Microsoft Closed

[Malcolm]

Web reports are saying that Microsoft's license website has hardly been working the last few days and customers are reporting license issues. This site is said to have had plenty of problems in the past.

At present https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter says:

"The VLSC site is currently down for maintenance.

まことに申し訳ありませんが、VLSCサイトは現在メンテナンスの為、一時的にご使用できません。ご了承く ださい。

Die VLSC Seite ist derzeit wegen Wartungsarbeiten nicht verfügbar.

El Centro de servicios de licencias por volumen (VLSC) se encuentra fuera de servicio por motivos de mantenimiento.

Le site VLSC est indisponible pour cause de maintenance."

Slashdot reports:Microsoft eOpen Site Down For Nearly a Week

"Since Monday Dec. 7, the Microsoft eOpen license website has been mostly 'Down for Maintenance.' When we do not see this message, we still do not see most of the normal functionality. As this is Microsoft's main channel for managing and installing licenses for products such as Server, and for open license products for business, this makes the company effectively 'closed for business!' Attempts to connect to https://eopen.microsoft.com/ are redirected (after a bad certificate warning) to https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/...intenance.html. For those who wish to activate Microsoft Business Solutions software need to obtain Software Registration keys, and these also can not be obtained, as the site http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSol...BSRegistration does not resolve; instead one gets a Microsoft Search page. Telephone calls to their support numbers for the licensing program yield either busy signals, or a message saying one should 'call back later.'"

[tam]

I got an email from them on the 27th saying they were doing improvements:

Dear Microsoft Volume Licensing Customer,

On December 6, 2009, we will update the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) (https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/...nter/home.aspx) to make it easier for you to manage your Volume Licensing products, agreement benefits and subscriptions on a central and convenient online site.

The improvements to the VLSC will provide a single, integrated portal for managing all Volume Licensing ID's, including but not limited to Enterprise Agreement, Select License, Open and Open Value.

The changes you will see after December 6 include:
eOpen and MVLS licensing management sites will be retired, with automatic re-directs in place to VLSC.
All user accounts and registered Licensing IDs will be migrated seamlessly.
The updated VLSC will feature a simplified registration process.
For Open customers, a new user interface will consolidate the Terms & Conditions into a two-click process.
Improved management capabilities designed to provide an Administrator with greater control.

What does this mean for you, the Microsoft Volume Licensing customer? Your license experience is enriched with information aggregated and easier to manage. Product downloads and product keys are accessible, administrators are empowered with more flexibility and uptime is improved.

In addition, the updated VLSC site will be available to you in 24 languages: Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, French (Canada), German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), and Swedish.

We invite you to visit Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) after December 6 to learn more and get started!

Sincerely,

Guess it didn't go to plan then!

[jabb0]

Man if the title and the title-alone held true...
BEST CRIMBO PRESENT EVER! :eek:

[Malcolm]

Microsoft need some decent Linux hosting

[Trev]

I'm sure for a small consideration Colin could very quickly set them up with a LAMP server to get them up and running.