Microsoft.com Operations
We are the operations team that runs the Microsoft.com sites.
Light Weight Case Studies…Up-close and Personal With Microsoft.com Operations
A couple of months ago some folks from the Architecture Evangelism group in Microsoft approached us...
Author: MSCOM Date: 07/13/2006
Do you manage the forest or do the trees manage you?
If anyone is familiar with satisfying “needs of the moment,” it’s your local Operations...
Author: MSCOM Date: 07/05/2006
MSCOM WebCast Morphed Into PodCast…A Great Idea From A TechEd2006 Customer
While the Microsoft.com Operations team was in Boston two weeks ago presenting at TechEd2006, a...
Author: MSCOM Date: 06/27/2006
Microsoft.com Operations at TechEd2006…Welcome To Boston...POWER TO THE PROS!!
We all are very excited to be a part of this extraordinary event. The scope and depth of technical...
Author: MSCOM Date: 06/12/2006
View From The Top… Stay In Touch!!!
This is the third installment in an ongoing series of blog posts from Todd Weeks, Sr. Director of...
Author: MSCOM Date: 06/06/2006
What-Ya-Got-Too-Much-of Stew
Many stories of the popular author Patrick McManus, contain references to a mysterious concoction,...
Author: MSCOM Date: 05/08/2006
User Mode or Kernel Mode…Which Caching Method Did We Use?
In response to our article Inside Microsoft.com Moving Microsoft Update Downloads to x64 we had a...
Author: MSCOM Date: 04/28/2006
View From The Top…DO IT, PROVE IT, KNOW IT, SHARE IT
This is the second in an ongoing series of blog posts from Todd Weeks, Sr. Director of Operations...
Author: MSCOM Date: 04/11/2006
MSCOM OPS March Debug Madness…5th Session Companion Demo Files: Debugging Without the Debugger In IIS and ASP.NET
As promised here are the demo batch from Friday March 31 webcast “Debugging Without the Debugger In...
Author: MSCOM Date: 04/05/2006
MSCOM OPS March Debug Madness…5th Session Q & A: Debugging Without the Debugger In IIS and ASP.NET
Friday’s topic “Debugging Without the Debugger In IIS and ASP.NET” presented by Chris St.Amand, a...
Author: MSCOM Date: 04/04/2006
MSCOM OPS March Debug Madness...3rd Session Companion Logs for "Diagnosing Memory Leaks In ASP.Net Apps" Webcast
Here is the Download Center link to the with the web logs that Jim Dobbin captured during his...
Author: MSCOM Date: 04/04/2006
MSCOM OPS March Debug Madness…4th Session Q & A Tackling Problems In Dynamic Assemblies
Thrusday’s topic was “How to Tackle Problems In Dynamically Generated Assemblies” presented by...
Author: MSCOM Date: 04/04/2006
I Just Want To Get My Code Into Production…Operations Can Be Your Best Friend
Bugs? What bugs? My code doesn’t have any stinkin’ bugs!! Of course the testers may have a little...
Author: MSCOM Date: 04/03/2006
MSCOM OPS March Debug Madness…3rd Session Q & A Dignosing Memory Leaks in ASP.NET Applications
Wednesday’s topic was “Diagnosing Memory Leaks in ASP.NET Applications” presented by Jim Dobbin, a...
Author: MSCOM Date: 03/31/2006
MSCOM OPS March Debug Madness…2nd Session Q & A Debugging CLR Internals
Tuesday we jumped into “Debugging CLR Internals” (which is now avaiable on-demand) and presented by...
Author: MSCOM Date: 03/31/2006
MSCOM OPS March Debug Madness…1st Session Webcast Commands and Scripts
Microsoft.com Operations: Real World Debugging - Determining When You Have A Problem and Initial...
Author: MSCOM Date: 03/28/2006
Doctor Strangedata, Or How I Learned to Love the Common Table Expression
SQL Server 2005 offers a plethora of innovative technologies designed to let everyone access data in...
Author: MSCOM Date: 03/28/2006
MSCOM OPS March Debug Madness…1st Webcast Session Q&A
Thanks to everyone that attended today’s first webcast of the week entitled “Determining When You...
Author: MSCOM Date: 03/27/2006
How I Learned C#...Confessions of A New MSCOM Debug Team Member
//START What do the phrases, "The grass is greener!", "How long did that take?", and, "iiisshhh...
