http://blogs.technet.com/sysinternals/archive/2006/10/30/sysinternals-site-migration.aspx
Hi, my name is Otto Helweg and I’m very excited to help lead the
Sysinternals community migration as well as help define a plan for
Sysinternals growth going forward. I’m a Program Manager in the Windows
Server and Tools division but my background is heavy IT-Pro (not too
much dev) and I look forward to interfacing with the Sysinternals users.
Mark has been super helpful in guiding our planning for this migration
and will continue to be involved in the post migrated site and ongoing
development of its content.
Our goal is to smoothly migrate the major Sysinternals site components
to Microsoft services and keep the same level of service the community
received pre-acquisition. Here’s how the components are going to match up:
*Original Sysinternals Site*
*Microsoft Service*
Mark’s Blog
TechNet Blog - Mark
Yahoo Groups Newsletter
TechNet Blog – Sysinternals
Web Site
TechNet TechCenter
Downloads
Microsoft.Com Downloads
Forum
TechNet Forum
Source Code
Not being migrated.
Once the Sysinternals site has been completely migrated and stabilized,
we’re going to begin to implement plans on growing this community. What
does that mean? Well, we’ve just starting thinking about this but we do
know that Sysinternals has been very successful in reaching their
customer base with free tools and utilities that assist in Windows
troubleshooting. We would like to see if we could leverage this model
across other parts of Microsoft as well. Look for more details after the
first of the year.
Let me highlight the Sysinternals site components that will change –
just so there are no surprises.
*Mark’s Blog*: We will move Mark’s blog over to TechNet blogs. He will
continue to post on the same topics as before (as time permits I’m
sure). We will work on getting his blog history moved over as well
(although we’re still trying to determine the feasibility of migrating
the blog comments). His new blog is:
http://blogs.technet.com/MarkRussinovich
*Newsletter*: Going forward, we will be publishing the newsletter in the
form of a blog. We feel a blog would be better since it can still be
syndicated (trough RSS or ATOM) and it allows for folks to comment. This
blog content will be primarily focused on site changes and updates
during and post migration. The site blog is:
http://blogs.technet.com/sysinternals
*Web Site*: Starting out we are going to be creating a TechCenter on the
TechNet site dedicated to Sysinternals and containing the main
Sysinternals pages. If we miss migrating important sections of the
original Sysinternals site, we will migrate those after the fact as
demand surfaces. We will initially maintain a site support e-mail
address ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) to
address initial site issues.
*Downloads*: We will be migrating most Sysinternals tools to
Microsoft.Com Downloads which has additional bandwidth for a better
end-user experience. At Mark’s direction, we are not going to be
migrating 100% of the tools for one of the following reasons:
1. It only worked on Win9x or DOS – the number of downloads didn’t
justify the migration. These were eventually going to be removed from
Sysinternals anyway.
2. Not compatible with XP or Vista – or had compatibility issues with
other 3^rd party applications and were slated for removal pre-acquisition.
3. Demo tools – some tools were posted as demos that were paired with
Mark’s articles. We are still trying to determine where these will land.
If you want a tool back, let us know and we'll let community demand help
drive our priorities.
We have also changed the Licensing Terms and made it ‘click-through’.
The Licensing Terms are actually more liberal and are intended to allow
the tools to be used in more situations without a custom license.
*Forum*: The Forum will be the last site component to migrate due to its
complexity. The new TechNet Forum for Sysinternals will essentially have
the same structure. In addition, the moderators have agreed to keep
their roles as moderators in TechNet as well! We are going to try to
migrate all the Forums history, but we know that data quality will
suffer to some degree (e.g. reference links within replies may be
broken). In addition we won’t be able to migrate Forum accounts, so
participants will need to re-register with TechNet.
*Source Code*: The number of source code downloads didn’t justify the
migration, support, and possible integration problems it might cause
with other Windows components down the road.
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