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FAQ :: What do you mean by "HOT" KB? How do you define the "top" 25? Hits?
Every time a knowledge base article is viewed, and counted as a hit. The top 25 are the most popular article viewed in a technolgy for the last seven days.
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| 9/1/2006 |
Why do I get two kbAlertz.com E-Mails?
About once a week, I get a complaining e-mail from a user that states "Stop sending me two E-mails" or "Stop wasting my bandwidth" or sometimes they are friendlier and say "Just to let you know ....."
At any rate, these all have the same question/comment. People get two e-mails in their inbox, and it would be natural to think that we sent them two e-mails.
I personally wrote the program that sends out our hundreds of thousands of e-mails. I've make a lot of mistakes, don't get me (... more)
| 7/19/2005 |
Search by KB Article Id
A feature I can't believe you haven't implemented already is the
ability to be able to type in a KB number to go directly to that KB.
This would enable people like me to be able to view details of KB hot
fixes installed on a server and find out why they were installed in the first place.
Just an idea.
I agree this is a good idea.
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| 5/26/2005 |
Where is your privacy policy?
Our privacy policy can be found here.
http://www.kbalertz.com/terms.aspx
We are not a big company, we are just a couple of guys. We do not and will not ever sell or give away e-mail addresses. As a matter of fact only two people in the world have access to our database of email addresses. The only way anyone would get your email address, is if they purchased the entire kbAlertz.com organization, in which case you'll be notified in advance and given the opportunity to unsubscribe. We (... more)
| 2/16/2005 |
HOWTO :: Resend my Confirmation Email
You can resend your confirmation email, by supplying your email address on this form.
http://www.kbalertz.com/emailconfirm.aspx
Shortly thereafter, your confirmation email will be resent to you.
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| 1/11/2005 |
Advertising Details for kbAlertz.com
Advertising on kbAlertz.com is a GREAT IDEA !!!
kbAlertz.com is focused on Microsoft Technologies. We have millions of users monthly looking for solutions to problems they're having. If you're product is related to a Microsoft Technology, then kbAlertz.com is the perfect place to advertise. We sell advertising packages on a per technology basis. So you might want to advertise to users looking at Outlook, or Excel, or SQL Server, or ASP.NET related issues. We can show your ad to the users (... more)
| 11/4/2004 |
HOWTO: Use a Form Post to create a kbAlertz.com User Account.
kbAlertz.com is proud to announce the ability to let you host your own sign-up form, on your website, for your users. When a user fills out the sign-up form, they will be transfered to kbAlertz.com, their account will be created, and they will receive an e-mail notification that their account was created.
For the technically inclined, all you need to do is post a form to http://www.kbAlertz.com/PartnerSignup.aspx with the following field values.
email (the users e-mail to sign-up)
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| 8/8/2004 |
What does RSS mean, and why is everyone talking about them?
I've heard a number of definitions for RSS, but the one I think is standard is "Really Simple Syndication". RSS is a stand way of communicating information. It's nothing more then a standard XML document, that "RSS Readers" or "RSS Consumers" or "RSS Aggregaters" accept.
RSS for kbAlertz.com is just another way to be notified of new information on kbAlertz.com. The most common way people subscribe to kbAlertz.com is by e-mail. When we find a new article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, (... more)
| 6/10/2004 |
Alertz for Webcasts.
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| 6/3/2004 |
Multi Language Support for kbAlertz.com
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| 6/3/2004 |
Alertz for Microsoft Downloads
Title Says it all. (... more)
| 6/3/2004 |
HOWTO: Whitelist kbAlertz.com in your Spam Filter
With the advent of outrageous volumes of unwanted email these days, it's unfortunate that legitimate email publications are not being seen by some of the readers who enjoy those publications. There is much fear today that the email publishing / marketing industry is in serious trouble, due to mistakes in filtering when legitimate email is erroneously tagged as unwanted email.
While we applaud the anti-spam industry for removing the plethora of unwanted email from many of our mailboxes, (... more)
| 5/25/2004 |
HOWTO: Access RSS feeds for kbAlertz.com?
RSS feeds are available for every Microsoft technology that is scanned by kbAlertz.com. To find the technology specific RSS feed, simply browse to the "All KB!" link on the top of the page (or the referenced link below). Once on this page, select the technology you are interested in.
On the technology specific page, you'll see an [XML] icon. This is the link to your technology specific RSS feed.
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| 5/25/2004 |
HOWTO: Receive weekly summaries only.
kbAlertz newsletters are published in two versions. Daily and Weekly Summary.
By default, you're signed up for Daily alertz. Sometimes this creates more e-mail then you expect, and a weekly summary is preferred.
To change your account to weekly summary only, login to your account with your e-mail and password. Then select Email Preferences under Account Info. From this screen you can select your Frequency. Again options are Daily & Weekly. You can select one or the other, or both.
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| 5/25/2004 |
Tech-Ed 2004, May 21-31
I'm going to start keeping track of the events that I go to, where I'm representing kbAlertz.com.
This week I find myself at Microsoft Tech-Ed, in San Diego California, handing out hundreds and hundreds of kbAlertz.com t-shirts.
If you are at Tech-Ed this week, please find me, I love to hear your kbAlertz.com success stories, and I'm happy to give you a shirt, you just have to promise to wear it.
