Microsoft.com Operations

Welcome! We are the Microsoft.com Engineering Operations team that architects, deploys, manages and sustains highly available, highly scalable and highly secure Web and SQL infrastructures. By the way, we do this while being very early adopters of new Microsoft technologies. Explore our real world, in-the-trenches engineering resources that have resulted from running some of the largest corporate web sites in the world: www.microsoft.com, Microsoft Update, Download Center, MSDN and TechNet.

Getting Started

Adopting Early Microsoft Technology
Learn about our best practices and experiences as early adopters of the latest Microsoft technology.

Configuring Early Technology at Microsoft.com
Take an inside look at how we configure IIS 7.0 on our Web servers.

Deploying Early Technology at Microsoft.com
Discover how MSCOM deploys IIS 7.0 to Web servers throughout our sites.

Featured Content

Microsoft.com Operations Virtualizes MSDN and TechNet on Hyper-V
Learn how the Microsoft.com Operations Team successfully virtualized MSDN and TechNet on Hyper-V. Topics covered include how Hyper-V Beta and Hyper-V RC0 were deployed, the general architecture used for the deployment and the lessons learned by the Microsoft.com Operations Team.
Wednesday, May 21

Migrating a Large, High-Volume Web Site to Internet Information Services 7.0
Examine how Internet Information Services 7.0 in Windows Server 2008 provides management, security, performance and extensibility improvements when Windows Server is deployed to host and manage applications and services that run on the server and over the Web.
Wednesday, May 21

Introduction to the Microsoft.com Engineering Operations Team
Introduces the Microsoft.com Engineering Operations team, which is made up of systems engineers who support some of the largest and most heavily visited sites on the Internet, and describes the architectural infrastructure of some of the properties we support, including Microsoft.com, Microsoft Update, MSDN and TechNet.
Wednesday, May 21

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About Microsoft.com Operations

Our Mission

Achieve the highest availability on the Internet for the sites we support while showcasing Microsoft technologies.
Provide valuable feedback to product groups based on very early adoption of Microsoft products.
Share our best practices with Microsoft customers.

Quick Facts

As one of the largest and most heavily visited sites on the Internet, Microsoft.com:

Averages 56 million unique visits monthly in the U.S.
Averages 250 million unique visits monthly worldwide.
Generates 70 million page views daily.
Averages 15,000 connections per second.
Maintains an average of 35,000 concurrent connections to a total of 80 Web servers.

Microsoft.com Operations Team Blog

The Mystery of the Missing Process Performance Counter in Perfmon
One typical day I receive a request from a performance tester who is trying to collect some baseline production data about www.microsoft.com , the request seemed simple collect a couple of performance... more

SE Tips and Tricks -- Save aTS Session Run Remote... Find Hyper V information
Editors Note: One the System Engineers that run the servers that host www.Microsoft.com told me that he wanted to start posting some of the methods and tips and tricks that they use when managing one... more

Microsoft.com Operations Performance Analysis of IIS 7.0/Windows Server 2008
Now that Windows Server 2008 has been released earlier this year many enterprises are assessing the value proposition of moving to the Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0. As an IT Pro or decision maker i... more

New IIS 7.0 White Paper…Internet Information Services 7.0 in Windows Server 2008 Provides an Improved Web and Application Platform
This paper discusses the management, security, performance and extensibility improvements when Windows Server 2008 is deployed to host and manage applications and services that run on the server and/o... more

Modern .NET Development and The Joy of Simple LINQ to SQL
Introduction – Modern .NET Development It took me a while to realize it, but Microsoft .NET application development has significantly evolved in the past year and a half. This is not your dad’s .NET .... more

Microsoft.com Engineering Operations Forum

read/write data to a pci express device
how to read/write data from a pci express device; is the memory or io space is utilized for this purpose?

Sunday, Jul 5

HID Non-User Input Data Filter
Has anybody, anywhere managed to solve this infuriating HID Non-User Input Filter problem? Windows update constantly detects the fact that it needs updating but fails every single time to install it.... more
Saturday, Jul 4

Trial Over
My Microsoft Word 2007 trial has expired, and I keep typing in the correct Product Key number, it accepts this and tells me to close all Microsoft documents and then restart them to be able to use it... more
Saturday, Jul 4

account lock out
hi guys, please help with my problem. what does this mean. Alert on SRVOAK at 7/3/2009 1:16:35 PM An account was locked out due to multiple failed logon attempts that occurred in a short period of tim... more
Friday, Jul 3

Error 0x80040707...
Error Number: 0x80040707
Description: Dll function call crashed: devsetup.Install
Setup will now terminate.
I am facing this error message while installing reliance data card in a laptop
Wednesday, Jul 1

Downloads

Videos and Webcasts

TechEd On Demand Viewing Breakout Session
From the 2007 breakout session in Orlando, Florida.