Forum Updates: Possible down time.
I do not have a date as of yet but every time there is forum updated, our forums go down and/or haveother major issues during that period.
Just giving everyone a heads up!
Answers
- Looks like it's being schedule for this Wednesday (6/20/2007).
- The times and quotes were noted to be fixed. Sometimes they hold off on certain fixes for later releases. They are having a lot of problems with the update.
SP4 is set to be released to the forums on Wednesday 7/25/2007.
There could be a lot of down time. Please be patient, should be a nice patch!
- Forums maybe down today for a few hours. SP4 rolls out around 1PM.
I've notice a few things not posted here... but this is the list I was sent.
Type of Change or Update
This release includes:
Replacing the Rich Text Editor
Upgrading Passport to PAL 4.5
Adding local time for each thread:
· Providing method for choosing local time display
RSS improvements:
· Sorting all posts by date in RSS feeds
· Moving the RSS icon with a text link to the top of the page
· Displaying local time for posts in RSS
· Adding RSS to each thread
· Providing all replies information in RSS feed of the list of threads
Filtering and Sorting improvements and fixes:
· Enabling the "Hide Topics I've read" filter for “My thread” page and show forum page
· Fixing the "next" page button for filtered search results
· Fixing the page number links in a multi-page thread
· Persisting filtered results when a page link is clicked
· Adding "View by attribute" filter in My Threads
· Fixing post order for the filter "last post date"
· Adding "No Activity" filter to View By Attribute
· Returning results for Show All value for Date Filter when Display Order = Ascending
· Adding "first post date" to sort
· Correcting post order display in threads
Security improvements and fixes:
· Fixing security issue caused by CSS overriding
· Verifying DisplayName for banned words
· Preventing IIS crashes when one of the read/search SQL systems becomes unavailable
· Enforcing banned words in edited posts
· Removing forums permissions references that exist without a matching forum
· Preventing HTML editing that can destroy layout of post
· Preventing unknown failure for non-moderators unanswered search page shows moderator forum posts
· Enforcing maximum user input on text fields
· Search
· Fixing unknown error when attempting to use "next" link on search results page for a specific user
· Enforcing two character minimum for search input
· Fixing Member and Roles Advanced Search for Moderators
· Enabling upper ASCII characters in query string
Display and layout fixes:
· Correcting the display of a Japanese user name in a Deleted post
· Correcting the oversized split post page on Czech site
· Fixing year display in user profile for es, fr, it and br sites
· Maintaining the Thread Starter and Started Date for multi-page threads
· Fixing thread title truncation when title contains double quotes
· Changing the post image to unanswered when an deleted answered post is marked as unanswered
· Preventing the Top five most viewed answer list from getting stale
Misc. items:
· Deleting unsent Alerts with “malformed packet” error to prevent clogging up the db
· Fixing helpful post tracking data
· Fixing updating user vote on a post
· Removing useless debugging code to improve performance
· Preventing announcement from becoming a regular post when a moderator replies
· Enabling thread moving in traditional Chinese forums
· Adding a MVP badge below a moderator's name
· Removing escaped character code showing up in Forums dropdown
· Enabling announcement posts to be locked
All Replies
- Looks like it's being schedule for this Wednesday (6/20/2007).
- Thanks...I'll try to schedule my whining around the outage...
Joel Burt wrote: Looks like it's being schedule for this Wednesday (6/20/2007). Do you know what time window is planned?
Gordon
- Sorry, I don't get to know that much. It's a pretty big process cause they update all the forums at Microsoft. The process could go for a week like the last Service Pack they applied. When they give me more information, I will fill everyone in.
- Update: Scheduled for Thursday 6/21/2007
- Looks like the update is being delayed. I do not have a date but it will not be Thursday.
I just got this in e-mail...
"
Hello everyone,
Due to complications with Forums dependencies, it has become necessary to delay the long promised Service Pack 4. While the teams are working diligently to resolve the issues, SP4 may not be deployed for a few weeks yet. Among other fixes, this SP will address two issues that many users are encountering, Alerts sign-up page not found and problems signing in. Please see below for instructions to help you work around these in the meantime. The Forums team is sorry for the delay and as always appreciates your patience. As always, please continue to use http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=53&SiteID=1 to report any additional issues.
Alerts sign-up page not found
Issue: When a user posts with the Alert Me checkbox checked (which is checked by default), they are redirected to the Alerts sign-up page which 404s.
