in a folder, but not change any content? Make them readers. Want them to be able to add to the folder, but not invite other users? Make them contributors.

· Automatic update is now available for the Live Mesh software. This has been a common user request, and we’re taking a first step towards making it possible for your Mesh client software to update itself automatically, without you having to click on any links. In this Beta release, automatic update works like magic if you chose not to install the extra enhancements that required administrator rights. If you did install them, we still have to prompt you to update so that you can click through the UAC elevation prompt and give us permission to update administrative components. We will continue to work on streamlining this process for you in future releases.

· P2P sync can be managed from your computer. When we first enabled P2P sync, you had to go to the Live Desktop to change the sync settings for a folder so that it would no longer synchronize with your Live Desktop and eat up your 5 GB storage limit. We heard from many customers that this was not very intuitive (and we agree: it wasn’t). Now you can change this sync setting from the Live Mesh software on your computer, without having to visit the Live Desktop at all.

· You can drag and drop files to folders on your Live Desktop. One of the most frequently requested features since we opened Live Mesh as a technology preview in April has been the ability to drag and drop files and folders to and from your Live Desktop. We’re extremely happy to be able to say: You can do this now! This makes the Live Desktop experience much more intuitive and even more aligned with Windows. Note that the drag-and-drop feature currently only works with a Windows PC and Internet Explorer 6 or later.

· You can select multiple files for upload or download. In addition to drag-and-drop, you can now use SHIFT and CTRL to select multiple files/folders when uploading them to your Live Desktop.

· Added new synchronization status indicators. If you’ve been using Live Mesh to sync a lot of data, you’ve probably found yourself wondering at some point how far along the synchronization process was. We’ve added an icon to the notification area of the taskbar and a progress bar so that you can tell at a glance how your folder sync is coming.

· “Get started” feature added for new users. Quick tips on how to start using Live Mesh appear on the Live Desktop and when new users install the Live Mesh software. Great for friends and family you invite!

Additional improvements:

· Improved peer-to-peer (P2P) reliability and performance. P2P synchronization is an integral part of how Live Mesh keeps your data current across all your devices. Most of the time, P2P sync happens in the background without you having to worry about it. When Live Mesh tries to update a file on one of your devices, it will leverage whatever connections it can, sometimes pulling from your Live Desktop (the “cloud”), other times pulling from your other devices. You can also choose to have some folders only sync P2P by choosing to never synchronize those folders with your Live Desktop. We have made numerous improvements to P2P sync with this release of Live Mesh. We’re now regularly testing synchronization of folders as large as 60GB, and we’ve also had success synching a single file as large as 20GB.

· Hidden remote screen is now the default for Live Mesh Remote Desktop. We heard feedback from many customers that they’d like to see this feature turned on by default to help ensure the privacy of their remote desktop feature.

· Improved conflict resolution. The user interface (UI) for resolving conflicts has been updated to be easier to use. You’ll also now see the same conflict resolution UI between the Live Mesh software on your device and the Live Desktop on the web. And, when resolving a conflict, you’ll be able to choose keep either version of a file or all versions.

· The Live Mesh bar appears minimized by default, and remembers its previous state. When you create a new Live Mesh folder, the mesh bar (appears when you open a Live Mesh folder) will now appear minimized by default. The mesh bar will also remember the last state it was in (minimized or maximized) for each Live Mesh folder, and show that state the next time you open the folder.

· Better support for large display configurations using Live Mesh Remote Desktop. We’ve added a new “superpan” feature to improve support for large desktop display configurations (e.g., high-resolution displays or multiple monitors).

· Added support for two-factor authentication for Live Mesh Remote Desktop. Enterprise customers can now require two-factor authentication (both domain password and smartcard) for Live Mesh Remote Desktop on networks~~, or choose to disable the Live Mesh Remote Desktop functionality altogether~~. (Update: the ability to disable the Live Mesh Remote Desktop functionality was going to be part of this update, but wasn't quite ready. We apologize for the confusion.)

· Install Live Mesh with roaming profiles. The Live Mesh client now supports installing to a user account with roaming profiles. Previously users may have noticed an inability to sync or remotely access devices that use roaming profiles.

Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) reminder

Thank you for helping us test Live Mesh!

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Heads up: required update to Live Mesh coming next week

Live Mesh Team — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:59:52 GMT

With PDC just around the corner, we will be releasing the next update to Live Mesh, and it’s a major one. In fact, this is the most significant update to Live Mesh since we opened as a technology preview back in April. We know that many of you are going to be excited to see all the new features and fixes this release will bring (and there are a lot of them, many in response to your requests.) In the spirit of openness with you, our technology preview customers, we’d like to take a little time today to talk about what the update experience is going to be like—and why.

For all the previous updates to Live Mesh that we’ve released since the tech preview began in April, customers were notified (via a little pop up above the Live Mesh notifier) that updates were available. When you were ready to update the Live Mesh software on your device, you clicked on that notification and the process began. If you chose not to update right away, though, that was okay—Live Mesh continued to work uninterrupted. With this update, however, things are going to be a little different. Specifically, all Live Mesh users will have to update their Live Mesh software to continue using the product. This time, you won’t be able to wait to update Live Mesh—in order to keep using it, you’ll have to update the software, and until you do that synchronization and Live Remote Desktop will not be available. There is a fairly straightforward reason for this: we are upgrading our software and services to support an open beta, and to handle that scale we need to get all of our existing users onto these new systems quickly. For this particular release, we are forgoing backwards compatibility in favor of making the new set of features as broadly available as possible. Once you see how much Live Mesh has grown, we think you’ll agree that this was the right tradeoff!

We hope the advance warning reduces the amount of interruption this upgrade might cause. We will, of course, let you know before we begin to actually deploy the new update—we just wanted to make sure all our valued early adopters were “in the know” right from the start.

Stay tuned for lots of Live Mesh and Live Services news from PDC over the next week, and thank you to all of you for the great feedback you’ve provided over the last six months. Live Mesh wouldn’t be where it is today without all of you!

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Service Update

Live Mesh Team — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:19:00 GMT

We're doing some server maintenance over the next couple days to update some of our configuration information. During this time you may experience Live Mesh service outages, including Live Mesh folders that are not synchronizing, or an inability to establish Live Mesh Remote Desktop connections to your devices. We'll update here once we've completed this work. Thanks for your patience as we get everything patched up.

UPDATE: We've completed the work mentioned above. Some users have reported issues with their devices appearing in the offline state and not available for Live Remote Desktop connections. To bring your device back to a healthy state, you need to exit and restart the Live Mesh client software, and then also stop and restart the Remote Desktop services (either net stop/start wlcrasvc, or just reboot). Step by step directions are at http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/LiveMesh/threads/ under the "Live Remote Desktop Issue" thread.

Quick background: our updates this week involved a regularly scheduled update of some of the certificates we use to identify devices in the Mesh and to encrypt traffic sent to or through our servers. We've discovered some cases where the client software doesn't pick up all the right updates unless you follow the particular order above (restart the client software/notifier first, then restart the remote desktop service. As always, we appreciate your help in tracking down these kinds of issues in our Tech Preview.

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Got conflicts or missing files? An update...

Live Mesh Team — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:40:00 GMT

Last week, we posted about an issue that might cause your Live Mesh Folders to either appear to have missing files, or have unexpectedly large numbers of conflicts. We mentioned that we were testing a fix and we’d update you as soon as possible…and then it got quiet here for a bit. The good news is that we’ve made a lot of progress since then, so here’s an update.

The root cause of the issue (clients not synching properly after encountering too many tombstones in a row) is fixed. We actually put this fix into production early last week, and then watched to make sure tombstones were no longer causing any issues. It’s been a week now, and we’re feeling good that we have this particular tombstone issue fixed. We grudgingly admit that we are not perfect, and there might be other bugs left in our Tech Preview that cause incorrect conflicts or synch behavior – keep reporting issues that you see, and we’ll keep fixing them.

