So what happened?

posted by  varson (7)  13 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Now that we have had time to dive into the details more on what happened that caused the temporary problems last weekend, I want to share what we found so far. We still have more work to do, but we now understand what occurred and why. We've also implemented several changes to prevent this kind of thing from happening again.

What exactly happened?

Two key things happened. First, activations and validations were both affected when preproduction code was accidentally sent to production servers. Second, while the issue affecting activations was fixed in less than thirty