Microsoft.com Operations

The Mystery of the Missing Process Performance Counter in Perfmon

2008-12-19T00:57:00Z

One typical day I receive a request from a performance tester who is trying to collect some baseline production data about www.microsoft.com , the request seemed simple collect a couple of performance counter values during peak hours and post the data back to him . I started to collecting data from my machines. One of the counters that he was interested in was Process à Handle Count à w3wp. I could not find the process counter the counters what I had was as follows. I quickly remembered about...(read more)

SE Tips and Tricks -- Save aTS Session Run Remote... Find Hyper V information

2008-07-11T17:58:00Z

Editors Note: One the System Engineers that run the servers that host www.Microsoft.com told me that he wanted to start posting some of the methods and tips and tricks that they use when managing one of the most heavily visitied web site in the world. This post kicks off this series. 1) How to remotely find out if a machine has Hyper V is installed? When you install the hyperv Role on windows 2008 it updates the BCD store (replacement of boot.ini in 2008 & Vista) of the machine with...(read more)

Microsoft.com Operations Performance Analysis of IIS 7.0/Windows Server 2008

2008-06-09T21:12:00Z

Now that Windows Server 2008 has been released earlier this year many enterprises are assessing the value proposition of moving to the Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0. As an IT Pro or decision maker in this process you want real world working proof to make your decision clearer. Sure, the new file based configuration system and modular architecture of IIS 7.0 make administrating your web servers a whole lot more flexible. But how does it perform against its predecessor IIS 6.0 / Windows Server 2003...(read more)

New IIS 7.0 White Paper…Internet Information Services 7.0 in Windows Server 2008 Provides an Improved Web and Application Platform

2008-04-25T19:20:00Z

This paper discusses the management, security, performance and extensibility improvements when Windows Server 2008 is deployed to host and manage applications and services that run on the server and/or over the Web. Check it out on this TechNet link !...(read more)

Modern .NET Development and The Joy of Simple LINQ to SQL

2008-04-16T18:51:00Z

Introduction – Modern .NET Development It took me a while to realize it, but Microsoft .NET application development has significantly evolved in the past year and a half. This is not your dad’s .NET . The following releases have added many considerable advances in .NET application development technologies: Microsoft Product Release Date Major Features .NET Framework version 3.0 November 11th, 2006 WPF , WCF Silverlight version 1.0 ...(read more)

Microsoft.com Engineering Operations TechCenter NEW on TechNet.Microsoft.com

2008-04-11T22:44:00Z

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 findings with the ITPro/Systems Engineering community. Take a look at the key articles that are in this inaugural launch: Introduction to the Microsoft.com Engineering Operations Team Introduces...(read more)

Microsoft.com Engineering Operations Forum Is Now LIVE!!

2008-03-12T21:03:00Z

We are pleased to announce that the Microsoft.com Engineering Operations Forum is now live on TechNet. Come join us in discussions that are focused on Engineering Operations. Ask questions, give us your insights, help us build the community of folks that are engaged in real-world systems engineering. Log in with your Windows Live ID and be a part of the discussions....(read more)

Systems Engineering Architecture Consultation…”Help Us to Help You!”

2008-01-12T00:06:00Z

MSCOM Operations get lots of requests from both internal and external customers on how we operate www.microsoft.com , Microsoft Update, and the Microsoft Download Center (just to name a few). Those customers are asking about a wide variety of topics that we may be able to help them with. Topics like our best practices we use in rolling out new technologies like Windows 2008 and IIS7.0 to our production web environment ,or how we use Peer-to Peer replication in our SQL topologies. Sometimes they just...(read more)

IIS7.0 Lessons Learned In MSCOM Production Environment - On Demand Webcast

2007-12-04T23:48:00Z

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 you to use the link above to view this On Demand. L earn about some of the new benefits and features in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0 in the Windows Server 2008 operating...(read more)

Analyzing HTTP Traffic On Your IIS 7.0 Cluster

2007-11-29T19:11:00Z

If you have ever run an enterprise web site you have probably received a panicked call from a customer or from your Tier 1 monitoring team that your site was responding slowly or throwing 500 errors and that you needed to resolve this issue ASAP. Maybe you are rolling out a new application or software across your site and want to perform side by side analysis of servers to ensure their health. Over the past year we have rolled out multiple pre-release versions of Windows Server 2008 / IIS 7...(read more)