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All functions should be working correctly. Please report any problems you see in VMware Communities Feedback. Thanks!

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VMware Communities will undergo a maintenance upgrade on Saturday, August 23, 7am - 3pm Pacific.

Maintenance Window Timeline:
During approximately 1-2 hours of the maintenance window, VMware Communities will not be available. During the rest of the maintenance window, all VMware Communities functions will be available except for login. Visitors who need to post to the site during the maintenance window should make sure they have logged in before 7am Pacific. Visitors who post during the maintenance window should save their postings before submitting them, since the site may go down without warning during the maintenance window. For safety, visitors are recommended only to view content on VMware Communities during the maintenance window.

Site Changes:
The following changes will be made to VMware Communities as part of this maintenance upgrade:

  1. The user interface will be streamlined to improve site usability by reducing clutter and fixing some user interface issues identified by users. Details of these changes are documented in VMware Communities Proposed Homepage Design.
  2. Improved error message text for the login / authentication process.
  3. Additional fixes to other VMware Web site and online store infrastructure that is not related to VMware Communities.
I will post again here when the maintenance upgrade is complete.

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You probably know that if you put a watch on a thread (i.e. click "receive email notifications"), you'll get an email notification anytime the thread is updated. Same goes for entire communities as well. But did you know that you can simply reply to any of those emails and your email reply will get posted as a thread reply on VMware Communities? It's pretty slick -- if you haven't used this feature, give it a try!

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New VMworld 2008 Community

Posted by RDellimmagine VMware Moderator Aug 12, 2008

Find out who's going to VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas and start networking with them online before the show.

Announce your plans for the show at http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/general/vmworld2008.

And for more information on VMworld, check out:
~ the official VMworld Web site
~ the VMworld.com community site

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On August 6, I reported the following:

Recently a number of people reported seeing thread not found errors, day-old threads shown on community listing pages, and other similar errors. I believe we've found the root cause of the problem, which is related to some performance optimizations we made that had unexpected side effects. We are updating the configuration this week to eliminate those side effects, and I'll post again when they are in place.
We made a configuration change that I believe will eliminate those issues. However, if you see any System Error: Thread not Found or day-old content on community home pages when logged in, please contact me, RDellimmagine, via private message.

I know these two issues created problems for many of you, and I thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve them.

Regards, Robert

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Recently a number of people reported seeing thread not found errors, day-old threads shown on community listing pages, and other similar errors. I believe we've found the root cause of the problem, which is related to some performance optimizations we made that had unexpected side effects. We are updating the configuration this week to eliminate those side effects, and I'll post again when they are in place. Thanks for your continued patience.

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