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I've had an active developer program account since 2008. While various tools have gone offline now and then, and there are planned shutdowns around the holidays and during keynotes, this incident seems unique.

Wonder what's going on over there. This outage makes the provisioning portal inaccessible. That could mean very real work disruptions, since no new code signing credentials can be made.

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NSA hooks in the dev forums? ;-) Crap, I'm not getting hell-banned am I?

Anyway, yeah. It's gone down a couple times for scheduled maintenance and we've been notified. This one wasn't mentioned at all. No surfin' the forums today/yesterday. boo.

I've managed to successfully provision new devices and run dev apps on them yesterday using xcode's organizer, so at least there's that.

Did you need to do anything special? Keeps timing out when I try to use it.

No. I had to add a few new iPads, so I opened the organizer, clicked the 'use for development' button and it was good. It took a little bit for the actual provisioning profile to update but I was able to run the dev app on the device right away.

This was yesterday morning. I haven't tried today, though.

My guess it's the SAN. Many enterprise deployments I've seen will expose the same binaries across the many servers in the cluster.

And it fits in well with an across the board fault.

There was an incidence of what I suppose we should term "unannounced maintenance" a few months ago.

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