Planned System Maintenance - Saturday November 14, 2009 03:00 AM - 05:30 AM EST (GMT - 5)
Summary:
The ASP.NET servers
will be undergoing routine maintenance. | | 0 | 13 | 11/14/2009 12:16:16 AM |
Change in URL for NNTP access
The URL for accessing the ASP.NET Forums through NNTP is now: news://nntp-forums.asp.net
You can continue to use the same ASP.NET site login cr
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Planned System Maintenance - Saturday October 17, 2009 03:00 AM - 07:00 AM EDT (GMT - 4)
Summary:
The ASP.NET servers will be undergoing rou | | 0 | 17 | 11/11/2009 10:20:41 AM |
Email notifications temporarily suspended
We have suspended the email notifications while we rebuild the search index. Notifications are being queued, and will be sent out once the service is turned back on. We apologize for | | 0 | 12 | 11/11/2009 10:20:39 AM |
Change in CDN origin tonight - 7:00 PM EDT(GMT-4)
We are making a change tonight in the CDN origin to point to a new IP address. This change should be completely transparent to all site visitors, and there should be no downtime.
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Planned System Maintenance - Monday September 28, 2009 23:00 PM - 23:30 PM EDT (GMT - 4)
Summary:
One of the
ASP.NET servers will again be undergoing routine maintenance. This will
result in a short period of downtime for some | | 0 | 14 | 11/11/2009 10:20:36 AM |
Blog posts will now be accepted as Article of the Day
On Friday 9/25/2009 we loosened the requirements for Article of the Day a bit. We still are looking for h | | 0 | 17 | 11/11/2009 10:20:35 AM |
Forums.asp.net updates for 9/24/2009
The following were just deployed with regard to forums performance.
- CDN for css, js, and css related images
- CSS and JS consolidation.
- Fix for issues with
| | 0 | 12 | 11/11/2009 10:20:34 AM |
Planned System Maintenance - Friday September 18, 2009 21:00 PM - 21:30 PM EDT (GMT - 4)
Summary:
One of the
ASP.NET servers will again be undergoing routine maintenance. This will
result in a short period of downtime for some | | 0 | 14 | 11/11/2009 10:20:33 AM |
Planned System Maintenance - Thursday September 17, 2009 21:00 PM - 21:30 P M EDT (GMT - 4)
Planned System Maintenance
Summary: One of the ASP.NET servers will be undergoing ro | | 0 | 19 | 11/11/2009 10:20:30 AM |
forums and www updated to use CDN
Forums.asp.net and www.asp.net are both updated to use CDN to serve images. This is release #1 of the CDN work. The next release related to CDN will integrate further. There are | | 0 | 10 | 11/11/2009 10:20:27 AM |
Reputation database update - 8/28/2009 1pm US Central Time
The database for the reputation system had some locking optimizations applied. This may help the new post response time. The legacy reputation system's database was missing lock h | | 0 | 21 | 11/11/2009 10:20:27 AM |
Forums Deployment - August 19, 2009
This afternoon we deployed a new build of the ASP.NET Forums. This new build includes: - Use client-side binding for the ASP.NET Forums landing page
- Remove inline scripts f
| | 0 | 16 | 11/11/2009 10:20:26 AM |
Short outage this evening
We will be making some infrastructure updates tonight, starting at 7:00 PM EDT (GMT-4). We anticipate that there will be a period of site inaccessability for Silverlight.NET, ASP.NET, Windo | | 0 | 13 | 11/11/2009 10:20:25 AM |
User avatars are currently disabled
As we deal with an issue on an overtaxed database, we have turned off the display of user avatars on the site. Once we have completed some backend work with the database servers we will tur | | 0 | 10 | 11/11/2009 10:20:23 AM |
Windows Live ID authentication integration
Tonight we are deploying Windows Live ID authentication integration across the ASP.NET website. You might notice some slowness or intermittent errors on the site as we get the pieces into p | | 0 | 12 | 11/11/2009 10:20:23 AM |
Updated Text Editor
Tonight we updated the text editor being used on the site. We moved from Tiny MCE 2.0 to Tiny MCE 3.0. Those of you who have chosen the "Standard Editor" or "Advanced E | | 0 | 7 | 11/11/2009 10:20:21 AM |
ASP.NET Forums outage this morning
For those that noticed and were concerned, the ASP.NET and IIS.NET forums experienced a 36 minute outage this morning, from 11:24 AM to 12:01 PM EDT (GMT-4), due to a back end problem with one of th | | 0 | 11 | 11/11/2009 10:20:20 AM |
Reindexing the ASP.NET Forums content
We are currently rebuilding the search indexes for the ASP.NET Forums content. During this reindexing time period, your search results will only include the posts that have been reindexed u | | 0 | 11 | 11/11/2009 10:20:20 AM |
Server Maintenance - Saturday June 13, 2009 03:00 AM - 07:00 AM EDT (GMT - 4)
The ASP.NET servers will be undergoing routine maintenance on Saturday June 13, 2009 03:00 AM - 07:00 AM EDT (GMT - 4). You can expect slow response time intermittently during that period.
