.NET Services July 2009 CTP Breaking Changes Announcement and Scheduled Maintenance
The .NET Services Team is going to release the July 2009 CTP on 7/7/2009 (Tuesday). Users will have NO access to .NET Services Portal and .NET Services during the scheduled maintenance down time.
Scheduled Maintenance Down Time:
START: July 7, 2009, 9am PST
END: July 7, 2009, 3pm PST
Action Required:
Queues and Routers data will NOT be persisted and restored after the maintenance. Users will need to back up their data if they wish to restore them after the July 2009 CTP release. Please see below for detail.
As previously announced, the existing Workflow Service will be removed from .NET Services in the July 2009 CTP release. Any solutions that currently rely on the Workflow Services will have to be modified on or before 7/7/2009 9am PST in order to continue functioning smoothly. Existing solution Workflow Service metadata such as Workflow Type will also be deleted and cannot be retrieved after the July 2009 CTP release.
Impact Alert:
.NET Services and the .NET Services Portal will be unavailable during this period.
Please read the following detail to prepare your applications for this scheduled maintenance:
.NET Service Bus
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Queues |
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Description |
Queues and Routers data will NOT be persisted and restored after the scheduled maintenance. |
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Pre-Release Behavior |
n/a |
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Post-Release Behavior |
n/a |
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Recommended Pre-Release Action |
Queues and Routers will NOT be persisted and restored after the scheduled maintenance. It is highly recommended for users to back up data locally from running Queues prior to 7/7/2009 9am PST. Please see our .NET Services SDK samples such as SimpleMessagesQueueSample consumer on how to retrieve messages from Queues. |
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Recommended Post-Release Action |
Users will need to restart their applications after the scheduled maintenance. Queues and Routers will need to be re-created.
If users have back up pre-release Queue data, users can load back-up data to new Queues based on the SimpleMessagesQueueSample sender in the .NET Services SDK. |
.NET Workflow Service
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Workflow Service |
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Description |
.NET Workflow Service will be removed after the scheduled maintenance. |
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Pre-Release Behavior |
n/a |
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Post-Release Behavior |
n/a |
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Recommended Pre-Release Action |
Users will need to modify any solutions that rely on Workflow Service on or before 7/7/2009 9am PST.
Users may choose to save any Workflow Service metadata locally on or before 7/7/2009 9am PST. Workflow Service metadata in the cloud will not be available after the scheduled maintenance. |
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Recommended Post-Release Action |
n/a
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The .NET Services Team
