Managing Subscription Media and Other Items

Managing Your Subscription Media

Here’s a topic that never seems to go out of style. We periodically receive inquiries from subscribers on managing subscription media. Depending on your language pack preferences, 12 shipments per year can place a toll on even our best-organized subscribers. While a wide variety of solutions exist, the MSDN Index that ships each month with your subscription media includes a Microsoft Access database with all disc title and product information included to assist you with running your own reports. In addition, many subscribers have found the Disc Stakka to be an ideal solution for managing and tracking their MSDN Subscription media. For more information, please visit https://msdn.imation.com.

Please send me a few of the creative ways you manage MSDN Subscription media, and I’ll pull together some of the more intriguing ideas for a future post.

Windows Vista build 5365

We've received several inquiries on the status of Windows Vista build 5365 and when it might be added to MSDN Subscriptions. As indicated by several press accounts, build 5365 is only being released to the TAP, Beta Program and Partners. Build 5365 is not a CTP or IDW build and will not be released to MSDN.

We expect to receive Windows Vista Beta 2 later this spring and will make it available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads as soon as possible.

New Managed Forums Benefit

MSDN Subscribers in North America are invited to participate in a pilot managed forums benefit. This benefit provides that questions posted by MSDN Subscribers in select forums are guaranteed a response from Microsoft within 48 hours. The selected forums include Visual C# General, Visual Basic General, Windows Forms General, and Visual Studio General and have been selected based on current MSDN subscriber traffic.

Access the Managed Forums pilot through the MSDN Subscriber Downloads Sign In located above.

Need Microsoft Press Books?

Through June 15, 2006 only, Microsoft is partnering with Quantum Books to bring MSDN Subscribers a special offer on select Microsoft Press titles.

For more details, Sign In above and click “Subscriber Downloads and Product Keys” to view the offer.

Best regards,

Seth Adams

Program Manager, MSDN Subscriptions