Optimizing Bandwidth at Microsoft
PUBLISHED June 2004. To successfully manage wide area network demand and escalating operating costs at Microsoft, Microsoft IT assembled a small, dedicated team, tasked with identifying and implementing ways to improve engineering, operating, and management efficiencies for overall bandwidth consumption.
Optimizing Bandwidth at Microsoft
Optimizing Bandwidth at Microsoft
PUBLISHED June 2002. HRWeb is an integrated suite of three intranet portal products that provides human resources (HR) information to Microsoft employees.
HRWeb
HRWeb
PUBLISHED June 2003. Discussion of how Microsoft uses the Terminal Server component on five computers running Windows Server 2003 to centrally host a financial forecasting application for up to 2,700 users worldwide.
Hosting an Enterprise Financial Forecasting Application with Terminal Server
Hosting an Enterprise Financial Forecasting Application with Terminal Server
PUBLISHED January 2004. Discussion on how Microsoft created an application called Order Management (OM)—based on Microsoft technology—to provide an organization-wide e-commerce standard.
Managing Online Software Sales at Microsoft
Managing Online Software Sales at Microsoft
Overview of Microsoft IT's two-stage backup and restore solution.
Messaging Backup and Restore at Microsoft
Messaging Backup and Restore at Microsoft
This tool analyzes your Lotus Notes/Domino Applications and is used for developing an application migration and coexistence plan.
Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino Beta
Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino Beta
Microsoft has announced plans to make several key default changes to Internet Explorer 7's security zones to further harden the browser against attacks.
China Rising Microsoft to Further Lock Down IE7
China Rising Microsoft to Further Lock Down IE7
eBay will not become a buzzing marketplace for malicious code, as it has for computers, antiques, ipods and geegaws of all sorts.
eBay Pulls Auction for Microsoft Vulnerability
eBay Pulls Auction for Microsoft Vulnerability
The Threats and Countermeasures guide provides you with a reference to all security settings that provide countermeasures for specific threats against current versions of the Microsoft
Windows
operating systems.
Threats and Countermeasures Guide
Windows
operating systems.Threats and Countermeasures Guide
PUBLISHED July 2003. Overview of how Microsoft IT uses the Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Management Pack for Exchange Server 2003 to manage the messaging environment.
Monitoring Messaging at Microsoft
Monitoring Messaging at Microsoft
NBC plans to purchase a controlling stake in the MSNBC channel, but the companies continue to share MSNBC.com equally.
Microsoft sheds control of its cable network
Microsoft sheds control of its cable network
PUBLISHED June 2004. Deploying a Worldwide Site Consolidation Solution for Exchange Server 2003 at Microsoft. Detailed discussion on how Microsoft IT used Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Office System 2003 to enable a consolidation of Exchange sites from 75 to just seven worldwide.
Deploying a Worldwide Site Consolidation Solution for Exchange Server 2003 at Microsoft
Deploying a Worldwide Site Consolidation Solution for Exchange Server 2003 at Microsoft
PUBLISHED June 2004. High level overview of Microsoft IT's server and data center consolidation effort, which has resulted in a 40 percent overall spending reduction and a 54 percent site reduction.
Server and Data Center Consolidation: Microsoft IT Enhances Availability, Performance, and Cost Savings
Server and Data Center Consolidation: Microsoft IT Enhances Availability, Performance, and Cost Savings
PUBLISHED May 2004. Discussion on how Microsoft IT developed and deployed an internal Web services solution to provide an enterprise infrastructure for managing Web services across line-of-business applications at Microsoft.
Building and Deploying an Enterprise-Quality Management Solution for Web Services
Building and Deploying an Enterprise-Quality Management Solution for Web Services
Microsoft and Google have resolved the contention over Google's hiring of former Microsoft vice president Kai-Fu Lee.
Microsoft, Google and Lee Settle Hiring Dispute
Microsoft, Google and Lee Settle Hiring Dispute
Microsoft and Google have resolved the contention over Google's hiring of former Microsoft vice president Kai-Fu Lee.
Microsoft, Google and Lee Settle Down
Microsoft, Google and Lee Settle Down
Technical discussion on the process that Microsoft IT uses to plan, develop, and deploy Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) management packs for internal line of business (LOB) applications.
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Custom Management Pack Development at Microsoft
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Custom Management Pack Development at Microsoft
Test kit for portable media player vendors to establish compliance with PlaysForSure.
PlaysForSure Portable Device Test Kit
PlaysForSure Portable Device Test Kit
The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 System View Map shows the key system views included in SQL Server 2005, and the relationships between them.
SQL Server 2005 System View Map
SQL Server 2005 System View Map