While the MSCom Operations team manages 1800+ production servers, hosting over 120 different web properties for internal Microsoft groups (similar to most Ops teams), we also play an important role in helping ship Microsoft system software. Meaning we...

Many stories of the popular author Patrick McManus, contain references to a mysterious concoction, “Whatchagot Stew”. The recipe for this stew is summarized as being whatever people have on hand, tossed together and boiled for some period of time. The...

One of the most common questions I am asked when meeting with customers is, How does MSCOM patch their Enterprise Web servers? I will cover exactly what our approach is, and give you a little background into some of the challenges we are faced with when...