Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Corey Roussel

John Keith Bankston

Ziyi Wang

Kshamta Jerath

Sean Lamont Grant Livingston

Joel M Fillmore

Kimon Tsinteris

Lei Sun

William R Taylor

Patrick Simek

Michael H Ammerlaan

Balinder Malhi

Ankur Jauhari

Le Chang

Wei-qiang Guo

Randy David Thomson

Zohar Raz

Jian Zhang

Arulseelan Thiruppathi

Fuyuan Bie

Dylan Thomas Nunley

Brad Smith

Bharathwaj Raam Sampathkumar

Ivonne D Galvan Coiffier

Chong Yu

Guilherme Rodrigues Nogueira De Souza

In one embodiment, a network file management systemmay use a persistent metadata storeand an access control listto facilitate a batch rollout. The network file management systemmay maintain a content database. A network file management systemmay store a metadata set for the content databasein a separate persistent metadata store

Large scale network system upgrade

Techniques to perform gradual upgrades are described. An apparatus may include a database with a data set for a first version of an application program, and a computing device to couple to the database. The computing device may have a processor and memory, with the memory to store a first version of an application program, an installer program, and a gradual update engine. The processor may execute the installer program to install a second version of the application program, and said gradual update engine to convert the data set to a data schema used by the second version one data segment at a time. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to perform gradual upgrades

A diagnostic dashboard for web applications is provided. The dashboard is presented in a portion of a web page in response to activation of a control in form of a frame along with partially displayed web page contents. Designers and administrators are provided informative data to assist them in discovering root causes for page malfunctioning or slowness, and are enabled to access call stack and exception information in error messages.

Diagnostic dashboard for web pages

Technologies are described herein for generating and changing credentials of a service account. In one method, a credential schedule is retrieved. The credential schedule specifies when a plurality of credentials are scheduled to be changed. A determination is made whether a current credential associated with the service account is scheduled to be changed according to the credential schedule. Upon determining that the current credential is scheduled to be changed, at least part of a new credential is generated. The current credential is replaced with the new credential for the service account.

Generating and changing credentials of a service account

An extensible and automatically replicating server farm configuration management infrastructure is provided. A centralized configuration database stores all configuration data for the server farm. New configuration data can be added to the configuration database by extending a configuration object model without knowing or changing the schema of the configuration database. A synchronization mechanism is provided for each server in the server farm to automatically keep configuration data in the server farm synchronized across multiple servers in the server farm.

Extensible and automatically replicating server farm configuration management infrastructure

A system and method is provided that allows solutions for a server farm to be submitted to a centralized location in the server farm. The submitted solutions can be selected and scheduled for automatic deployment for all servers in the server farm. Deployed solutions can be retracted from the servers in the server farm. A damaged server or a new server in the server farm can be synchronized to have the same solutions that have been deployed across the server farm.

Solution deployment in a server farm

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