If you didn't see the post on the adCenter Blog, please be aware that on Saturday, January 14, 2012, adCenter, pubCenter, the adCenter API and the adCenter Desktop will be unavailable from approximately 11:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Pacific Time for routine system maintenance. Additionally, please be aware that reporting will be delayed through 9:00 P.M., but you shouldn't notice any staleness in data beyond that point.

Last month we reached out to Microsoft Advertising adCenter users to inform that we are deprecating keyword level negative keywords. Starting today, the campaign and ad group level negative keywords will continue to impact delivery in adCenter and any existing keyword level negative keywords will be ignored. What do these changes mean for adCenter Web users? In the adCenter Web UI,

Some adCenter API users may experience up to a 2-6 hour delay with API performance reports beginning Wednesday November 16, 2011 at 8:00 PM PDT through 2:00 AM PDT Thursday November 17th. Reports are expected to be running normally by November 17, 2011 2:00 AM PDT.

During the next week we will be announcing upgrades and improvements to the adCenter API. Below you'll find a quick sneak peek at what is coming so you are able to keep track of the anouncements and leverage the new functionality as you plan your holiday campaigns. Much of our focus this year has been around improving the adCenter experience through building features to help you unlock more volume through an engaged audience on Yahoo! Search and Bing marketplace.

Some adCenter API users may experience up to a 8-12 hour delay with API performance reports beginning Tuesday November 01, 2011 at 9:00 PM PDT through 9:00 AM PDT Wednesday November 2nd. Reports are expected to be running normally by November 2, 2011 9:00 AM PDT. If you have any questions or concerns, visit the API forum .

If you missed the post on the adCenter Blog last week, this is just a quick heads up that the API, the adCenter UI and the Desktop will be unavailable from approximately 11:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Pacific Time for routine system maintenance. Though you will be unable to access adCenter during this time, please note that campaigns will continue to run normally and your ads will continue to serve. We apologize for any inconvenience.

In an effort to make it easier for you to identify and act upon opportunities to improve your campaign performance, were excited to announce the new Optimizer Service, now available via the adCenter API. With this new feature, you can use operations to identify campaigns that have paused or will soon pause because of budget limitations. Additionally, you can also get easy-to-implement budget recommendations for your campaigns.

On Saturday, October 15, 2011, adCenter will be unavailable from approximately 10:00 AM PDT to 10:00 PM PDT for routine system maintenance. Though you will be unable to access adCenter during this time, please note that campaigns will continue to run normally and your ads will continue to serve. We apologize for any inconvenience.

FINAL UPDATE 9:30PM PDT: All adCenter reporting now is up-to-date as of 3:50 PM PDT, this concludes the updates to this thread as all open issues have now been resolved. - Yesterday's API outage has been resolved, both the UI and API are currently running. Given a moderate delay in report data during the outage, we recommend avoiding requests to the reporting service until the delay has been resolved. Please note that campaigns will continue to run normally.

I am writing to give some additional details on our adCenter Sandbox environment upgrade. The last sandbox feature updates were completed in February. We continue to deploy patches and system upgrades as appropriate. As we release new components to the production environment, such changes are not yet being applied to the sandbox. Thus, the new API v8 features and some recent changes to v7 are not currently supported in sandbox. For example,

All versions for the Microsoft Advertising adCenter API will experience maintenance downtime starting at 10pm PST on Saturday, August 27th to 6am PST Sunday, August 28th. While the Sandbox environment will not be available, the API Production environment will operate as usual and ads will continue to serve. If you have any questions, please visit the API Forum . Thanks for reading! Tina Kelleher,

The newest features of Microsoft adCenter Veresion 8 are now available in the API Production environment. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the new features and plan to upgrade your WSDLs to Version 8 . Here's a quick look at the updates included in this release: Global Targeting offers you greater targeting control. The LanguageAndRegion elements are divided into separate Language and PublisherCountries elements, allowing fo rmore specific targeting.

As of September 30, 2011, adCenter API Version 6 will no longer be supported in the Sandbox or Production environments. If you are still running adCenter API Version 6, we recommend that you begin upgrading as soon as possible to give yourself time to be code complete before the sunset. Two upgrade paths are available to you; you can upgrade to adCenter API Version 7 or Version 8. If You Choose to Upgrade to adCenter API Version 7 To learn more about adCenter API Version 7 ,

All environments for the Microsoft Advertising adCenter API will experience maintenance downtime starting at 8pm PST on Tuesday, August 2nd to 8am PST Wednesday, August 3rd. While the Sandbox environment will not be available, the API Production environment will operate as usual and ads will continue to serve. If you have any questions, please visit the API Forum . Thanks for reading! Tina Kelleher, SMB Community Manager * Please note,

Mark your Outlook calendar where our API experts will not only walk through the latest feature available in v8, but will take your questions as well. Date : August 18th, 2011 Time : 1:00 P.M 2:00 P.M. PST Join the meeting . The Microsoft Advertising adCenter API Version 8 will be available in the Production environment in August.

The Microsoft Advertising adCenter API Version 8 will be available in the Production environment in August. Version 8 includes new and updated features to help you better manage your search and content advertising: Global Targeting offers you greater targeting control. The LanguageAndRegion elements are divided into separate Language and PublisherCountries elements, allowing fo rmore specific targeting.

You told us adCenters budgeting options were too complicated and difficult to manage. The manner in which your search marketing dollars were going to be dispersed was not always clear nor consistent. Were continuing to make changes to our budget options that will make managing your campaign budgets easier. This month,

On Saturday, July 23, 2011, the adCenter web user interface, Desktop )Beta( and API will be unavailable from approximately 11:00 AM PDT to 7:00 PM PDT for routine system maintenance. Users in all markets will be unable to access adCenter during this time. Please note that campaigns will continue to run normally. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thanks! Tina Kelleher, SMB Community Manager Sign in to adCenter | Need an account?

Weve heard your requests to make our budget options simpler. On May 12, we implemented the Daily Budget change for new and edited daily budget campaigns. You might have seen our earlier blog posts on this change. To give you time to plan, we waited to implement the change for all daily budget campaigns. Now its time! On June 1 , in response to advertiser feedback , well be implementing the Daily Budget change for all daily budget campaigns. Now,

On Saturday, June 4, 2011, the adCenter API, adCenter web UI and Desktop )Beta( will be unavailable from approximately 11:00 AM PDT to 7:00 PM PDT for routine system maintenance. Users in all markets will be unable to access the adCenter API during this time. Please note that campaigns will continue to run normally. We apologize for any inconvenience.