Our hosting team at Microsoft is hiring ... so if you're a system or web administrator (or you know one), this is a unique opportunity to work with the IIS product team on a really cool project. We provide internal hosting in order to deploy and test the latest and greatest products. Come work on IIS 7, Windows Server code name "Longhorn" and the latest technologies in a hosted environment.
This position is for a system admin: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=34087690-818B-41BA-A8FA-A61FD0E731EB&start=1&interval=10.
Basically the sys/web admin needs to have solid experience web hosting with IIS or other web server products (VB.NET/C# programming skills a plus).
Feel free to submit your resume or contact us at iisnet@microsoft.com.
Most folks are aware that Windows Server 2003 R2 offers directory-based quotas, a great new feature that is better for some hosters than the volume/user based quotas in Windows 2003 Server RTM and SP1.
To get quota going in R2, generally you can just add a quota template that gives 150MB to each directory. This is a global template that applies to all folders on your E: drive, for example. But let's say you'd like to customize quotas for each customer's directory, if they pay for more disk space for example. Many times you would like to be able to do this programmatically from another machine.
To achieve this goal, you can use the command-line tools available (dirquota, filescrn or storrept) and run them remotely.
Here is an overview of the three tools. You can see that they have a /Remote:<Server> parameter allowing you to run them against a remote server from the command prompt.
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/r2/archive/2005/11/19/104.aspx
But there are also ways to call the executables remotely. Here are a few resources for running executables remotely, with WMI or ASP.NET.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/nov04/hey1115.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemDiagnosticsProcessClassTopic.asp
This is a small business starter kit. It offers a catalog of products, a news page, a people page and a testimonials page. You have a choice of reading this data from an XML file or a SQL database.
Go view it live and download it - let us know how you like it and if you think hosted customers will use it. Enjoy!
http://www.asp.net/downloads/starterkits/default.aspx?tabid=62#smallbusiness