Hi Jan,

go for that.

HTH, jens Suessmeyer.

hi Jan,
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http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/default.aspx?forumgroupid=19&siteid=1
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Hi Jan,

I expect MS to open some new groups for the new features of SQL Server
2005 in the weeks to come; until they do, just pick the group that suits
the question best.

SQLExpress questions are fine here. They can also be posted in .server
or .programming.

Best, Hugo
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hi Jan,
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Hugo already answered... Microsoft is quiet deprecating NG in favour of it's
own forum, but I do think they will add new SQL Server 2005 ng as well...
I've heard something about SQLExpress ng name, as someone suggested not to
name it "Express" in order to avoid user's confusion about "Express answers"
ROTFL

just a side note... I'd post SQLExpress questions on non MSDE ngs as it seem
Microsoft employees do not attend this one very much, so Setup problems and
the like are not very much probably answered..

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and where are mine? :D
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DbaMgr2k ver 0.15.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.60.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
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Hi Andrea,

Do you have any idea why they are doing that?

Until recently, the Microsoft community pages hosted a portal to the
various microsoft newsgroups. When I clicked the link in your message, I
was quite surprised to see a new (?) forum, totally unrelated to the
newsgroups.

For me personally, it would be a shame if the newsgroupw were abandoned
in favor of a web forum. With Agent (the tool of my choice), Outlook, or
may other NNTP enabled software, it's very easy to follow discussions in
usenet groups. I can easily skip threads about subjects that are of no
interest to me, keep messages that require some research or testing on
hold until I have the time to reply to them, re-read older messages, and
type and post answers when I have time. I am convinced that I'd never be
able to post anywhere near the amount of answers I currently do if I
can't use Agent or a similar tool to access the groups.

If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, can you please confirm or deny
what Andrea wrote? And if it's true, can you explain your reasons for
this move?

Inquiring mind wants to know.....

Best, Hugo
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hi Hugo,
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actually not... I think I've heard it at SQL Server MVPs summit in Dallas,
but I was not paying attention a lot due to alcoolic distractions (:D) ...
they told us that they are increasing Forums support and NNTP flavours will
not be dropped in the next future, and lot of MVPs were very glad to hear
about these new forum where only part of them were disappointed about this
NNTP deprecate status (me first of all :D)

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hope they will answer "Andrea is totally wrong, we'll never do it and will
increase NNTP flavours.." :D

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ROTFL
:D
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Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtm http://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.15.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.60.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
--------- remove DMO to reply