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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:34 AM

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 Life Cycle). Someone’s great idea was turned into a project that was assigned human resources with the ultimate marching orders of simply “Get’er Done”.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:01 PM

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 this tool. We use it to parse IIS Logs, NetMon logs, NT Event logs, HTTP… in fact I can’t think of log that I ever met that LogParser could not parse.
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Monday, October 17, 2005 10:51 AM

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 – Used for tracking down which processes are accessing particular files or particular drives on your system.http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html 
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:36 PM

MSCOM Ops Webcast Week...Sign Up Links

Here are the links to sign up for the upcoming webcast series. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx, then click on the More live webcasts… link at the bottom of the page scroll to the date of the event. We hope hope you can join us!!
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:22 AM

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 scratching the surface.   WCAT (Web Capacity Analysis Tool – Very useful web application stress tool for generating stress against a particular URL
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:42 AM

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 question was: Do you have any good LogParser tricks?   and your topic suggestions: Scripting, Tools and Utilities   This will most
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:55 AM

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 actually have to report out to somebody on what the heck the environment that you manage is doing. So do we. Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly. Oh
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Monday, October 10, 2005 3:19 PM

Top 10 Topics for MSCOM Ops…How Are We Organized?

More answers for you... Question: What representation does Operations have within the MS management structure? MSCOM Operations is part of the Windows Division within Microsoft.  It is a team of roughly 75 Full Time Employees (FTE) and 20 Contingent
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Thursday, October 06, 2005 12:26 PM

Microsoft.com Webcast Week November 7-11, 2005 …Mark your calendars!!

We are pleased and very excited to be able to announce this upcoming week long series of webcast this November. Here are the links to sign up for the upcoming webcast series. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx, then click on the
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Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:31 AM

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 'must-have' software product that isn't produced by MS? Good question. I would have to say Keynote. We use this 3rd party, (O/S and platform agnostic),
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:30 AM

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 responsive as we can. We got a great list of questions/topics that we have divided them up among our team. As the answers get back to us we will post them…which
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Monday, October 03, 2005 3:42 PM

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; trying to determine if we should turn it in a planter or use it as a projectile to launch from a Trebuchet <a real Venus or Mars moment> when the
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