Welcome to the Microsoft.com Operations Blog!

We are the operations team that runs all of the Microsoft.com sites.. WE WANT TO HELP YOU! Ask us your operational questions. Tell us what causes you to lose sleep at night. What causes you the most operational pain? Patch management? Consolidation? App Pool recycling? SQL replication? Tell us YOUR story. We have probably walked in your shoes before and we want to share our experiences with you.

 

After all this ain’t Rocket Science…IT’S OPERATIONS!

 

We are a bona fide Enterprise level Ops team. Anything that ends in *.Mirosoft.com we run. Windows Update, Microsoft Update, the Download center…our team keeps all this humming. We run the 4th largest web site in the world.. Here are some quick facts about what we run.

 

*.Microsoft.com:

  • 3 Data Centers
  • 1606 Data Center Servers
  • 506 Servers in Labs
  • 111 Web Sites
  • 1069 Databases
  • 1000’s of Web Applications
  • 80+Gbit/sec Network Traffic

WWW.Microsoft.com

  • 13 million unique users/day
  • 70 million page views per day
  • 10,000 requests/sec, 300 concurrent connection on 80 servers
  • 350 Vroots

 

Windows Update/Download:

  • 150 million unique client scans/day
  • 12,000 ASP.NET requests/sec
  • 500K concurrent connections
  • 1 Billion Downloads and7 50K client installs in 2 weeks (April 2006)
  • 4Gbit/sec Web Site Egress (Web Pages Only…No Downloads)
  • 20+ Billion Downloads in 2005…Routinely 150M+/Day

 

 

We have Systems Engineers that specialize in WEB Operations; SQL Operations; Debugging; Security & Architecture; Application On-Boarding & Hosting as well as Software Development Engineers. Let us help you. Ask us your questions.