Of course we also want to help users who previously hit this bug and have folders that are in a confused state. If you were hitting the issue where folders were only partially synchronizing, you should have already seen this fixed – the first time your client software contacted the server with the fix in production, the server should have returned the complete file list.

If you hit the issue where a folder had a large number of conflicts, we have good news for you here as well. This particular tombstoning issue affects folders in a very distinct way, since it ends up creating conflicting items whose names and file contents are identical. Conveniently, this also means that it’s fairly easy to automate clean up of such a folder. Since we can tell that there are no real conflicts (that is, the files are in fact identical as determined by hashing file contents), we can remove any conflicts and just keep one copy of each file. The net result is that we’ve written a tool which can identify folders affected by this particular bug, and then automatically clean them up. The tool runs entirely in our datacenter, it never actually accesses file contents (we create/store the hash on upload), and it never exposes any of the filename data outside the datacenter. We can ask the tool to give us back a list of LiveIDs of users who have affected folders, and then we can tell the tool to go fix all the folders that a given LiveID owns (if you create a folder, Live Mesh treats you as the owner.)

This tool should fix many of the conflicts created by this tombstone issue, but not all of them. If your folders have been out of synch, and you’ve been making changes to files on multiple PCs, well then you have actually generated a real conflict (two different copies of the file exist), and it will take your attention to decide which copy to keep.

Here’s the announcement about the tool that we’re posting to the forums with details on how to get your affected folders cleaned up:

Last week we posted a sticky in our forums containing the details of a recently discovered issue which has resulted in some Live Mesh folders being only partially synchronized. To better serve our customers, we have analyzed our storage service to identify folders that might have been impacted. If our analysis shows that you have a folder that might have been affected by this issue, resulting in either a large number of conflicts associated with your folders or fewer than expected files, you will be receiving an e-mail from us within the next three days asking whether you would like us to perform an automated clean up tool on our servers that will resolve spurious conflicts and retrieve missing files. Further details about this process will be included in that e-mail. Note that while this tool can greatly assist those with large numbers of affected folders, we cannot guarantee that all files and folders will be restored to their original state.

We will also soon be posting steps for performing a manual recovery to help those of you who have a small number of affected folders.

Finally, please remember that Live Mesh is currently a Tech Preview and that you should always backup any data stored in Live Mesh.

UPDATE: We have posted instructions for how to manually clean up affected folders here.

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Service update: new build available (0.9.3103.14)

Live Mesh Team — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:34:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that our next update is now available. The new build contains a crucial Live Mesh folder synchronization fix – details below. By default your Live Mesh software will automatically update itself within 24 hours of the new build being posted, but you can always right-click the Notifier icon in the system tray and choose to force an immediate update.

Fix:

· Fixed issue where deleting a Live Mesh folder on one device, or stopping the folder from synchronizing on that device, would cause the folder to stop synchronizing on all devices.

If any of your Live Mesh folders have been affected by this issue, please use the following steps to re-establish stable sync relationships for those folders:

1. Update the Live Mesh software on all of your device to the newest version.

2. If any affected folders are currently set to synchronize with your mesh, please stop those folders from synchronizing on each of your devices.

a. Right-click on the folder and select Live Mesh Options, then click Change Sync Settings

b. For each device, under Synchronize files, select Never with this device.

3. Once you have removed the affected folders from your mesh, you can then add them back in again by right-clicking the folder and selecting Add folder to your Live Mesh.

Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) reminder

While we no longer require that UAC be enabled when running Live Mesh on Vista SP1, if you initially installed Live Mesh with UAC enabled, and then disabled it, you might have some issues upgrading. Please see the “NOTICE: Updating Live Mesh and User Account Control (UAC)” Announcement on the Live Mesh forums for further information.

Thank you for helping us test Live Mesh!

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Service update: new build coming today (0.9.3103.13)

Live Mesh Team — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:51:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that our next update ~~will be available later today~~ is now available. The new build contains a number of reliability and performance improvements; we've highlighted the key fixes below. By default your Live Mesh software will automatically update itself within 24 hours of the new build being posted, but you can always right-click the Notifier icon in the system tray and choose to force an immediate update.

