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Lync PowerPack Official Release
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over 3 years ago
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Amr.Hamdy
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The Lync team has released these great additional features. The Lync Power Pack applications are being made available as part of the broader Lync Adoption and Training Kit . With this release of the Power Pack, five new applications join the previously...
How to run PowerShell script from CMD
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over 3 years ago
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Raymond Elias - volta82
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You will find below example how to run PowerShell script from CMD or in windows schedule task 1 C:\>powershell "& 'c:\scripts\Active Directory\CreateNewUser.ps1'"
PowerShell Command to create computer account in Active Directory
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over 3 years ago
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Raymond Elias - volta82
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This just simple command to create new AD computer in active directory New -ADComputer -Name voltacomputer -SAMAccountName voltasama -Description testcomputer -DNSHostName voltacomputer.coex.com
PowerShell script list and uninstall programs remotely or local machines using Primalforms to
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over 3 years ago
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Raymond Elias - volta82
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#Generated Form Function function GenerateForm { ######################################################################## # Code Generated By: SAPIEN Technologies PrimalForms (Community Edition) v1.0.8.0 # Generated On: 4/15/2011 9:34 PM # Author...
PowerShell scripts – delete computer account in Active Directory
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over 3 years ago
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Raymond Elias - volta82
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$dom = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::GetCurrentDomain() $root = $dom.GetDirectoryEntry() $search = [System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher]$root $search.filter = "(&(objectclass=computer)(name=windowsserver))" $search.findall...
How To: Access XML WebService using Windows PowerShell
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over 3 years ago
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Sherif Talaat
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In the next few lines I'll show you how to access any XML WebService in a few seconds using Windows PowerShell. Windows PowerShell has a cmdlet called " New-WebServiceProxy ". This cmdlet create a WebService proxy object that connects to the WebService...
Exchange 2010 Interorg Freebusy without using Federation Gateway
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over 3 years ago
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Raymond Elias - volta82
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As long as autodiscover and EWS is working. Create account without mailbox on both domains (i.e.ID: domainx.com\Freebusy, Pass: P@ssw0rd On Coex.com Set-AvailabilityConfig -OrgWideAccount “domain1.com\freebusy” $a = get-credential...
Bringing the Transaction mode with SSIS into reality.
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over 3 years ago
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Wagdy Ishac
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Isn’t it a desirable request to run your Data flow Tasks into Transaction Mode that rolls back if something wrong happened in the middle. Will the functionality is there but you’ll need some configuration to bring it into life. Let’s...
Powershell Script get group members and check for users that are not enabled for lync and enable these users using e-mail address
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over 3 years ago
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Raymond Elias - volta82
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#This script get group members and check for users that is not enabled for lync and enable these users using e-mail address (PC to PC not enterprise voice) 01 Import -Module activedirectory 02 Import -Module...
Jumping between database Name and ID in SQL Server
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over 3 years ago
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Wagdy Ishac
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If you're using DMVs or quering the master Database, you'll need to know your database id, and some query results returned with Database Id and your want to know is this my database ? a quick jumping between database id and name From ID to Name...
Welcome to Microsoft Center of Expertise (COEX) Blogging Experience
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over 4 years ago
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khnidk
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Who are we? We are a 60+ technology enthusiasts helping Microsoft customers around Middle-East & Africa region. We bridge Microsoft tools & technologies to their businesses. Our aim is to solve customer business problems using Microsoft...
Refreshing or Filtering Data in Published Excel Services Workbooks [SharePoint 2010]
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over 4 years ago
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Ayman El-Hattab
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This is Ayman El-Hattab , a Regional Technology Solution Professional (Collaboration Platform) from MEA Center of Expertise. I'm also a SharePoint MVP, active blogger, published author and a community fanatic. I'm really so excited to be a part of MEA...
Creating a host-named site collection programmatically
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over 4 years ago
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Ayman El-Hattab
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A host header is a third piece of information that you can use in addition to the IP address and port number to uniquely identify a Web domain or, as Microsoft calls it, an application server. In SharePoint 2010, You can apply host headers at two different...
