Microsoft.com Operations Team Blog

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)

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)

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)

(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)

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)

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)

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)

(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)