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Tell us your operational pain points!!

  • Artigo

Welcome to the Microsoft.com Operations Blog!

We are the operations team that runs all of the Microsoft.com sites.. WE WANT TO HELP YOU! Ask us your operational questions. Tell us what causes you to lose sleep at night. What causes you the most operational pain? Patch management? Consolidation? App Pool recycling? SQL replication? Tell us YOUR story. We have probably walked in your shoes before and we want to share our experiences with you.

 

After all this ain’t Rocket Science…IT’S OPERATIONS!

 

We are a bona fide Enterprise level Ops team. Anything that ends in *.Mirosoft.com we run. Windows Update, Microsoft Update, the Download center…our team keeps all this humming. We run the 4th largest web site in the world.. Here are some quick facts about what we run.

 

*.Microsoft.com:

  • 3 Data Centers
  • 1606 Data Center Servers
  • 506 Servers in Labs
  • 111 Web Sites
  • 1069 Databases
  • 1000’s of Web Applications
  • 80+Gbit/sec Network Traffic

WWW.Microsoft.com

  • 13 million unique users/day
  • 70 million page views per day
  • 10,000 requests/sec, 300 concurrent connection on 80 servers
  • 350 Vroots

 

Windows Update/Download:

  • 150 million unique client scans/day
  • 12,000 ASP.NET requests/sec
  • 500K concurrent connections
  • 1 Billion Downloads and7 50K client installs in 2 weeks (April 2006)
  • 4Gbit/sec Web Site Egress (Web Pages Only…No Downloads)
  • 20+ Billion Downloads in 2005…Routinely 150M+/Day

 

 

We have Systems Engineers that specialize in WEB Operations; SQL Operations; Debugging; Security & Architecture; Application On-Boarding & Hosting as well as Software Development Engineers. Let us help you. Ask us your questions.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    It looks like the team that runs all of the Microsoft.com sites have started a blog (http://blogs.technet.com/mscom/default.aspx). ...

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Saw this on Tony's blog, this should make good reading.
    http://blogs.technet.com/mscom/archive/2005/09/09/410523.asp...

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hej på er,
    Kolla in den här sidan - rätt häftiga fakta faktiskt. Det här kan jag som nerd tycka är för...

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Glad to see www.microsoft.com is using the latest Windows, IIS and .NET technologies.  It’s definitely a real-world enterprise environment.  It’s good to see that experience being shared.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Pssst. Keep this under you hat, and you didn't hear it from me, got it?
    The ops team at microsoft.com...

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I've just noticed this great blog from the Microsoft.com team.  Their first blog entry describes...

  • Anonymous
    September 09, 2005
    What are the top 10 scripts you use?
    What problem did you create the script to solve?
    What technology did you use to create the script?
    Can you share example scripts?
    Thanks in advance, having a way to pick the brains of the ms.com ops team is priceless.

  • Anonymous
    September 23, 2005
    Well, just curious if you folks will respond to tonyso's request for info on the various scripts you are using?

    Cheers

  • Anonymous
    September 27, 2005
    sorry,
    can't find any valid mailaddress to ms:

    Many important links on this page don't operate:
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/featured/iis/default.mspx

    e.g. 404-ERROR ON http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/abe22bd3-05d4-4f28-8f04-405d193339ee.mspx

  • Anonymous
    November 02, 2005
    I like this blog!

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    March 29, 2006
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    April 25, 2006
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