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**Complete ** Planned Maintenance : Aug 20th, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Pacific

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Allen
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Aug 19, 2024

Dear Community Members,

 

As part of our ongoing commitment to maintaining industry-leading security best practices, we are implementing some changes to the Microsoft Tech Community. Our primary goal is to ensure that your experience remains secure, seamless, and reliable. The changes are scheduled to take place on Tuesday, Aug 20th, 2024, from 4:00pm to 5:00pm (Pacific Time).

 

Most members should not notice any difference during this transition, however, there is a small possibility that users whose sessions expire while the change is being made might experience an issue logging in, as may users logging in for the first time that day.

 

Affected users may find that when they attempt to sign in, they are redirected back to the community homepage and instead of seeing their avatar and name at the top right corner, it will simply display "Sign in."

 

We understand that this might be frustrating, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we will provide an update once the migration is fully complete to keep you informed.

 

We would ask you not to contact our team regarding any issues with login during the maintenance window. If you have issues after the work is completed, please try clearing your cache and logging in again. if you have tried this and it still has not worked then please do contact our team.

 

Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

 

Best regards,

Updated Aug 21, 2024
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    Allen
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    ** Update: The maintenance is now complete and we are conducting a rolling restart of our services, this may take a maximum of 30 minutes. If you are having issues logging in please keep trying, we are already seeing the login service recovering. 

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    Allen
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    The restart is complete and all systems are responding normally.

     

    Thank you all for your patience.

  • A1-A1 , nope, I see no, at least significant, changes in performance. Discussions in hubs are were quite fast before. Profile and Private messages still slow, but I open them once per few months, thus don't care.

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    A1-A1
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    Yes, significant changes are the future, hopefully as early as September 2024!