| | 0 | 22 | 11/11/2009 10:20:17 AM |
Removal of 16x16 avatars from the Last Post column
No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. In our ongoing effort to address performance issues, we've removed the 16x16 avatars from the "Last Post" column on pages that contain lists of | | 0 | 14 | 11/11/2009 10:20:13 AM |
Server Maintenance - Saturday May 16, 2009 03:30 AM - 04:30 AM EDT (GMT -4)
The ASP.NET servers will be undergoing routine maintenance on Saturday May 16, 2009 03:30 AM - 04:30 AM EDT (GMT -4). You can expect slow to zero response time intermittently at that time.
| | 0 | 14 | 11/11/2009 10:20:10 AM |
ASP.NET Forums maintenance - Tuesday April 28, 2009 08:00 PM EDT (GMT -4)
Tonight the ASP.NET Forums will be undergoing some server maintenance. We expect a period of downtime sometime between 8:00 PM and 12:00 AM EDT (GMT -4). This downtime should not exceed | | 0 | 12 | 11/11/2009 10:20:06 AM |
Site management and development transitioning from Telligent to Neudesic
Hi all, For the last 4 years Microsoft and Telligent have cooperatively worked together on building the popular www.asp.net, | 0 | 16 | 11/11/2009 10:19:58 AM |
Notice: Server Maintenance Friday June 20 8:00 PM EDT - 12:00 AM EDT
The ASP.NET website will be unavailable Friday June 20 from 8:00 PM
EDT to 12:00 AM EDT (currently GMT-4) for some server maintenance. Additionally,
the Silverlight.NET, IIS.NET, and Wind | | 0 | 9 | 11/11/2009 10:19:57 AM |
Site outage - March 6, 2008
Hi all, Yesterday we experienced an unexpected site outage, from approximately 5:30 PM EST to 6:30 PM EST. This was due to an unexpected failure of a power distribution unit in one of | | 0 | 16 | 11/11/2009 10:19:56 AM |
New ASP.NET Web Site Open to Community Review
Five weeks ago we let the community know the details on what happened and next steps towards launching the new ASP.N | | 3 | 201 | 7/19/2007 5:41:43 AM |
Hardware Upgrade and Site Outage, Saturday June 23, 9.00PM – 12:00 AM PDT
With the increasing popularity of the ASP.NET Forums we now have over 300,000 members and over 1,600,000 posts. To handle this growth we need to move to a new and dedicated SQL server. | | 2 | 129 | 7/3/2007 4:50:36 AM |
New and improved search engine
Please check out the new and improved search engine at http://forums.asp.net/es. As always, we're open to any feedback you might have so leave us some comments here on the foru | | 24 | 197 | 6/21/2007 1:46:12 PM |
This morning and the www.asp.net site
| 15 | 126 | 6/20/2007 1:02:27 PM |
Follow up - Details on what happened and next steps
As I promised in a | 1 | 103 | 6/13/2007 9:51:04 PM |
Notice: Hardware Upgrade Tonight 10.00PM PDT
With the popularity of ASP.NET website we are undertaking a range of hardware upgrades to handle the increased traffic. Tonight we will upgrade the RAM on the database server to 12 gigabytes | | 2 | 132 | 6/2/2007 5:48:06 AM |
Web Forums vs. Newsgroups -- together at last...
