Planned downtime for .NET Messenger Service

[R-Style]

MSN Germany, MSN France and MSN Belgium are informing their visitors of a planned downtime of the .NET Messenger Service. Because of necessary maintenance, you won't be able to sign in to MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger and Web Messenger on:

Saturday, October 30th, from 5 AM until 9 AM CET.

This is Central European Time and we presume that this maintenance only affects European users of the .NET Messenger Service. But just in case, that time period corresponds to:

- Friday, 10 PM - Saturday, 2 AM CST (US Central Time);

- Friday, 8 PM - Saturday, Midnight PST (US Pacific Time);

- Friday, 11 PM - Saturday, 3 AM EST (Eastern Europe Time).

Source: Mess.be

[KitCh]

Thanks for the heads up (Y)

[matt74441]

So even with the heads up, how many threads should we expect to see over in GD about it?

[R-Style]

Earlier today we reported about the planned downtime of the .NET Messenger Services tomorrow (Saturday, 30th of October) between 5 and 9 o' clock in the morning (Central European Time). We have just got word Messenger users from The Netherlands, Spain, Finland and Italy will be included in this maintenance task as well, confirming more and more our basic assumption that this will be a general (European) downtime of 4 hours.

Scheduled .NET Messenger Service Downtime:

Sat. 30th of Oct. 2004 between 5-9 AM CET [6-10 AM for Finland].

or Fri. 29th between 8 PM-Midnight PST.

Confirmed for (UPDATED):

France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Italy and The Netherlands. Added: Spain.

UPDATE: MSN wishes to apologize for any inconvenience caused by the unavailability of their services in several countries. They would also like to add there's a possibility that these operations exceed the suggested ending time up to one hour (or even more).

Source: Mess.be

[Ferret]

/me sticks his middle finger in the air :p

We UK'ers ain't affected :D

[Dessimat0r]

How come ICQ never goes down, eh?

[timsweb]

yey, UK will be ok, :D

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

thats over night... MEH lol

[Dean W]

ICQ Doesnt go down because its not as Popular, lol

[sundayx Veteran]

im in canada and i got this. arghh

[Favvi]

im in canada and i got this. arghh

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me too, they need to stop :angry:

[altezza Veteran]

I got that message too.

[JorgeIvan]

me too here :(

[MonkeyClaw Veteran]

yep i gots it too, pain in the ass if u ask me but oh well, lol

[Norante]

It?s not working right now.

[Vice]

I got the msg too - UK.

Said it was going down in 15 mins and I should end all conversations. And as the msg said in 15 mins it went off.

[Silverity]

I went offline too...

[duphus]

Saying it will only be in EU countries is just stupid, if it's down for one country it will be down for the next. Those countries just happen to report it.

[Lexcyn]

Bah, I was right in the middle of a chat, then BAM. Oh well, time for yahoo messenger lol.

[Righty]

Its down here in Australia :(

[Liquid]

They should have back-up servers :/

[lieb39]

Its down here in Australia :(

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Yep. Sucks. I wish they made these downtimes better for us Australians, like in the middle of the night for us.

-lieb39

[DigitalN.]

well, I was wondering what was up with MSN :)

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

Everyone I know here in Ontario is down including myself ;) Looks like Canada was part of this. Grrr.. lol

[YaKaLeDo]

The .NET Messenger Service is undergoing routine maintenance. The service may be unavailable. Please try again later.[

it's down in the US too!