Fixes:

Increased the reliability of Live Mesh folder behavior in Windows Explorer.
Fixed a problem with the ‘Save As’ dialog in Internet Explorer when downloading video files from the Live Desktop.
Enabled syncing of files greater than 2GB in size.
Greatly increased the speed of P2P synchronization.
Implemented a number of reliability fixes for backend services.
And, of course, a bunch of additional general performance improvements.

Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) reminder

And as always, thank you for all the great feedback!

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Live Mesh Expansion

jmazner — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:44:00 GMT

Amit Mital here – I run the Live Mesh & Developer Platform team. At Web 2.0 in April we announced Live Mesh and opened it up for people to try out our platform experience -- the first evidence of what scenarios our platform is capable of enabling.

We said we’d tell you more about Live Mesh and give you access to the platform in the future, allowing you to build your own experiences on top of Live Mesh. En route to opening up the developer platform we’ve been systematically updating and expanding the tech preview to help us scale out the underlying technology (see behind the mesh). We’ve enjoyed watching our service handling the load, and we want more!

Today we are again increasing the number of available slots in the Live Mesh Technology Preview, and expanding the list of countries that will allow sign-up without a wait list to include Canada, India and Ireland! (although you still need to run with an English locale for now.) This is in addition to the availability we’ve previously announced for USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand (see coverage map).

The experience you see today is just tip of the iceberg! To see what the Live Mesh platform is capable of, check out the Channel 9 videos, and try out the user experience. We’re eager for you help to keep pushing our scale, and your feedback!

We do still have a maximum limit on the number of users we’ll allow into the Technology Preview, but as long as we’re below the limit, anyone in the countries above can sign-up today with no delays or wait list.

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Service update: new build coming today (0.9.3103.9)

Live Mesh Team — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:46:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the release of our next update, which ~~will be~~ is now available ~~later today~~. We’re making Live Mesh available to even more people, and removing the limit on the number of invites that you have. We’ve also greatly streamlined the sign-up process. And of course we’ve made a number of general performance improvements as well. There are more details below. By default your Live Mesh client will automatically update itself within 24 hours of the new build being posted, but you can always right-click the Notifier icon in the system tray and choose to force an immediate update.

What's new

More capacity: We’ve again raised the limit on the total number of customers we’ll allow to access the Live Mesh Tech Preview. Get ‘em while they’re hot!
Expanded availability: If your country/region is the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, or New Zealand you can sign up for Live Mesh directly, with no waiting list, by visiting www.mesh.com. We’re limiting the Tech Preview to these countries/regions for now because we want to make sure that all customers have a great experience with Live Mesh, and we’re still in the process of testing the experience for other countries/regions.
More invites: There is no longer any limit on the number of invitations that Live Mesh customers have for inviting others to the Tech Preview. Invite as many people as you like! (as long as they're in one of the countries/regions mentioned above, of course.)
Simplified waiting list: Though we’re not quite ready to accept customers into the Tech Preview from countries/regions other than the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, we have greatly simplified the waiting list process for everyone else. You no longer need to sign up through Microsoft Connect. Instead, simply sign in with your Live ID on www.mesh.com, click Sign Up, and you’ll automatically be notified once Live Mesh is available in your country/region.
Performance tuning: We’ve continued making a number of back-end performance enhancements, including tuning the P2P synchronization channel.

Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) reminder

While we no longer require that UAC be enabled when running Live Mesh on Vista SP1, if you initially installed Live Mesh with UAC enabled, and then disabled it, you might have some issues upgrading. Please see the “NOTICE: Updating Lie Mesh and User Account Control (UAC)” Announcement on the Live Mesh forums for further information.

As always, we are continuing to improve Live Mesh with all the great feedback we’ve been receiving from our customers. Keep it coming!

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Minor service update today

Live Mesh Team — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:35:38 GMT

We will be rolling out a tune-up for the Live Desktop later today, July 21. There will be no update to the Live Mesh software. You may notice a slowdown in service or some display issues while the servers update. If you are still seeing these problems after the 21st, please report them on the forums or through Microsoft Connect.

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