MOM does provide all of the facilities we need for collections, but the experience of working with (often around) MOM is like taunting the Marquis De Sade. First there is the issue of scale and its relation to total cost of ownership (TCO). With...

I hate writing performance reviews. Not so much writing feedback for my employees, but writing my own. I finished the first draft on Friday, but now I'm working on the second. *sigh* Scott

So without going too deep into the gory details, as I've mentioned before my team writes tools to support the Operations team for Microsoft.com. My team and I have worked in this space for quite a while and have a pretty good idea of the needs of our...

As an Operations Development Team we are task with a myriad of problems to solve in the most efficient manner possible while adhering to the tenets of our group, organization and company. To that end we often find ourselves in a quandary of direction...

Okay, I need to take a moment a welcome a long time friend, Kimberly Tripp to the world of blogging. Many of you already know Kimberly, but for those who do not, she is one of the most talented and experienced SQL Server professionals in the world. Many...

I made mention of this tool in my last post and decided that it might be helpful for people who have installed (or are considering installing) the tool to know exactly what it considers to be a best practice. In my travels around the Internet recently...

As I mentioned in my first post, I really don't have that much to say. It would seem that my team even has less to say about the life and times of an Operations Tools guy. It's surprising really. They are quite the vocal group but it seems they are a...