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SharePoint is leading Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals
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over 4 years ago
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Ayman El-Hattab
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Gartner recently published a report by Jim Murphy, Gene Phifer, Ray Valdes and Eric Knipp: the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. In the report, Microsoft not only maintains its Leadership ranking but moves into the #1 position on the report...
Requirement gathering for SharePoint solutions - Introduction
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over 4 years ago
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Muhammed Nabil
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It is a well known problem that developers working on a platform have the worst time in their life trying to map the user requirement to the platform capabilities, wasting countless hours in requirement gathering and wasting more time in re-building the...
Microsoft Hyper-v and Vmware Vsphere footprints
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over 4 years ago
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Mohamed Garrana
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The everlasting debate between Microsoft Hyper-v and VMware Vsphere . People always talk about FOOTPRINT and its performance impact, especially VMware they really like to talk about Microsoft having a large DISK footprint; please don’t get tricked...
HW and SW inventory Collection From (Active Directory or Txtfile) into Excel sheet (Powershell Script)
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over 4 years ago
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Mohamed Garrana
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i wrote this script a while ago , but i thought i'd reshare it . This can be very usefull if you are a sys admin and you are doing capacity planning or just trying to know your hardware or software inventory This is powershell script that connects...
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...
Invitation: Enterprise Developers Academy–Microsoft Egypt
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over 4 years ago
by
Ayman El-Hattab
Develop your expertise Get up to speed on all the latest tools available to enhance your skills and create new, innovative solutions. Develop your network Meet and interact with industry leaders and professionals...
TechEd Middle East Registration Opens
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over 4 years ago
by
Ayman El-Hattab
Registration is now open for TechEd Middle East 2011. Tech·Ed is Microsoft’s premier technical education event providing the most comprehensive technical training on Microsoft’s suite of products, technologies, solutions and services...
Cairo PDC10/MS3arab Community Launch
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over 4 years ago
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Ayman El-Hattab
Since 1991, the PDC has been the epicenter of Microsoft’s biggest platform announcements. This year will be no exception. Leading-edge developers and architects will gather in Redmond this October to hear firsthand from Microsoft’s leaders...
On Kerberos
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over 4 years ago
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khnidk
This one is not about how Kerberos work, rather it is about few things to watch out. If you want Kerberos literature check here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772815(WS.10).aspx Few things to watch out when working with Kerberos:...
WIF's Claims to Windows Token Service
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over 4 years ago
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khnidk
Windows authentication have been always fortified, which was for a good reason. Yet this fortification made some use cases impossible to happen here is one that sum it all: “ You have a service bus (or just service interface) that abstracts all...