Workaround: uncheck the Alert Me checkbox before posting. If you still wish to receive Alerts on the thread, try using the Alert Me button at the top of the thread instead.
Problems signing in to Forums
Issue: User clicks Sign In and is redirected to persona.aspx which 404s.
Workaround: there are a couple workarounds to this
- Hit your browser’s Back button until you are on the Forums page where you started the sign in process.
- Click the Refresh button
- You should now see the Welcome message indicating that you are signed in
-OR-
- Delete your cache and cookies
- Close/open your browser
- Sign-in to Forums as normal. Note that this also should clear any sign-out problems. "
- Hi Joel,
Today the forum problem the worst I see, I face error popup about the the page address been change, that happened every now and then.
Also as well, page did not found issue. I think I made double posts in some topic from that problem.
I clear the cache and everything else, that only solved the login/out problem, but not this one.
My best. - There are many issues with the forums currently. I will work with Joel tomorrow to get these issues escalated.
Tom Ziegmann (MS) wrote: There are many issues with the forums currently. I will work with Joel tomorrow to get these issues escalated.
Will there be any new features, like ignore, and will quoted replies still go out of order, in thread order rather than by time/date?- The times and quotes were noted to be fixed. Sometimes they hold off on certain fixes for later releases. They are having a lot of problems with the update.
SP4 is set to be released to the forums on Wednesday 7/25/2007.
There could be a lot of down time. Please be patient, should be a nice patch!
- Forums maybe down today for a few hours. SP4 rolls out around 1PM.
Joel Burt wrote: Forums maybe down today for a few hours. SP4 rolls out around 1PM. I noticed a few minutes of downtime but not hours. How do we know when it's done and what's new? *shrug*
I've notice a few things not posted here... but this is the list I was sent.
Type of Change or Update
This release includes:
Replacing the Rich Text Editor
Upgrading Passport to PAL 4.5
Adding local time for each thread:
· Providing method for choosing local time display
RSS improvements:
· Sorting all posts by date in RSS feeds
· Moving the RSS icon with a text link to the top of the page
· Displaying local time for posts in RSS
· Adding RSS to each thread
· Providing all replies information in RSS feed of the list of threads
Filtering and Sorting improvements and fixes:
· Enabling the "Hide Topics I've read" filter for “My thread” page and show forum page
· Fixing the "next" page button for filtered search results
· Fixing the page number links in a multi-page thread
· Persisting filtered results when a page link is clicked
· Adding "View by attribute" filter in My Threads
· Fixing post order for the filter "last post date"
· Adding "No Activity" filter to View By Attribute
· Returning results for Show All value for Date Filter when Display Order = Ascending
· Adding "first post date" to sort
· Correcting post order display in threads
Security improvements and fixes:
· Fixing security issue caused by CSS overriding
· Verifying DisplayName for banned words
· Preventing IIS crashes when one of the read/search SQL systems becomes unavailable
· Enforcing banned words in edited posts
· Removing forums permissions references that exist without a matching forum
· Preventing HTML editing that can destroy layout of post
· Preventing unknown failure for non-moderators unanswered search page shows moderator forum posts
· Enforcing maximum user input on text fields
· Search
· Fixing unknown error when attempting to use "next" link on search results page for a specific user
· Enforcing two character minimum for search input
· Fixing Member and Roles Advanced Search for Moderators
· Enabling upper ASCII characters in query string
Display and layout fixes:
· Correcting the display of a Japanese user name in a Deleted post
· Correcting the oversized split post page on Czech site
· Fixing year display in user profile for es, fr, it and br sites
· Maintaining the Thread Starter and Started Date for multi-page threads
· Fixing thread title truncation when title contains double quotes
· Changing the post image to unanswered when an deleted answered post is marked as unanswered
· Preventing the Top five most viewed answer list from getting stale
Misc. items:
· Deleting unsent Alerts with “malformed packet” error to prevent clogging up the db
· Fixing helpful post tracking data
· Fixing updating user vote on a post
· Removing useless debugging code to improve performance
· Preventing announcement from becoming a regular post when a moderator replies
· Enabling thread moving in traditional Chinese forums
· Adding a MVP badge below a moderator's name
· Removing escaped character code showing up in Forums dropdown
· Enabling announcement posts to be locked