copied from: http://weblogs.asp.net/RHoward/archive/2005/06/01/409980.aspx
The endless debate: should you use web ba | | 31 | 165 | 4/27/2007 2:21:57 PM |
Having trouble logging in?
We made some changes today to resolve an ongoing issue with logging in to both asp.net and forums.asp.net. As a result, you may not be able to login to the forums because your cookie is invalid. Plea | | 5 | 155 | 3/29/2007 9:44:40 PM |
Slight Correction to Starting Points in the Recognition System
The ASP.NET web site has recently introduced a new Recognition System | | 0 | 122 | 1/9/2007 2:36:10 AM |
Change in moderation policy.....
Over the last 12 months the forums have grown quite a bit and the message volume is as high as it has every been. In that same time period, we've had a lot of feedback around the moderation policies | | 17 | 123 | 12/31/2006 12:46:14 AM |
Site/Forums outage....
There were some issues with one of the backbone providers on the Internet this morning. The issue caused the *.asp.net sites to be inaccessible for most of you for the last few hours. We apologize fo | | 0 | 148 | 4/28/2006 3:38:14 PM |
Maintenance tonight - 3/24/2006
The forums may be unavailable for brief periods of time between 6pm PST and 9pm PST this evening while we push a new build of the forums out to the site.
The new build will contain numerou | | 5 | 136 | 3/27/2006 4:10:32 PM |
Site Upgrade & Forums Reorganization 11/7/2005
There's a lot happening here this Monday (November 7). First, to support the launch of Visual Studio 2005, we're going to roll out a new site design that's been live on | 26 | 151 | 12/14/2005 7:18:27 PM |
Brief forum outage while we upgrade the forums...
There will be a brief forum outage around 11pm EST on Thursday (December 1st) for approximately 2 hours. At that time we will be upgrading the forums in an effort to build a better forum experience f | | 0 | 117 | 11/29/2005 8:57:09 PM |
Site Update - 5/25/2005
Here is summary of the changes:
1) Profile page has been redesigned and is much simpler (new fields include display name, preferred programming language, enable/disable emoticons)
| | 0 | 129 | 5/25/2005 2:19:11 PM |
Site Update: 1/11/2005
Just reposting Brian Goldfarb's post on a different thread. This gives you good insight into what is going on with the site, and the direction it's heading!
There are many great change | | 9 | 127 | 4/11/2005 6:09:44 AM |
4/7/2005 Site Update
We pushed a new build to the server tonight. Not a great deal of changes but there are some key ones:
1) Fixed the email issue so all moderator actions (approve, mov | | 0 | 126 | 4/7/2005 6:47:19 AM |
4/1/2005 - Forums update
No, this isn't an April fools joke - the forums have really been updated.
Here are the changes/updates:
1) Added tooltips to Email, PM, blog, etc. to give | | 0 | 121 | 4/1/2005 4:09:07 PM |
3/30/2005 - Forums update
The following things were included in an update this evening.
General Forum Issues:
- My Forums link is now in main nav (upper right)
- User can
| | 1 | 122 | 3/31/2005 1:36:47 PM |
Forums will be temporarily unavailable this Friday (March 25th)
All,
The forums will be temporarirly unavailable this Friday while we migrate to the new Community Server :: Forums. We are very excited about the improvements that the new forums will | | 1 | 142 | 3/25/2005 7:42:04 PM |
Issues logging in to the site...
We made a few changes last night (2/21) to the forums and it affected the authentication system. As a result, you may have trouble logging into the site. You will need to clear your cookies to resolv | | 6 | 151 | 3/8/2005 2:27:14 AM |