It's been a while, so here's what's up with Subscriber Downloads:
1. Just spent nearly two full weeks with the several teams that run the various aspects of the subscription program to come up with the architecture for the new MSDN Subscriber Downloads login page. It looks like with the next major release (due about mid-next-year) we'll be able to have multiple subscriptions associated with a single Passport, in some cases we'll know about them automatically and in all other cases we'll provide an "add subscription to this Passport" functionality. There are still some issues around TechNet subscription integration and LadyBugg integration - so I'm not committing to these as yet.
2. Build 1247 of Windows Server 2003 requires a different key type, so I've pulled the build until we get this figured out. Basically, 1247 requires an activation key for the 32-bit and AMD 64-bit builds, but not the IA64 builds. I don't really want to publish production keys for a test build, and I don't want to tell customers to use their one WS03 key for a test build, so I'm looking at options. Let me know your thoughts on how you as a customer would like this handled if you like - the third option is to give some keys to the customer service reps and let them give one out to those subscribers who ask for them.
3. Pretty much everything from the January 05 media shipment is in Xena, with the exception of WS03 SP1 1247. Academic Alliance customers will get Virtual PC for Mac 7.0 here in the next few days, but that's about it in terms of new content.