October 2007 - Posts

• Current issues with access to MSDN and TechNet Subscriber Downloads

  We are aware that some Subscribers have recently become unable to access Subscriber Downloads, receiving Error Code 11008 when attempting to gain access. During recent system maintenance, changes were made that have created issues with access from some Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:39 AM by SubscriptionsBlogger2 | 2 Comments Filed under: Downloads, System errors

• 11008 Errors - some positive movement to share

  The dev teams have made some positive progress on identifying fixes for the 11008 errors. They are coordinating with all the impacted systems to coordinate dev and test environments. They are still unsure whether the code updates being implemented will Read More... Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 9:58 PM by SubscriptionsBlogger2 | 10 Comments

• 11008 Errors - a status update

  There is an increase in activity going on to identify and resolve the conditions that are resulting in the 11008 errors that some MSDN and TechNet Subscribers are experiiencing when attempting to access Subscriber Downloads. Several dev teams are working Read More... Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 11:57 PM by SubscriptionsBlogger2 | 11 Comments Filed under: Downloads, System errors

• Another maintenance window starting this Friday Oct 12

  There will be some additional maintenance work going on starting this Friday for the Subscriber Downloads impacting content availability. This work will be performed in two phases starting Friday evening at 5PM (US PDT). Phase 1 will be from 5PM - 10PM Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:26 AM by MSDNSubscriptions | 1 Comments Filed under: Downtime

• Product Availability for Vista SP1, XP SP3, and Windows Home Server

  In response to Color's comments/questions: Vista SP1 is expected to RTM in the first quarter of 2008, and we would expect to have it on Subscriber Downloads very shortly after release. XP SP3 (did you mean Office or Windows XP?) Windows XP SP3 “SP3 for Read More... Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 10:13 AM by MSDNSubscriptions | 8 Comments Filed under: product availability

• MSDN Subscriber Downloads Database Update COMPLETE

  The scheduled downtime for Subscriber Downloads for a database upgrade was completed this morning at 6AM PDT. Read More... Posted Sunday, October 07, 2007 7:55 PM by MSDNSubscriptions | 6 Comments Filed under: Downloads, Downtime

• MSDN Subscriber Downloads will be UNAVAILABLE this weekend for DB Upgrade

  The system that hosts the MSDN and TechNet Subscriber Downloads content will be unavailable intermittently over this weekend for a database upgrade. Start: Friday, October 5th, 2007 5:00 PM PDT End: Monday, October 8th, 2007 2:00 AM PDT Duration: 57 hours Read More... Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 11:12 AM by MSDNSubscriptions | 0 Comments Filed under: Downloads, Downtime

• Greeetings!

  Hello everyone. I know I have large shoes to fill with Seth's departure, but I am looking forward to it. As was mentioned in the intro that Seth posted, I am a Product Manager on the Subsriptions Team. My focus area is currently the NEXT version of the Read More... Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 10:57 AM by MSDNSubscriptions | 0 Comments