While the Microsoft.com Operations team was in Boston two weeks ago presenting at TechEd2006, a customer came up to chat with us. He had a great idea. He said, “I really liked the webcasts that MSCOM has done. I only wish that I could get the audio from those webcasts in a format that I could listen...

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 patching our production Web servers. Also, I have...

Bugs? What bugs? My code doesn’t have any stinkin’ bugs!! Of course the testers may have a little different view than the developers. Hundred’s of developers furiously writing code and they all want to hit their release date. Operations also wants to make sure that the scheduled releases go off without...

OK, here is Part 2 of the Q & A from MSCOM’s WebCast Week. These are from Tuesday’s session on Configuration and Management of Web Farms . The topics that Jeff Toews covered in this web cast included Configuration Management where he descried how we build out a server and our use of site-specific...