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IIS7.0 Lessons Learned In MSCOM Production Environment - On Demand Webcast
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...(read more)
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Analyzing HTTP Traffic On Your IIS 7.0 Cluster
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...(read more)
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Power Parsing...some days you just need more power for your parser
Obviously the title can mean a bunch of different things, in this case we are merging two fun technologies: Microsoft PowerShell and Microsoft Log Parser . Here in MSCOM Operations, we are in the process of introducing Microsoft PowerShell into our environment...(read more)
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The Tasty Morsels Found In Dogfood… MSCOM OPS Top 10 Changes In IIS7.0
Dogfood….yummmm! Yes it is true, Microsoft.com has been running Beta 3 of Windows Server 2008 in production since June 12, 2007. What does that mean? 78 of 80 servers that host the www.microsoft.com website are running W2K8 Beta 3 and IIS7.0. Why only...(read more)
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Using SQL 2005 Snapshots As A Rollback Procedure
One of the great new features of SQL 2005 is database snapshots. With one simple transact SQL statement, you can provide your users with a read-only, static copy of their data. For example, you can take a snapshot on the last day of the month and users...(read more)
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Release Management: Building the Bridge
In the last post from the release management team, we talked about the strategic topic of developing the philosophy of RM being a bridge, and not a barrier, to the deployment and support of applications into the production environment. One of the items...(read more)
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MSCOM At TedchEd 2007 in Orlando...On Demand Viewing of Breakout Session
If you were unabel to make it to Orlando and were jsut dying to catch the MSCOM Operations Presentation Microsoft.com: Employing Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services 7 As A Next Generation Platform for SaaS Web Applications , here is...(read more)
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Gardening (on the Web Server)
While some people are born with a green thumb, others of us have the brown thumb that comes from working to get a garden to grow. While we dream of sweet fruits and crisp, fresh vegetables, sometimes all we get for our troubles is dirt under our fingernails....(read more)
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Pour Liquid Nitrogen On Your Ballooning Content…Dynamic Compression in IIS7.0
Most operational folk are heads down either fixing issues, implementing new changes, or preparing environments for upcoming changes and when work is not being done we are in meetings :-). Every once in a while it is good to pop our heads up and see what...(read more)
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Comparing Trends in Unmatched Timed Data
Introduction – Maybe You Have Been There Too Ok, this could be another pretty dry topic, but here we go anyway. More programmer talk, which can put normal people to sleep. J A while ago I came up with a programmatic solution to a challenge I had faced...(read more)
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How to Get SQL to Accept the Cert or A day (or two) in the life of an MSCOM Debug Engineer – Part 2
(Mr. Cert’s side of the story) Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. Nevertheless the day described by Mr. Debug in A day (or two) in the life of an MSCOM Debug Engineer was not one of them for me. If you already had the chance to read his...(read more)
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MSCOM Service Management – How to Use Metrics to Transform the Business
An example of a measured change In our first two articles we highlighted the importance of measurements and why opportunities identified in this manner many times face an uphill battle . To continue the thread of “Service Management in the real world”,...(read more)
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Release Management: A Bridge, Not A Barrier
For too many organizations, release management is viewed as nothing more than a roadblock to deployment. Instead of returning value to project and operations teams by promoting the development of standards and documentation that drive improvements to...(read more)
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Using Production Data to Test Can Make the Job Easier… But be Careful
Using production data is a smart way to test. It provides the most cost effective way to generate data for testing. This allows testers to spend more time focusing on writing good test cases rather than taxing their brains to generate meaningless information...(read more)
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Security In Cross Domain Web Services
(Eiditor's Note: This is part 1 of a multi part post on Cross Domain Web Service Security) So what is the problem? Today, small to big sized enterprises end up with multiple domains due to various technical and business reasons. Creating a forest trust...(read more)
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A day (or two) in the life of an MSCOM Debug Engineer
Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. Unfortunately you never know if a given day is one of them until you have someone walk in with a "quick problem". Usually these interruptions are easily deflected with a simple "What is the problem you...(read more)
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Imaginary Content - No Really!
When looking for ways to improve their site, the development team for MSDN.microsoft.com and Technet.microsoft.com wanted to be able to leverage a new feature set of ASP.NET - virtual path providers and dynamic compilation. What does a virtual path provider...(read more)