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Hyper-V Resource Metering in Windows server 2012 “Server 8 Beta”

Posted over 2 years ago

by Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
- 5 Comments
IT organizations need tools to charge back business units that they support while providing the business units with the right amount of resources to match their needs. For hosting providers, it is equally important to issue chargebacks based on...
Prepare SharePoint Farm – Part 1 Prepare Windows Cluster

Posted over 2 years ago

by Issa Ayyash
- 4 Comments
This part demonstrate how to configure windows cluster for two server, to be used as SQL Cluster. Before you start · You need to have two network adapters on each node, one Public and one Private(for heartbeat communication). ·...
SharePoint 2010 People Search using Metadata

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 4 Comments
The scenario is simple; what you want is to configure people search and allow that to search using a custom metadata property that is being populated into the user profiles from an external system like a BCS system. I will dedicate several posts for configuring...
App-V 4.6 step by step installation guide: Part 2

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohammed Saad MEA
- 4 Comments
2.1.4 SQL Deployment Open the SQL server 2008 RTM installation and choose “New SQL Server Failover cluster installation” When till the setup support tools are installed. Choose enter the product key and make sure you have a valid...
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration (step by step) – Part 3 “Installing Root Management Server”

Posted over 4 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
- 4 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...
Using SharePoint 2010 Word Automation Services to convert Word documents to PDF files

Posted over 3 years ago

by Ahmed Nagy
- 4 Comments
A very interesting feature of SharePoint 2010 is the Word automation services. Word automation services allows you to convert between multiple document formats which runs as a batch job. This is very useful in many server side scenarios where customers...
SharePoint Workflow error: workflow is automatically cancelled

Posted over 3 years ago

by Ahmed Nagy
- 5 Comments
Recently I ran into a strange issue with out-of-the-box SharePoint workflow. Once the workflow is started, the SharePoint automatically cancels the workflow and the workflow outcomes becomes as "access denied", the description you see is "The workflow...
Manage your Windows 7 deployment with MAC Addresses

Posted over 3 years ago

by Elie BouIssa
- 4 Comments
I have been asked a number of times on the possibility of allowing or denying Windows 7 installation to specific MAC addresses. If you are performing a light touch installation (LTI) using MDT, you can append the MAC address to your customsettings...
SQL 2012 Failover Cluster Build (Step by Step) – Part 2: Adding a New Node

Posted over 1 year ago

by Mecit Atmaca
- 4 Comments
Introduction This is my 2nd post of the series of building SQL failover cluster. This post covers adding second node to the SQL Server 2012 failover cluster that is created in Part 1. Please refer to the 1st part for understanding the context of this...
SQL 2012 Failover Cluster Build (Step by Step) – Part 3:Adding a New Instance

Posted over 1 year ago

by Mecit Atmaca
- 6 Comments
Introduction This is my 3rd and last post of the series of building SQL Server 2012 failover cluster. This will cover the steps adding a new named database instance to the cluster that is already created. Please refer to the 1st part for understanding...
SharePoint Group Calendar, Adding default users

Posted over 1 year ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 18 Comments
The Problem One feature of SharePoint is to create a calendar and make it a group calendar. This allows the user to see the schedule of list of people at the same time on the same view as per the image below. To configure the Calendar as a group Calendar...
Part 3: Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration

Posted over 1 year ago

by Mohammad Saeed Abdelaziz
- 17 Comments
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 this part we will start our migration. Make sure to start these configuration outside business hours, also plan...
BizTalk Cop installation and configuration for VS 2012

Posted over 1 year ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 5 Comments
I faced a requirement today that I need to enable some BizTalk best practices and create a custom check-in policy for these practices while the developers are checking in code. While searching the internet I found the BizTalk Cop (which is a great tool...
Exchange 2013 Coexistence ECP “Your mailbox can't be accessed using the address you entered, please obtain the correct address”

Posted over 1 year ago

by Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
- 10 Comments
In a coexistence scenario, where you’re running Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 in the same organization, and your mailbox is still hosted on the Exchange 2007/2010 Mailbox server and you try to access the Exchange 2013 default...
Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Hyper-V Shared Virtual Hard Disk and Storage QoS

Posted over 1 year ago

by Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
- 7 Comments
A couple of the very nice and long waited features are Hyper-V shared Virtual Hard Disks and Storage Quality of Service are being released as part of the Windows Server 2012 Preview features In this blog post we will walk through the configuration...
SharePoint 2013 - Image Rendition

Posted over 1 year ago

by Zaki Shaheen
- 6 Comments
Image rendition is a new capability in SharePoint 2013 helps you to optimize images in your SharePoint site through having the same image but in different sizes. This will enhance the user experience through browsing the SharePoint site from different...
Part 2: Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration

Posted over 1 year ago

by Mohammad Saeed Abdelaziz
- 23 Comments
In Part 1 of this post we went through the steps required to deploy Exchange 2013, in this part we will start by the required configurations on Exchange 2013 to establish our coexistence and then test it. 2.Digital Certificates Configurations SSL...
InfoPath forms in SharePoint 2010 (Document based and list based forms) Step by Step samples and comparison (Part2)

Posted over 3 years ago

by Hisham Samara
- 4 Comments
In the previous post we have covered the document based forms; now we will use InfoPath to create the second type of list based forms to customize SharePoint 2010 List forms; this post is related to the main post of InfoPath Forms Options in SharePoint...
XP, Outlook Anywhere and TMG Configuration

Posted over 3 years ago

by Mohamed Marzouk [MSFT]
- 3 Comments
This is my first post so I thought to start with a strange case that I was working on last week. Customer environment as follows: - Exchange 2010, with CAS configured properly for Outlook Anywhere. - TMG configured to publish Outlook Anywhere. ...
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration "step by step" – Part 5 “Configuring SQL Reporting Service”

Posted over 3 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
- 3 Comments
In this post series I am going through step by step into System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 starting from “ Pre-Build ”, then I continued with “ Installing Operations Manager Database ”, followed by another post “ Installing...
Reading item attachments programmatically (SPFile.OpenBinary Exception)

Posted over 3 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 4 Comments
This is a small issue that I faced the other day and wasted several hours of my time. The scenario is rather simple. You have a list item and you already have an attachment to this item. What you want to do is to read this item attachment in a workflow...
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration (step by step) – Part 2 “Installing Operations Manager Database”

Posted over 4 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
- 3 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...
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Power Management – Part 2 “Update Clients for Power Management”

Posted over 4 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
- 3 Comments
In this post series I will go through System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Power Management showing general overview and prerequisites for the new SCCM 2007 R3 Power Management feature and then deeply go through the step by step to enable and configure...
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Delta Discovery

Posted over 4 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
- 3 Comments
In the past discovering new objects from Active Directory and to start managing any new object was taking long time, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 introduce a new good feature called Delta Discovery. In this post I will go through a new...
Finally Editing a ListViewWebPart View

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 3 Comments
Finally I was able to edit a newly added ListViewWebPart view by code. I know there is a lot of blogs talking about this topic but I did not find one that is complete with all the bits and pieces so when I managed to do it I decided I have to put the...