So I'm going to try and give away 1000 shirts, and have everyone wear their shirt (... more)
| 5/25/2004 |
Printer Friendly Option
Create a print button, for a printer friendly view of the article. (... more)
| 5/7/2004 |
INFO: No Knowledge Base Summary Found
Occasionally you'll find an article on kbAlertz.com, through a search on kbAlertz.com or, Google, or a partner site, that results in the message "No Knowledge Base Summary Found".
Why is this happening?
Well, as you know kbAlertz.com is only showing you content that is found on the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base. Once in a while, Microsoft retracts an article. When this happens, and we've already scanned the Title and Summary, these titles and summaries show up in our searches.
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| 3/12/2004 |
BUG FIX: 24 FEB 2004 Weekly Summary Being Repeated
On February 17th, kbAlertz.com started running an new service called weekly announcements. This was actually an original feature from last year, that died. For about a year, only daily announcements were going out. Even if you subscribed to weekly announcements, you still got a daily announcement.
This was do to nothing more then the lack of programming time on our part. So finally, in early February 2004, we re-created the weekly summaries. Everything was working fine, until we started (... more)
| 3/12/2004 |
INFO: How do the Weekly Summary KbAlertz messages get sent out?
As of Feb 2004, there is a Weekly Summary available for your account. The weekly summary is separate from your daily Alertz, and you can subscribe to one, or the other, or both. The way the weekly Alertz works is simple. We keep track of the last time we sent you a weekly e-mail. Our engine will only send weekly emails to accounts that have not received an e-mail in the last 7 days. So if the technology you're subscribed to isn't updated for 9 days, you'll receive an Alertz message on the 9th (... more)
| 2/19/2004 |
HOWTO: Use a URL.Redirect to create a kbAlertz.com User Account.
Many of our partners have requested the ability to subscribe users to kbAlertz.com from their website. For example, the Microsoft http://www.ASP.net website has an interest in letting users subscribe to the kbAlertz.com ASP.NET notifications. This obviously helps everyone, with the users being able to easily get notifications on ASP.NET.
kbAlertz.com has a few options that makes this process very simple. One of those options is simply generating a URL, and redirect your user to that URL. (... more)
| 2/10/2004 |
How do I access a list of all the technology RSS Feeds?
There is currently not a list of all the RSS feeds that kbAlertz.com has available. There is however a method to our madness.
Here's how you can accomplish the same task.
Use this XML feed; it is the feed that simply lists all the technologies.
http://www.kbalertz.com/websvc/technologies.aspx
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| 2/9/2004 |
How do I join?
Joining kbAlertz.com is Easy.
Simply visit the home page -> http://www.kbalertz.com
Type in your e-mail address and pasword.
Finally select the technologies that you're interested in recieving notifications.
Finally click any of the brown [Done!] buttons, and you're accout is created.
That's it, You're done.
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| 2/9/2004 |
How do I use saved searches?
When you perform a Microsoft Article Search (from the left menu of kbAlertz.com) and you are logged in, your search is saved, and can be used again, by simply clicking the search text.
We currently save your last 5 searches, that were successful in finding results. If a search doesn't have any results, it is not saved. The idea here, is that it doesn't seem to make sense to save a search, that didn't bring back any results.
Just to reiterate, you must be logged in for this feature (... more)
| 2/7/2004 |
What do kbAlertz.com E-mail Alertz look like?
Our goal at kbAlertz.com is to keep you informed of changes in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, as soon as the articles are entered for technologies that you are interested in.
Every night we scan the Microsoft Knowledge Base. The we look at the technologies that you are subscribed to. If any of your technologies have new articles, we'll send an e-mail to you.
This is what the e-mail would look like, if Microsoft updated two articles on their SQL Server database product, and you were (... more)
| 2/7/2004 |
How do I change my E-Mail Address?
Log in to kbAlertz.com with your current e-mail address and password. (You can login from the home page or there is a link up on the top menu). When you have successfully logged in, you'll see a new set of menus on the top left corner. One of the options under "Account Info" is a link to "Change E-mail Address".
Click this link, and you'll be given a very simple screen, with only one text box on it. Type in your new e-mail address. Click the "Change" button, and this will be your new (... more)
| 1/28/2004 |
Why can't I find the Microsoft technology I'm interested in?
Microsoft has countless products, and literally hundreds of millions of users. Our goal is to scan the Microsoft knowledge base, every day, and keep you up-to-date when new information is published, in the technologies you are interested in.
Of course, you probably know that already, since you were looking for a specific technology and didn't find it on our site. :)
There are a couple of reasons for this. If Microsoft "retires" a technology, we remove it from our knowledge base as (... more)
| 1/26/2004 |
E-Mail Saved Searches
Currently your last 5 searches are saved (if you are logged in). This feature is already in place and makes it easy for you to find that one specific Microsoft Knowledge Base articles again.
At this point, we only save searches that bring back results. We've thought about adding something called "E-mail Searches" (or something, let us know if you think of a better name) that will e-mail you your search results, when a new item is found.
For example, Say you have an error message or (... more)
| 1/22/2004 |
How do I find my password?
If you are not logged in, there is a log in option on the top left of the site. This form asks for you e-mail and password. If you do not know your password, click the "Forgot Password" link. This will take you to a simple form that asks for your e-mail address.
Type in your e-mail address, and your password will be e-mailed to that address.
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| 1/22/2004 |
