[Reminder - Webcasts for IIS Customers this week] - Attend Live!

Hey all IIS folks~

The Microsoft IIS Webcast Team is extremely excited by this upcoming week
where we have 6 upcoming webcasts. We currently have a very real-world
series entitled: "A look inside Microsoft.com Operations." These include
some very cool topics listed below -

An Insiders Look At Microsoft.com
An IIS Webcast Series

The Internet is the most volatile network in the world. It is constantly
challenged by "hackers" who are content with causing chaos for Web
Administrators and Developers. The busiest web site in the world,
www.microsoft.com, is managed by a group of people who know what the term
"in the trenches" means. If you are interested in understanding how the
operations group at Microsoft.com does business then this webcast series if
for you. From one IT professional to another, find out how Microsoft.com
continues to lead the world in operational excellence and website
availability. The topics in this week long view of Microsoft.com operations
will include the architecture, replication and management of website
configuration and content, and network topology used to create a true "99.9"
availability rating.

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.

Monday Nov 7, 2005 11:30am
MSCOM- High Availability Architecture
Hear from the System Engineers who operate the highest scale IIS solutions
on the Internet; including www.Microsoft.com, Windows Update, MSDN/Technet,
Downloads, and more. They will share their web hosting secrets for High
Availability architectures, including the areas surrounding Network
Security, Cluster & Host Level Load Balancing, and Web & Database server
distributions.

Tuesday Nov 8, 2005 9:30am
MSCOM- Configuration Management of Web Farms
Get 1-on-1 with Sr. System Engineers responsible for running
www.Microsoft.com and Windows Update to see how they perform scripted
administration and deployment of configuration settings across the
infrastructure. Engineers will have sample scripts and provide visibility
into how they leverage various commands which release with Windows Server
2003 and IIS 6.0.

Wednesday Nov 9, 2005 11:30am
MSCOM- Change & Release Management Strategies
Microsoft.com Operations will provide insight into how they handle and
manage software updates; such as Operating System deployments, Service
Pack's
& Security Patches. They will also cover the approach used to manage
application releases to environments, and strategies leveraged with the
Product Development organizations (Development, Test & Program Mgmt)
regarding Software Development Release Cycle (SDLC)

Thursday Nov 10, 2005 11:30am
MSCOM- Monitoring & Management of Enterprise Platform
Microsoft.com Operations is currently responsible for managing more than
2000 Windows Servers hosted in 3 remote Data Centers. Partner up with their
Sr. Engineers to understand how they leverage a suite of technologies and
operational processes to establish Asset Management, Event / Log /
Performance Data Collection and Reporting, as well System & Application
level uptime analysis. Session will include how they leverage Active
Directory and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) within the overall
framework of their solution.

Friday Nov 11, 2005 11:30am
MSCOM - Troubleshooting & Debugging Web Hosting Environments
Dive under the hood with our Sr. System Engineers at Microsoft.com
Operations to see how they troubleshoot and debug the array of hosted
ASP.NET applications and database driven systems. They will provide "How
To" real life scenarios covering commonly leveraged tools such as
LogParser, Server Performance Advisor (SPA), Performance Monitor, Network
Monitor, and more. The team will also cover some common debug dump analytic
procedures used when those tools and corresponding data have not identified
root cause of a problem.

We also have another topic that will dive directly into Server Performance
Advisor --

Tuesday Nov 8, 2005 11:30am
Finding IIS Bottlenecks using Server Performance Advisor
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) has been a "black box" for
many versions now. Have you had the urge to open it up? IIS 6.0 on Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 delivers a strong infrastructure for finding problems
with Web applications. Using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
Tracing for Windows (ETW), the Server Performance Advisor (SPA) can compile
statistical data on your Web applications for later review. This webcast
covers the basics around SPA and ETW and looks at how to set up, configure,
and analyze the data collected by SPA.

We hope to see you next week for an exciting week!

Thanks,

IIS Webcast Team