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How to add Desktop Experience feature on Windows Server 2012 “Server 8 Beta”
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over 2 years ago
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Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
59
Comments
As desktop Experience feature is being relocated to be under User interface and infrastructure many people might believe it’s no longer there ! but it’s and below screenshot shows the exact location of desktop experience feature.
Install and Download SharePoint 2013 prerequisites offline (manually)
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Issa Ayyash
44
Comments
This article applies in a situation when you don’t have internet access in your SharePoint server , I have placed all the direct download links for the installers you might need. This article assumes you are having a new fresh installation of...
SharePoint 2013 Backup with PowerShell and Task Scheduler for beginners
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Yousef Omar
29
Comments
You can do Everything with PowerShell - yes everything - and SharePoint is no exception. In this post for beginners, I will show you how to create tasks for the Task Scheduler to automate your SharePoint backups with PowerShell. First, to backup your...
Part 4: Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohammad Saeed Abdelaziz
29
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In part 1 we covered the deployments steps for Exchange 2013, in Part 2 of this series we covered Exchange 2013 configurations and testing, in part 3 started our migration process. In this final post we will walk through the final steps in migration,...
Office Web Apps 2013 multi servers (NLB) Installation and Deployment for SharePoint 2013 step by step guide
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Issa Ayyash
22
Comments
This is a step by step guide on how to install Office Web Apps 2013 multi servers farm (using windows NLB and http) and how to configure it with SharePoint 2013. In my next post I will talk about how to configure Office Web Apps 2013 using NLB and https...
Windows Server 2012 Direct Access Part 2–How to Build a Test Lab
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over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
18
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Here is the second part of Windows Server 2012 Direct Access blog series. Part1: http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/05/03/windows-server-2012-direct-access-part-1-what-s-new.aspx In the first post we discussed what’s new and what are the design...
Solved: How to move a Hyper-V virtual machine without Exporting it first
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
21
Comments
So you have created many virtual machines in Hyper-V manager and suddenly you want to move one of them in a new HDD or just rename the folder holding it, you will find that this is not a trivial task! Hyper-V management service holds an open handle to...
Windows Server 2012 Direct Access – Part 1 What’s New
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Anil_Erduran
17
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Direct Access feature was introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Client computers. Direct Access overcomes the limitations of VPNs by automatically establishing a bi-directional connection from client computers to the corporate network so...
Exchange 2010 Cross-Forest Migration Step by Step Guide – Part I
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Mohamed Marzouk [MSFT]
14
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This Guide will explain the detailed steps required to do cross forest migration from source forest running Exchange 2003 to target forest running Exchange 2010. Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) will be used to migrate user accounts as well...
SQL 2012 Failover Cluster Build (Step by Step) – Part 1: Installing SQL 2012
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over 1 year ago
by
Mecit Atmaca
24
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Introduction Recently, my engagements were related to SQL and 2 of which were to build SQL failover clusters on based on Windows 2008R2/SQL 2008R2 SP1 and Windows 2012/SQL 2012 SP1. In this post, I will share with you my SQL Server 2012 Failover clustering...
Part 1: Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohammad Saeed Abdelaziz
24
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In this article series we will explain and go through all the steps to migrate from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013. The series consists of four Parts: Part 1: Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration Part 2: Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration...
Exchange 2010 Cross-Forest Migration Step by Step Guide – Part III
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Mohamed Marzouk [MSFT]
15
Comments
In this part of Cross-Forest Migration Guide we will solve the second challenge but before that let’s take a look again on the current environment: Second Challenge: Move Mailbox Error: As explained in Part II, we will use ADMT first to migrate...
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration (step by step) – Part 1 “Pre-Build”
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Maged Ezzat
12
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In this post series I will go through detailed step by step (with screenshots) related to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration that IT Administrator or technical consultant will need to build Operations Manager 2007...
Prepare SharePoint Farm – Part 3 Prepare NLB for SharePoint Web Front End WFE Servers
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Issa Ayyash
14
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Part 1 - Prepare Windows Cluster Part 2 - Install and configure SQL Cluster part 4 - Install and configure SharePoint farm (3-tier) This post demonstrate a step by step NLB configuration , how to prepare a NLB cluster to be used later on as...
BizTalk ESB: Step by Step Walkthrough Creating a Custom Orchestration Service
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over 3 years ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
13
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Introduction The BizTalk ESB toolkit is an implementation of an enterprise service bus messaging standard. It allows for separation between message content, processes implementation, and process configuration. This is using what is called ESB itineraries...
Prepare SharePoint Farm – Part 4 Install and Configure SharePoint farm (3 -tier)
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Issa Ayyash
14
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In previous posts , we have configured windows cluster, SQL cluster, and NLB for the WFE servers. Part 1 - Prepare Windows Cluster Part 2 - Install and configure SQL Cluster Part 3 - Install and Configure NLB on WFE In this post we will perform...
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration (step by step) – Part 4 “Configure GPO for SCOM”
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Maged Ezzat
10
Comments
In this post series I will go through detailed step by step (with screenshots) related to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration that IT Administrator or technical consultant will need to build Operations Manager 2007...
SharePoint Provider Hosted App Walkthrough: Part 1 Preparation
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
12
Comments
SharePoint and office development model is changing to a new App model. This is the new development model for SharePoint. In this blog series I will walk you through creating a provider hosted SharePoint App that is hosted in an App part. This will show...
Configuring SharePoint 2013 Search Topology
Posted
3 months ago
by
Issa Ayyash
14
Comments
Introduction When creating the Search Service application , a default topology will be built automatically where all Search components are assigned to the server which is running the Central Administration, in multi servers farm scenario you need to...
InfoPath 2010 Paging (without coding)
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over 1 year ago
by
Ahmad Shahin
13
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Introduction In this post I will try to show you how to implement a simple paging mechanism using InfoPath 2010. This approach is useful if you are considering a quick & fast solution to handle InfoPath Repeating Tables (or sections) that returns...
SharePoint 2010 – Failed to create the configuration database
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Yousef Omar
8
Comments
Installed SharePoint Server 2010 on my Windows 7 local machine. Once the installation completed, the configuration wizard launched, reached step 3 (creating the configuration database), and halted with the following error message. Failed to create...
Cannot Check-out or edit documents in SharePoint 2010
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Ahmed Nagy
8
Comments
You may encounter an issue with SharePoint 2010 document libraries that prevents users from check-out or edit documents in the document library. The issue occurs when you break the security inheritance of the document library. Regardless of what permission...
Migrate users from forms based authentication to SharePoint 2010 claim based
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Ahmed Nagy
8
Comments
During migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 you will need to migrate the users as well. the most "unclear" part is how to migrate Forms based users to claim based authentication. The internal names stored in SharePoint are different so you will be unable...
Implementing Dynamic Authorization for a WCF service using SQL providers
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
8
Comments
Using the ASP.NET SQL membership provider to authenticate and authorize calls to WCF services is not an uncommon scenario. But the problem is in the authorization part. Usually to authorize access to WCF service methods this is done using static hard...
InfoPath forms in SharePoint 2010 (Document based and list based forms) Step by Step samples and comparison (Part1)
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Hisham Samara
7
Comments
Technorati Tags: Sharepoint.Infopath , 2010 , List based , document based , step by step Data capture Forms in SharePoint 2010 lists can be created and customized using InfoPath forms in two ways; List based Forms and Document based forms, we will cover...
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