That’s what this is about. There is great code that has traversed the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). Someone’s great idea was turned into a project that was assigned human resources with the ultimate marching orders of simply “Get’er Done”. Spec...

One of the most useful tools that we use in MSCOM Ops has to be LogParser . I can’t say enough about this tool. We use it to parse IIS Logs, NetMon logs, NT Event logs, HTTP… in fact I can’t think of log that I ever met that LogParser could not parse...

Well we were rummaging around in our collective tool box and we came up with the following: FILEMON – Used for tracking down which processes are accessing particular files or particular drives on your system. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon...

Here are the links to sign up for the upcoming webcast series. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx , then click on the More live webcasts… link at the bottom of the page scroll to the date of the event. We hope hope you can join us!...

More goodness from the MSCOM Ops tool belt…(with lots more to come!). My stars! We are just scratching the surface. WCAT ( W eb C apacity A nalysis T ool – Very useful web application stress tool for generating stress against a particular URL or...

It is amazing to see what one little innocent question and two topic suggestions can generate. Your question was: Do you have any good LogParser tricks? and your topic suggestions: Scripting, Tools and Utilities This will most definitely...

This came in as the second most popular topic that you are interested in. Huh, imagine that. You actually have to report out to somebody on what the heck the environment that you manage is doing. So do we. Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly. Oh...

More answers for you... Question: What representation does Operations have within the MS management structure? MSCOM Operations is part of the Windows Division within Microsoft. It is a team of roughly 75 Full Time Employees (FTE) and 20 Contingent...

We are pleased and very excited to be able to announce this upcoming week long series of webcast this November. Here are the links to sign up for the upcoming webcast series. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx , then click on the More...

We're just gonna keep feeding this stuff to you as we get replies... Question: What's your one 'must-have' software product that isn't produced by MS? Good question. I would have to say Keynote. We use this 3 rd party, (O/S and platform agnostic...

You told us what you’re interested in by questions or topics of interest. Thanks! We want to be as responsive as we can. We got a great list of questions/topics that we have divided them up among our team. As the answers get back to us we will post them...

We were sitting around a the hulk of a cold, dead server one night; one of those old quad 700’s; trying to determine if we should turn it in a planter or use it as a projectile to launch from a Trebuchet <a real Venus or Mars moment> when the discussion...