{"id":9492,"date":"2019-04-21T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=9492"},"modified":"2019-07-04T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T07:43:06","slug":"microsoft-restores-deleted-technet-and-msdn-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/04\/21\/microsoft-restores-deleted-technet-and-msdn-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft restores deleted Technet- and MSDN-Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German<\/a>]After massive protests, Microsoft seems to be rethinking and trying to restore the blog posts that were deleted on Technet and MSDN during the hiring of employee blogs.<\/p>\n

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What is it about?<\/h2>\n

Microsoft recently started a kind of major cleanup of its web content. The old employee blogs in Technet (and MSDN) were deleted. These were often used by employees to explain a new technology and communicate with developers. With the deletion action, 15 years of employee knowledge buried within those blog posts were lost. At the same time, many older KB articles were also deleted.<\/p>\n

I notice this because the links from my blog posts to these Microsoft pages break. Since a plugin in the blogs continuously checks all links for validity, this is indicated to me with some delay. I recently had reported this within my German blog in a post titles Das Internet vergisst nichts? Von wegen! Microsofts-Aufr\u00e4umarbeiten<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Deleting the blog content is one thing. But I noticed another thing. Most of the time, deleted websites are found as copies in the Wayback machine. I can then redirect the links in the plugin to the archived pages in the Wayback machine. Broken links on Microsoft pages of the Technet and MSDN blogs were often not copied in the Wayback machine. This indicates to me that Microsoft has used robots.txt or other methods to make the deleted articles disappear from web archives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Microsoft rethink that after protests<\/h2>\n

After the cleanup action, when the 'community' noticed this, there were probably massive protests of the customers and also of the employees. Because an enormous knowledge of the former employees, which was stored in the blog posts, was simply lost. And the Microsoft blogs are not replicated anywhere else. In addition, there was often a lot of knowledge in the comments on these articles. The cleanup action was – in my eyes – simply stupid of the Microsoft decision-makers.<\/p>\n

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Thank you for your patience, we have now re-activated thousands of MSDN and TechNet blogs while we continue to work on the longer-term blog archive.<\/p>\n

\u2014 MSDN Services Status (@MSDNService) 16. April 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n