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Desktop Virtualization
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over 4 years ago
by
ASadek
Microsoft Desktop Virtualization solutions help companies to reduce their total cost of ownership, increase business agility and continuity, enable anywhere access, and improve security and compliance. For companies new to desktop virtualization, deploying...
The Diagonal Warehouse Design
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Wagdy Ishac
1
Comment
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...
Microsoft leading the Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace through SharePoint
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Ayman El-Hattab
Microsoft moved forward considerably on the 2010 Social Software for the Workplace Magic Quadrant. Microsoft maintained its #1 position on the Ability to Execute axis and moved forward rather substantially on the Completeness of Vision axis, overtaking...
Windows 7 Features - BranchCache (Series 2)
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
ASadek
Driven by challenges of reducing the costs and complexity of Branch IT, organizations are seeking to centralize applications. However, as organizations centralize applications, the dependency on the availability and quality of the wide-area network (WAN...
Fun with Pipelining, Chaining & Linq – P2 (Actions from Text)
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
khnidk
In a previous post I created a pipeline & executed it using extension methods & Action<t> function pointer. From quickly reading the code you will realize that you are bound only by 2 things 1) You are bound by design time. All the pipelines...
Windows PowerShell: Why You Should Care?
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Sherif Talaat
If you're one of the IT Pro guys whose their daily tasks are the administration of a set of desktops, servers, printers and other IT infrastructure components whether its software or hardware, or you're a software developer who develops hundreds of lines...
Fun with Pipelining, Chaining & Linq – P1
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
khnidk
This is a long series of entries around rules processing & chaining. Bear with me :-) Pipelines are among my favorite method to express sequence of logic components to execute in response to business events like “save new customer”...
Windows 7 Features - Direct Access (Series 1)
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
ASadek
What is DirectAccess? DirectAccess allows remote users to securely access intranet shares, Web sites, and applications without connecting to a virtual private network (VPN). DirectAccess establishes bi-directional connectivity with a user’s intranet...
MEA Center of Expertise presenting in Microsoft Egypt Open Door 2-3 November
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over 4 years ago
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Marwan Tarek - MVP
Microsoft Egypt is organizing its Open Door event on 2 nd a nd 3rd of November 2010, it is big event arou nd Microsoft Technologies a nd targeting developers a nd ITPro . Microsoft MEA Center of Expertise will participate in the event with a bunch...
Get Manager approval in SharePoint Designer 2010 - Step by Step
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Muhammed Nabil
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A fundamental condition that I always encountered when gathering workflow requirement is to get the user's manager approval, a tedious amount of coding to connect to active directory retrieve user profile information, get his manager login name, pass...