This forum is moving on Monday 6/23

Question

Microsoft has created a new forums platform (MSDN | TechNet | Expression | Microsoft) with increased performance, stability, and an improved user experience. On Thursday (6/5) this forum will be moving to the new platform.

 

On the day the forum moves to the new platform, a post will be made letting you know the process has been started, and the forum will be locked to new posts. Once the process is complete, a final post to the forum will be made letting you know the forum has moved.

 

1.       All posts in the forum will be preserved

2.       Any points you’ve received for replies will move with you (on a per forum basis)

3.       Any bookmarks to this forum or threads within this forum will redirect to their new location

4.       Your “My Threads” will be preserved on the new platform

 

The only thing you’ll need to do after migration is set Windows Live Alerts for any threads you were tracking.

 

If you have feedback, let us know in the suggestions forum or contact me directly at Andrew.Brenner at Microsoft.com

 

Thanks,

-Andrew

Answer 1

 

The scheduled migration of this forum did not occur today as planned.  As soon as the migration date is determined, an update will be posted to this forum.  Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.   

 

Thanks!

Alicia Cales

Program Manager

Server and Tools Online Engineering Live Services

 

 

Answer 2

We were originally planned to migrate this forum to the new forums last Thursday (6/5), but have decided to reschedule for early next week.

 

We understand the bugs on the current platform make it painful to wait longer to move to the new forums. However, in the past few weeks, we’ve tripled the hardware infrastructure running the current forums, so while there are some ongoing bugs, they should stay fast and stable until we can safely migrate. Given the past troubles we’ve had with the current forums, we’re being very conservative about migration.

 

The new forums have been very stable, and would have no trouble handling additional forums. However, making sure we avoid issues like we’ve had with the current forums remains our #1 priority. We’re putting 100% of our focus on engineering improved scalability, robustness and performance into Forums 3.3. Since these are the same people who do the migrations we’ve postponed additional migrations to enable them to stay focused on this effort.

 

Thank you for your patience and continued support.  As always, should you run into any problems with the Forums 2.x environment, please report issues to the Forums 2.x Bug Reporting Forum.

 

Thanks,

-Andrew

Answer 3

This forum will be migrated on Monday 6/23. Details on what to expect in the post above. Thanks for your patience.

 

-Andrew