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...

Our Ops team has been testing and sampling the goods that are Longhorn Server for a while now and one of the areas we're very interested in is networking. Specifically, we're jazzed about the changes happening in the TCP/IP stack for both Vista and Longhorn...

If anyone is familiar with satisfying “needs of the moment,” it’s your local Operations team…application errors, network failures, DoS attacks, deploying new applications, etc. A lot of times it’s simply hard to see the forest through the trees so to...

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...

We all are very excited to be a part of this extraordinary event. The scope and depth of technical information at this event is outstanding!! IF YOU HAVE ATTENDED ONE OF OUR SESSIONS PLEASE USE THIS POST TO SUBMIT QUESTIONS, COMMENTS OR FEEDBACK...

This is the third installment in an ongoing series of blog posts from Todd Weeks, Sr. Director of the Microsoft.com Portal and Operations Team As I have been working with a few people over the past months, there have been a couple of themes that...

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...

In response to our article Inside Microsoft.com Moving Microsoft Update Downloads to x64 we had a great question posed to us about why we use user-mode caching instead of kernel-mode caching in IIS6.0 for the download infrastructure for Microsoft Update...

This is the second in an ongoing series of blog posts from Todd Weeks, Sr. Director of Operations for the Microsoft.com Operations Team. In my last post, I talked a lot about the “Share It” piece of the work that our team does. How we focus on Innovation...

As promised here are the demo batch from Friday March 31 webcast “ Debugging Without the Debugger In IIS and ASP.NET ” presented by Chris St.Amand . Here is the link available to download from the Microsoft Download Center. This download is a winzip...

Friday’s topic “ Debugging Without the Debugger In IIS and ASP.NET ” presented by Chris St.Amand , a Sr. Systems Engineer on the MSCOM OPS Debugging Team, proved to be a very popular topic, and a strong ending to MSCOM Ops March Debug Madness webcast...

Here is the Download Center link to the with the web logs that Jim Dobbin captured during his webcast Diagnosing Memory Leaks In ASP.Net Applications . These are great to have locally on hand if you plan to watch the webcast on-demand (see link above...

Thrusday’s topic was “ How to Tackle Problems In Dynamically Generated Assemblies ” presented by Khalil Nassar, a Sr. Systems Engineer on the MSCOM OPS Debugging Team. Here are your questions and Khalil’s answers. Asked: Do these techniques require...

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...

Wednesday’s topic was “ Diagnosing Memory Leaks in ASP.NET Applications ” presented by Jim Dobbin, a Sr. Systems Engineer on the MSCOM OPS Debugging Team. As this week progressed we continued to be impressed by the level of the questions asked. Here are...

Tuesday we jumped into “ Debugging CLR Internals ” (which is now avaiable on-demand) and presented by Jeff Stucky, the Systems Engineer Manager of the MSCOM OPS Debugging Team. The folks that attended asked some outstanding questions… 1. Asked:...

Here are the links to watch these webcasts on-demand: Monday March 27, 2006 TechNet Webcast: Microsoft.com Operations Introduces Real World Debugging: Determining When You Have a Problem and Beginning the Initial Debugging (Level 300) It is not always...

Microsoft.com Operations: Real World Debugging ‑ Determining When You Have A Problem and Initial Debugging As promised here are the commands, scripts and the Console Debugger log file from Monday March 27 th MSCOM Ops webcast Here is the link available...

SQL Server 2005 offers a plethora of innovative technologies designed to let everyone access data in a way that would make the information more useful to each individual. The purpose, of course, is to ensure that the developer can use the information...

Thanks to everyone that attended today’s first webcast of the week entitled “ Determining When You Have A Problem & Beginning the Initial Debugging” and presented by Jeffrey Johnson, a Sr. Systems Engineer on the MSCOM OPS Debugging Team. Don...

Then and now…. Back in the pioneer days of the internet when everything and everyone were all about agility and innovation, we threw new websites on servers without rules or review and without any customer evaluation and education. Those were exciting...

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We are super excited to announce that we will again be partnering with TechNet on a week long series of Webcasts. Our webcast week that we held in November 2005 really fired up the debug team so they came up with the idea of digging in even deeper into...