Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Darell D Macatangay

Patrick R Kabore

Burra Gopal

Zhongqin Wu

Ramanathan Somasundaram

Constantin Stanciu

Sean Squires

Kok Keong Soh

Francisco Javier Gutierrez Gutierrez

Krishna Raghava Mulubagilu Panduranga Rao

Diane K Rapp

Victor A Urnyshev

Jianhua Liu

Kai Zhu

Roberto C Taboada

Implementations of enhanced service monitoring technology are disclosed herein. In one example implementation, an online service is hosted in a data center environment. The data center environment includes computing facilities and an application executed on the computing facilities to provide at least a portion of the online service. The application includes a monitoring service that monitors the computing facilities and other resources running in the data center environment that provide at least another portion of the online service.

Monitoring and reporting performance of online services using a monitoring service native to the online service

Techniques for asynchronous site provisioning in distributed computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving a user request to initiate a provisioning process for a site. The user request can contain one or more specified features or functionalities for the site. The method also includes in response to the received user request from the user, performing provisioning of the site without provisioning for at least one of the specified features in the user request and providing the provisioned site for access by the user upon completion of performing provisioning of the site. The method further includes continuing provisioning the at least one of the specified features included in the user request while allowing the user to access the provided site without the at least one of the specified features via the computer network.

Asynchronous service provisioning in computing systems

A computing system includes at least one processor and memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the computing system to identify configuration data that defines computing functionality of a first service instance assigned to an end user tenant in the computing system, generate a test tenant comprising a second service instance provisioned with computing resources that are configured based on the configuration data, detect a technical issue in the first service instance, and generate the technical issue in the second service instance.

Automated creation of test tenants for data center technical issue detection

Implementations of enhanced service monitoring technology are disclosed herein. In one example implementation, a collaboration service is hosted in a data center environment. The data center environment includes computing facilities and a service application executed on the computing facilities to provide at least a portion of the collaboration service. The service application includes a monitoring service that monitors the computing facilities and other resources running in the data center environment that provide at least another portion of the collaboration service.

Monitoring and reporting performance of collaboration services using a monitoring service native to the collaboration service

Techniques for database selection during site provisioning in distributed computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving a user request for a site to be hosted on one or more nodes in the distributed computing system. In response to the received user request, one of the databases is selected by randomly selecting a set of databases from a list of available databases, determining a subset of databases each having a lower level of database load than the other databases from the set of databases, and randomly selecting one database from the subset of databases. The method further includes storing a configuration file for the site in the randomly selected one database to enable the site to be accessible, the configuration file containing data representing one or more of module loading control, security configuration, session state configuration, application language, or compilation setting of the site.

Database selection in distributed computing systems

A test tenant generation system comprises, in one example, a scheduling component configured to define a deployment schedule for deploying a plurality of test tenants, and a tenant deployment component configured to deploy the plurality of test tenants to a computing system based on the deployment schedule.

A computer system may provide zero-downtime, reversible, client-driven service migration to migrate a client from a current service to a new service. The computer system may configure the client to operate in a dual-write, old-read mode in which the client issues write requests to both the current service and the new service and issues read requests only to the current service. The computer system may configure the client to operate in a dual-write, new-read mode in which the client issues write requests to both the current service and the new service and issues read requests only to the new service.

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Darell D Macatangay