A Former Microsoft IIS PM

On Thursday, July 14th, 2005 I admittingly hurried together a presentation termed “IIS 6.0 Tracing:  Inside and Out.”  However, I had everything put together just right to hit a home run in this webcast until “production” came about.  No one out there ever runs into problems only in production do they…?

They say that you can’t teach “old” dogs new tricks but that certainly is the oldest myth in the business.  There are individuals out there that has been breathing IIS inside and out longer than I, but there aren’t many.  You can’t deny the simple fact that no one person knows everything —

The field (Julian) dropped a best practice off that was directly from a customer.  This is often the types of questions we get from customers and I kinda liked Julian's response...If there is no clear answer, shower them with options - right? 

Man, I tell ya...The past few months I have had the honor to work closer than ever with a true, unbelieveably talented designer.  When I took ownership of the IIS.NET project (not from someone, but instead from ground zero) the first thing I started doing was trying to take the www.asp.net design and apply to the eventual, newly published www.iis.net.  After a few key meetings (imagine the feedback), we were able to squander out a few $$$'s to make an attempt at a new design.  My perspective, or better yet designer "view", was different then (circa March '06) than today as we have a cool, new design in place that offers a unique identity from any other site out there.  In short, I lost through other deliverables the understanding of what a very awesome, and excellent designer can bring to a project.

I delivered a presentation during the IIS Webcast Series regarding Server Performance Advisor 2.0 & IIS 6.0.  There was one simple scenario whereby I demonstrated how Server Performance Advisor 2.0 would locate and indicate to a IT Professional and\or Developers when caching had been disabled.

A recent question came across our "desk" today that I thought was an interesting point that many of you might be interested in.  The question -