Recursive and Folder-Scoped LINQ Queries in SharePoint 2010
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over 4 years ago
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Ayman El-Hattab
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As you might experienced in SharePoint 2007, a CAML query is by default non recursive. In other words, if you execute a CAML query, you will end up with items from the list root folder. This is still the same in SharePoint 2010. You have to define extra...
Engage in SharePoint 2010 Development
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over 4 years ago
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Mohamed Yehia Abdul Kader
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SharePoint 2010 provides a broad a unique set of integrated capabilities, within a unified infrastructure to allow organizations share data and information on different types of sites including intranets, extranets and internet facing sites scaling...
The Diagonal Warehouse Design
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over 4 years ago
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Wagdy Ishac
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Have you ever been in a situation when designing your warehouse where you had some measures that could not be grouped together due to dimensionality differences? A few measures that you can’t put into one Fact and of course, like me, you hate the...
SharePoint 2010 Architecture Slides–From Ignite Training
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over 4 years ago
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Ayman El-Hattab
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During my SharePoint 2010 Ignite Training for developers @ Microsoft Egypt, I delivered two Architecture sessions; I’m sharing the slides here. First Session: SharePoint 2010 Web Application Architecture View on PowerPoint Web Apps View...
Lync Server - Useful Links
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over 4 years ago
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Amr.Hamdy
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The Lync Server Open Interoperability Program is now available http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/gg131938.aspx Other useful Links: - Hardware Requirements. Link - Bandwidth Table. Link - Lync New features – server side. Link...
Adopt and Deploy Lync with Device Replacement program- Preserving Customer investments
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over 4 years ago
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Amr.Hamdy
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Here is another program from Microsoft to help customers adopt and deploy Lync ; Device Replacement . We are partnering with Vology ( http://www.vds.com ) & Cxtec ( http://www.cxtec.com ) to buy/replace/trade-in customers old phones…so...
Meet Mostafa Yousry! November's Hyper-V Guru
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over 1 year ago
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FaridaSHERIF
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1 -Mostafa, can you please introduce yourself to our readers? I have been working in the IT business for over 7 years now. I started as a Senior Technical Service Engineer. My responsibility was building Datacenters, such as Servers, Storage Systems...
Hyper-V Replica Runbooks Example
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over 1 year ago
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Aly Ghoneim
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I've just came across this amazing set of Hyper-V Replica Runbooks. Give it a try and let me know how it went. http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Orchestrated-HVR-Planned-5ebecfc1 Enjoy!
Get to Know Ahmed Afifi, our October (and first) CoEx IT guru
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over 1 year ago
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FaridaSHERIF
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1-Ahmed, can you please introduce yourself to our readers? I graduated from The American University in Cairo in 2007; Majoring computer science and minoring Business Administration. I have been working on the technical sales and consultation side of...
Compare Hotfixes installed on 2 computer using PowerShell
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over 3 years ago
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Raymond Elias - volta82
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function hotfixcompare ($computer1, $computer2) { $node1 = Get-HotFix -ComputerName $computer1 $node2 = Get-HotFix -ComputerName $computer2 Compare-Object -ReferenceObject $node1 -DifferenceObject $node2 -Property HotFixID } hotfixcompare ex01 lyncse...
Guides étape par étape de la série « Déploiement de Test UC15 » des Communications Unifiées
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over 1 year ago
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Youssef El Itreby
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Introduction et aperçu du Déploiement de Test UC15 Ces guides étape par étape vont vous permettre d'acquérir une expérience pratique avec les nouveaux solutions et technologies des communications unifiées...
Windows Azure Training Kit - August 2012
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over 2 years ago
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Hosam Kamel
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Windows Azure Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content to help you learn how to use Windows Azure. August 2012 Update The August 2012 update of the Windows Azure Training Kit includes 41 hands-on labs and 35 presentations...
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