Here is the link that you can keep in your SharePoint Toolkit:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35491

It has both the 32-bit and 64-bit version

Open CMD prompt (in elevated mode) and type in this command

Command:

DISM /online /Cleanup-Image /SpSuperseded

In my Engineering Toolkit I named this command: Secret command to clean up WinSXS folder

The SharePoint 2013 IT Pro and Developer training materials have been released at TechNet and MSDN, here is the link to help you get started:

• SharePoint 2013 IT Pro and Developer training
  materials released

Thanks Vesa Juvonen for the announcement of this training. I had the opportunity to attend this training in person and I found it to be very useful for IT Admins planning to support the next wave of SharePoint.

Hope you enjoy,

Nate

The SharePoint team released SharePoint 2013 Preview today on 7/16/2012.

Here is a link for all the documentation needs on SharePoint 2013 Preview: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303422(v=office.15)

Here is the link for the bits:

SharePoint Foundation 2013 Preview 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30345

List of Code
references:

PowerRules - Set of PowerShell Scripts used by MSIT
SharePoint for managing Configuration Drift (Configuration Changes over Time)

Link: https://powerrules.codeplex.com/

PowerPivot SharePoint Latency Dashboard - Example Excel file
of how to view latency data over time in PowerPivot/Excel. Make sure to
download PowerPivot 2012 Add-In for Excel.

Link: https://sdrv.ms/MvpNHT

SPAuto - Set of example scripts to help you start automating
your SharePoint deployment process

Link: https://spauto.codeplex.com/

SP Pivot - Application that lets you view data in Microsoft
Pivot Viewer on your SharePoint site. Very useful for many applications, in the
TechEd presentation I used it for showing how you can maintain asset management
for your SharePoint farms.

Link: https://sppivot.codeplex.com/

Please note, that all the scripts/code above is Example code
and not supported by myself or my colleagues. You can email me on questions you
have but expect a delayed response since I am extremely busy working on futures
of SharePoint in Microsoft IT.

Thanks again for attending the session, hope to see you next
time!

Nate

Thanks for everyone that attended our session at Tech Ed North America. I really appreciate all your support and comments about our session. Since Jim and I work in IT at Microsoft it is always hard to secure budget to go to these conferences and to take time out of our busy schedules. From our side - It is something that we look forward to each year, want to continue, and are both really passionate about helping customers. We believe it is well worth it for all the customer engagements that we participated in each year and sharing our story of "How we manage SharePoint at Microsoft". 

In order to continue having talks from Microsoft IT, we need your feedback to TechEd demonstrating that your experiences with Microsoft IT Speakers are very helpful for your organization. That way we can bubble this up to our management structure to help get sponsorship for the events.

Again, thanks for all the great comments. I will be posting my demos and code from the talk - planning in next two weeks. So stay tuned. Also if there are any other topics you are interested in Microsoft IT talking about regarding SharePoint please let me know and possibly we could write a new talk or add it to our current talk. 

Here is a link to our presentation online - You can stream the video or download the presentation: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/OSP232

If there is any specific questions feel free to write me mail or see you in person!

Thanks all, looking forward to the event!!

Nate

Thanks to all that attended our session at the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA. For all of you that missed it or want a quick reference to our deck - Here it is:

Session Title:

36 Terabytes: How Microsoft IT Manages SharePoint in the Enterprise

 Presenter(s): Jim Adams, Nate Bruneau

Abstract:

Microsoft’s internal SharePoint
services provide 180,000 global users a comprehensive collaboration experience
hosting 36 terabytes of content across three regional data centers. Learn how
Microsoft IT architected, deployed, and manages its SharePoint enterprise
services.

Topics include:

• 
  Upgrade from 2007 to
  2010
• 
  Provisioning &
  Automation
• 
  Architecture
• 
  Storage
• 
  Virtualization
• 
  Disaster Recovery
• 
  Monitoring Tools
  & Best Practices
• 
  Governance and Life
  Cycle Management
• 
  Maintenance and
  Quality Control Auditing
• 
  How the Cloud and
  Office365 fit into MSIT’s future.

Audience level: 200-300

SPC11 SPC294 - Adams-Bruneau Final.pptx

Just wanted to give you a quick update that SharePoint 2010 SP1 Released to the public to download. My group in MSIT have been testing SP1 for the last several months internally and are excited for customers to check out the new features.

Here is the link to learn more:

https://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=984

There has been much improvements in storage architecture including performance and realibility improvements. Therefore some major changes have been documented such as SharePoint supports up to 4 GB storage for each content database as well as RBS using iSCSI to low cost disks

https://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=988

Install the software and delight your customers! Thanks to the SharePoint Product group for another great service pack release.

-Nate

$url = "https://sharepoint"

$xHTTP = New-Object -ComObject msxml2.xmlhttp

$xHTTP.open("GET", $url, $false)

$xHTTP.send()

$xHTTP.getResponseHeader("MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices")

Output: 14.0.0.5128

If you want to have some more fun, check out all these SharePoint sites in the world (https://www.wssdemo.com/livepivot) and see which versions they are running. Enjoy