Yes well perhaps, however as Don noted it is equally likely that the forum was abolished to avoid embarrassment at the steady barrage of ‘it doesn’t work’ postings. Certainly an email support system could have supplemented the public newsgroup for those who needed to post sensitive information.
The benefit of a public forum is that (obviously) the information posted there is shared with the community of interested users. Given that many of the posts to the beta group were of the ‘I cannot get it to work’ variety, this product as it currently is needs all the support it can get, and scrapping a public forum seems basically wrong-headed.
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From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Johan Marien [MSFT]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:15 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re:[ntdev] Help required for DTM tests
xxxxx@microsoft.com is the correct alias for all your DTM troubles. The
newsgroup was done away with as it has the potential risk that
vendors/partners posting questions on a public forum may
inadvertently/unwillingly contain some form of their IP. In order to protect
all parties involved, MSFT opted to replace the newsgroup with an email
alias instead.
“Roddy, Mark” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
It certainly could not have been the volume of posts in the beta newsgroup
that was causing them problems.
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From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Don Burn
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:16 AM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re:[ntdev] Help required for DTM tests
Well I just saw a pointer to this announcement:
The DTM beta newsgroup has been removed. Please send all beta DTM related
questions to xxxxx@microsoft.com. No DTM issues will be handled on the
general newsgroup.
I guess they were embarassed by all the users who said they could not get it
to work. Having an email feedback versus a group is a standard way in some
firms to allow them to indicate the particular user is stupid, without the
users catching on that everyone is having the problem. It is interesting
the promised public newgroup
microsoft.public.windows.hardware_and_drivers.logotesting.dtm does not seem
to be in place either.
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“Roddy, Mark” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
Yeah they fixed all the bugs after all. Works fine. No problems.
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From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Don Burn
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 8:22 AM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re:[ntdev] Help required for DTM tests
Well I was about to point you to the DTM beta newsgroup, but it appears to
have been removed by Microsoft. I would try the
microsoft.public.windowsxp.winlogo news group to ask specifics of tests.
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“Harsha HS” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> HI ALL
>
> I have installed DTM controller and DTM studio on a PC with Win 2003
> server .
> Here our cient is a WIndows vista(5384) PC with APO(Audio processing
> object for system effects ie SYSFX) installed on it.We tried to run the
> SYSFX UI test on the APO.
> While running the this test the server tries to copy script files from
> server to client and executes those script files from the client on the
> APO.After executing it should generate a .xml log file.But its failing
> here to generate that logfile.
> That means script execution is failing.
>
> Can anybody in this group help us in analyzing DTM test errors?
>
> I have done other tests also , most of the time “Runjob” will fail.
>
> Thanks and regards
> -Harsha
>
>
>
> “Lyndon J. Clarke” wrote: Hey Tony, You must
> be getting jaded 
I always enjoy a good guessing game!
> I’m having heaps of fun with RC1 WDK, SDK, and O/S!! Cheers, Lyndon
>
> “Tony Mason” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> Given my experiences over the past 10 days trying to get one of our
> toolkits to build in the WDK RC1 environment (headers that declare
> functions differently than previous kits, functions that are now
> deprecated (downlevel) in the WDK that were not previously deprecated,
> missing declarations, and functions that are exported but not in the
> distributed LIB file have made this a singularly unpleasant experience)
> I don’t think I want it on my desktop either.
>
> Tony
>
> Tony Mason
> Consulting Partner
> OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
> http://www.osr.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Don Burn
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 3:17 PM
> To: ntdev redirect
> Subject: Re:[ntdev] DTM
>
> Considering the experience that everyone I know of has had with DTM, you
> do
> not want it on your desktop. The only people who seem to get it to
> work,
> have a seperate computer running Server 2003 SP1 that runs the DTM
> controller and console, and a test machine. This is of course besides
> the
> development system.
>
>
> –
> Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
> Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
> http://www.windrvr.com
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>
> “Tony Mason” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> MSDE is not supported on Windows Vista. Thus DTM, which requires MSDE,
> won’t work. To confirm, check http://www.microsoft.com/sql - I just
> noticed this restriction while downloading the SQL 2005 SP1 distribution
> and thought it was ironic, since I’d never imagine that to install the
> full WDK environment I required a server platform release on my desktop
> system.
>
> Tony
>
> Tony Mason
> Consulting Partner
> OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
> http://www.osr.com
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