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...

MSCOM has been running IIS7.0 in production since June 12, 2007. On November 27 we did a webcast entitled: How Microsoft IT Is Providing an Improved Web and Applications Platform with Internet Information Services 7.0 in Windows Server 2008 In case you missed this live event we would like to invite...

If you were unabel to make it to Orlando and were jsut dying to catch the MSCOM Operations Presentation Microsoft.com: Employing Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services 7 As A Next Generation Platform for SaaS Web Applications , here is another chance for you to view this session. As...

A couple of months ago some folks from the Architecture Evangelism group in Microsoft approached us with an interesting idea, they wanted to produce an informal video series that focused on MSCOM Operations. They bill these as “Light Weight Case Studies”, and they have now been completed. They are being...

We are goaled on our availability and we track this on a daily basis. That being said, our Director of Engineering Operations made a bet with our Sr. Director of Operations (his boss) that www.microsoft.com would have the highest availability at the end of the year (based on publicly available Keynote...

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...