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> The Xbox Live service and Xbox.com will be down for scheduled maintenance
> starting at midnight, Tuesday, October 17, 2006, for up to 24 hours. Full
> details are here:
> http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community...12-downtime.htm
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
>

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> any updates on eta on live being back up and running? or no-one knows and
> it will be up and running when its up and running.....?
>
>
>
> "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ehZysMt7GHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
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> "Up to 24 hours" of down time, Adam. This is a heavy duty maintenance of
> the servers, among other things. See Major Nelson's post:
> http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community...12-downtime.htm
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
> "Adam" <nospam@foryou.com> wrote in message
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> Is it normal that during this outage of service, the Extender element of
> the Xbox doesn't work?
>
> Dave
>
> "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Up to 24 hours" of down time, Adam. This is a heavy duty maintenance of
> the servers, among other things. See Major Nelson's post:
> http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community...12-downtime.htm
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
> "Adam" <nospam@foryou.com> wrote in message
> news:O$09nBe8GHA.4740@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
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> "Up to 24 hours" of down time, Adam. This is a heavy duty maintenance of
> the servers, among other things. See Major Nelson's post:
> http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community...12-downtime.htm

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> Your extender using Media Connect or a Media Center Edition computer,
> should continue working. It does here, just fine.
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
> "dt" <thursby_david@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Chris H. wrote:
>
> Oct 18th 2am... Still down :-)
> And no way to get an ETA, since all URLs are on xbox.com which is down...
>
> Also, the XBOX dashboard should clearly better indicate that the Live
> service is down for maintenance... You have to go and test network
> connection, see that "MTU test" fails, and then click on the "More info"
> button to see that it is because of a schedule maintenance...! How many
> support desk calls you could have avoided by showing a clear front page
> message...?? My 2 cents.
>
> -Joel Armengaud

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> Looks like its back up again.
>
> "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23VzHayi8GHA.4996@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
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> Your extender using Media Connect or a Media Center Edition computer,
> should continue working. It does here, just fine.
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
> "dt" <thursby_david@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Xbox (or Xbox 360) should work just fine, whether you're connected to Xbox
> Live or not, Kevin. The relationship of the connection between the
> extender and Windows Media Connect or a Media Center Edition PC lives on
> your Local Area Network, not outside the LAN itself.
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
> "Kevin John Panzke" <kevpan815@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23ikBVWr8GHA.4408@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
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>I was talking about the XBOX Live Service (it was temporarily back up again
>at around 6:00 A.M. PDT).
>
> "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Nb7jor8GHA.4224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
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> My mediacentre is a Vista RC1 box & my Xbox 360 as an extender works fine
> normally. But because the MS Xbox Live website is down, I can't log in to
> it & I was advised I need to be logged in to Xbox live to run this Game.
> Any ideas?
> dt
> "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> If you're talking about one of the games for the Xbox 360, then, yes, we
> need to wait for Xbox Live to come back online. The online gaming has
> nothing to do with the Media Center Edition/extender relationship. That's
> within your own LAN.
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
> "dt" <thursby_david@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Chris, I know what you mean but trust me, it will not let me use the XB360
> as an extender because I cannot login to Xbox live as a user. Its says ,
> onscreen that I need to test my network connections. When I test it all
> is confirmed except XboxLive which fails. The reference to a "game" is
> that the screen failure message refers to a game even though I am
> connecting to Mediacenter.
>
> I will put a pound to a penny that it will work when XboxLive comes back
> online.
>
> Also, Xbox.com website mentions nothing anywhere about XboxLive being down
> which is pretty poor.
>
> dt
>
> "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Chris, I know what you mean but trust me, it will not let me use the XB360
> as an extender because I cannot login to Xbox live as a user. Its says ,
> onscreen that I need to test my network connections. When I test it all
> is confirmed except XboxLive which fails. The reference to a "game" is
> that the screen failure message refers to a game even though I am
> connecting to Mediacenter.
>
> I will put a pound to a penny that it will work when XboxLive comes back
> online.
>
> Also, Xbox.com website mentions nothing anywhere about XboxLive being down
> which is pretty poor.
>
> dt
>
> "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e3fFfBs8GHA.3736@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
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> Oh, yes, I forgot. As Kevin mentioned, the Vista beta requires it. I'm
> running MCE 2005 currently, and didn't move over to the other partition.
> 8-) I provided a link previously - obviously down with the site - but
> when you go to xbox.com there is a message in numerous languages saying
> the site and Live are/were down for maintenance. Seems to be partially up
> now, and more coming up all the time as the servers sync I suppose.
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
> "dt" <thursby_david@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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