Capacity Planning
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In addition to the Microsoft software used to run the site, the microsoft.com team has developed a few internal content management utilities by using Microsoft® Visual Basic® and Microsoft® Access. For example, a content-tracking tool scans the site each day and fills a database with information about each of the 250,000 HTML and ASP pages, including where the links on each page point. When a page is to be deleted, a check of the database shows other pages that point to that page. Links on the other pages can be changed before the page is deleted, so someone viewing them won’t find broken links.
Another document management tool keeps track of who is responsible for each page and when the page was sent to the servers. Even with thorough testing, problems—such as errors in ASP pages—sometimes get through and are difficult to pinpoint among 250,000 pages of content. The tool provides a list of pages sent to the servers shortly before the problem appeared, narrowing the number that have to be investigated.