[METADATA UPDATE][Merge by 2024-02-21] Retiring the ms.prod and ms.technology metadata attributes from the Learn platform (values moving to ms.service)

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Fixing# Remove ms.prod = system-center. Replaced by ms.service = system-center

Summary In Germanium, the ms.prod and ms.technology metadata attributes will be retired from the Learn platform and values will be consolidated into ms.service and ms.subservice for reporting on content by product.

• C+E Skilling Content Architecture manages internal, business-facing taxonomies that enable reporting on key metrics for content published on Microsoft Learn. Authors manually apply values from these taxonomies to populate metadata attributes.
• Two of these taxonomies are ms.prod/ms.technology and ms.service/ms.subservice. "ms.prod" and "ms.service" were distinctions carried over from legacy systems that predated the Learn platform, intended to differentiate on-prem products from cloud services.
• We plan to rename the attributes from ms.service and ms.subservice in a future semester.

Why are we making this change?

• For the business: Accuracy of reporting metadata directly impacts the accuracy of content analytics, so it's important that related taxonomies reflect the current state of the business. Most product taxonomies within Microsoft no longer distinguish between "on-prem" and "cloud service."
• For content authors: We eliminate the need to choose between two similar attributes when applying reporting metadata to content or filtering reports.
• For engineers, data scientists, and taxonomists: Simplifying and reducing underlying metadata attributes reduces the cost and complexity required to extend metadata capabilities on the platform.

How does this affect me?

• Once changes to reporting metadata are merged, dashboards and reports maintained by Skilling Insights & Intelligence will reflect new values. If you've been using ms.prod/ms.technology filters, you'll switch to ms.service/ms.subservice filters in those dashboards and reports.
• If you have custom dashboards or Kusto queries, you might need to update those as well.

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Learn Build status updates of commit f1435e3:

:bulb: Validation status: suggestions

File	Status	Preview URL	Details
docfx.json	:bulb:Suggestion		Details

docfx.json

• Line 1, Column 1: [Suggestion: uhf-header-id-missing - See documentation] uhfHeaderId should not be null; specify the uhfHeaderId in global metadata of docfx.json file.
• Line 82, Column 44: [Suggestion: ms-author-invalid - See documentation] Invalid value for 'ms.author', 'v-jysur' is not a valid Microsoft alias.

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