CMS Tracker commissioning and first operation experience

The CMS silicon strip tracker is the largest device of its type ever built. There are 24244 single-sided micro-strip sensors covering an active area of nearly 200 square meters. After a short introduction on the tracker, the program at the CMS tracker integration facility will be described. The strategy and results from the commissioning will be presented together with results on low-level detector performance. The general experience gained by operating the Tracker at different temperatures will be presented. This includes hardware aspects, acquisition software and infrastructures choices, or distributed data processing.