Author: MSCOM Date: 03/08/2006
Where, Oh Where Did All of the Microsoft.com SQL Clusters Go?
As the Group Manager for the database engineers that run Microsoft.com I’ve been repeatedly asked...
Author: MSCOM Date: 02/13/2006
Empower Your Engineering Staff...View From The Top (A Message From MSCOM’s Sr. Director of Operations)
This is the first in an ongoing series of blog posts from Todd Weeks, Sr. Director of Operations for...
Author: MSCOM Date: 02/01/2006
MSCOM WebCast Week…Q & A (Part 5) Troubleshooting & Debugging Web Hosting Environments
The webcast series ended with a tag team presentation by Jeff Stucky, Jim Dobbin, Khalil Nassar and...
Author: MSCOM Date: 11/15/2005
MSCOM WebCast Week…Q & A (Part 4) Monitor and Manage an Enterprise Platform with Microsoft.com Operations
The webcast series started with High Availability Architecture, Configuration Management of Web...
Author: MSCOM Date: 11/15/2005
MSCOM WebCast Week…Q & A (Part 2) Configuration and Management of Web Farms
OK, here is Part 2 of the Q & A from MSCOM’s WebCast Week. These are from Tuesday’s session on...
Author: MSCOM Date: 11/14/2005
Performance – Its like an Onion
No, not because it stinks; not because it brings tears to your eyes; but because performance has...
Author: MSCOM Date: 11/03/2005
Top 10 Topics for MSCOM Ops…Getting the Bits From Development to Production
That’s what this is about. There is great code that has traversed the SDLC (Software Development...
Author: MSCOM Date: 10/26/2005
Top 10 Topics for MSCOM Ops…Pull Out the Swiss Army Knife... (Logparser That Is)... The TOOL MAN Cometh!! (Part 4)
One of the most useful tools that we use in MSCOM Ops has to be LogParser. I can’t say enough about...
Author: MSCOM Date: 10/19/2005
Top 10 Topics for MSCOM Ops…The TOOL MAN Cometh!! (Part 3)
Well we were rummaging around in our collective tool box and we came up with the following:FILEMON –...
Author: MSCOM Date: 10/17/2005
MSCOM Ops Webcast Week...Sign Up Links
Here are the links to sign up for the upcoming webcast series. Go to...
Author: MSCOM Date: 10/12/2005
Top 10 Topics for MSCOM Ops…The TOOL MAN Cometh!! (Part 2)
More goodness from the MSCOM Ops tool belt…(with lots more to come!). My stars! We are just...
Author: MSCOM Date: 10/12/2005
Top 10 Topics for MSCOM Ops…The TOOL MAN Cometh!!!
It is amazing to see what one little innocent question and two topic suggestions can generate. Your...
Author: MSCOM Date: 10/11/2005
Top 10 Topics for MSCOM Ops…Monitoring and Reporting (oh yeah!)
This came in as the second most popular topic that you are interested in. Huh, imagine that. You...
Author: MSCOM Date: 10/11/2005
Top 10 Topics for MSCOM Ops…How Are We Organized?
More answers for you... Question: What representation does Operations have within the MS management...
Author: MSCOM Date: 10/10/2005
Top 10 Topics for MSCOM Ops…Jobs and 3rd Party Tools
We're just gonna keep feeding this stuff to you as we get replies... Question: What's your one...
Author: MSCOM Date: 10/06/2005
Top 10 Topics for MSCOM Ops…Dog Food, How Good Is It?
You told us what you’re interested in by questions or topics of interest. Thanks! We want to be as...
Author: MSCOM Date: 10/05/2005
A Planter or Trebuchet Ammunition…Top Ten Things You Want to Ask the Micorosft.com Operations Team
We were sitting around a the hulk of a cold, dead server one night; one of those old quad 700’s;...
Author: MSCOM Date: 10/03/2005
Performance Monitor Logs…Snappy Set Up for Pure Baseline Goodness!
Your boss walks in and fixes you with that icy stare and demands to know, “Why are the ASP.Net...
Author: MSCOM Date: 09/19/2005
Microsoft.com Operations Scripts…Coming To TechNet Magazine
One of the first comments we received after we kicked off this blog was: What are the top 10 scripts...
Author: MSCOM Date: 09/12/2005
Tell us your operational pain points!!
Welcome to the Microsoft.com Operations Blog! We are the operations team that runs all of the...
Author: MSCOM Date: 09/09/2005