The Microsoft.com Operations Team is pleased to announce the launch of our new Microsoft.com Engineering Operations TechCenter . This site ids designed with the ITPro/Systems Engineer in mind. We get to work on some cutting edge technologies and our goal is to share our experiences, best practices, and...

When looking for ways to improve their site, the development team for MSDN.microsoft.com and Technet.microsoft.com wanted to be able to leverage a new feature set of ASP.NET - virtual path providers and dynamic compilation. What does a virtual path provider do? It allows you to make your content disappear...

And I am not just talking about Aluminum and Polystyrene. Application Pool recycling is one great feature of IIS6 but how do you know if it is helping you or hurting you? It’s great for availability and reliability but it can also be masking real problems with code running in your applications. If you...