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Creating an Active/Active SQL Cluster using Hyper-V: Part1 Virtualized Storage

Posted over 2 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 12 Comments
Introduction In this series of posts I will walk you through the processes of creating an Active/Active SQL server cluster using Hyper-V and Microsoft iSCSI target software for virtualized SAN. The target is to create first a storage server hosted on...
Web performance/load Testing SharePoint 2013 for Beginners (part 1)

Posted over 1 year ago

by Yousef Omar
- 8 Comments
Hello, Web performance/load testing can sound like an intimidating thing, but it is not. And web performance/load testing SharePoint has been made a lot easier with Visual Studio 2012 Update 1. So here is a quick introduction into the subject. Prerequisites...
Recommended Practices - Service bus for Windows server

Posted over 1 year ago

by Mecit Atmaca
- 3 Comments
introduction In my prior post , I have listed some of the APIs that you can use for developing applications where PubSub pattern fits well. In this one, I will give talk little bit more in detail about one of which is Service bus for Windows server and...
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). ·...
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...
Zero Touch Implementation with Configuration Manager 2007 R3

Posted over 4 years ago

by Elie BouIssa
- 5 Comments
One of the most important challenges that an organization can face is deploying or migrating operating systems to a bunch of computers. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) is a great product that can be used to automate the process of...
Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Error: Subtask Configure execution failed: Configure Mail Flow has thrown an exception

Posted 9 months ago

by Mohamed Marzouk [MSFT]
- 5 Comments
Symptoms: When running Hybrid Configuration Wizard you may receive the following error: Updating hybrid configuration failed with error ‎ 'Subtask Configure execution failed: Configure Mail Flow Execution of the New-SendConnector cmdlet has thrown...
BizTalk ESB: Step by Step Walkthrough Creating a Custom Orchestration Service

Posted over 3 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 13 Comments
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...
What to Consider When Creating SQL Server Database Migration Plan?

Posted over 1 year ago

by Ahmad Shahin
- 1 Comment
Introduction SQL Server Migration is the process of stirring a previous implementation of SQL Server to a newer version, different location (or both) due to a strategic decision (such as SQL Server Consolidation). In this post I’m trying to highlight...
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...
Challenges of Migration from GroupWise to Exchange 2010: Co-Existence

Posted over 2 years ago

by Mohamed Marzouk [MSFT]
- 20 Comments
This article will discuss a high level overview about the migration from GroupWise to Exchange 2010. The following steps summarize the migration process from GroupWise to Exchange 2010: 1. Design Exchange 2010. 2. Implement and configure Exchange...
Windows Server 8 – Disk Management with PowerShell 3.0

Posted over 2 years ago

by Anil_Erduran
- 5 Comments
Before Windows Server 8 and PowerShell 3.0, to manage your local, virtual or remote disks there were no native PowerShell cmdlets. You had only below choices; - Using Diskpart (Easy for basic tasks but not flexible) - Using WMI (Flexible but hard to use...
System Center 2012 Orchestrator – Link Conditions

Posted over 2 years ago

by Anil_Erduran
Here is the part 4 of System Center 2012 Orchestrator Runbook concept series. In this blog post we’ll start to cover designing basic and complex runbooks. Previous parts: Part1 - System Center Orchestrator 2012 – Test & Start...
ITPro: How to Convert your Surface RT to Surface Pro – Part 1

Posted 8 months ago

by Mohamed Marzouk [MSFT]
- 6 Comments
From long time I’ve started to have all my labs on Windows Azure (will share that experience in another blog), my main motive was to get rid of my heavy ugly laptop to a light and thin one. My first pilot was to use Surface as the replacement of...
Exchange 2013 and Windows 2012: Error when try to add server to the DAG:

Posted 11 months ago

by Mohamed Marzouk [MSFT]
- 1 Comment
Symptoms: Installing Exchange 2013 on Windows 2012. When trying to add the Mailbox server to the DAG: Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer -Identity dag1 -MailboxServer mbx2 We get the following Error: WARNING: The operation wasn't successful because...
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager–Part7: Software Updates (Deploy)

Posted over 2 years ago

by Elie BouIssa
- 5 Comments
In our last article Part6: Software Updates (SUP) , we’ve configure the Software Update point and ran the synchronization with Microsoft Updates server. As a result of this process, we’ve got the Software Updates metadata synchronized and the result can...
User Profile Synchronization Service stuck on "Starting" and "Security Token Service is unavailable"

Posted over 3 years ago

by Yousef Omar
- 1 Comment
The User Profile Synchronization Service gets stuck on "Starting", and I browse the event log and notice the event 8306 "An exception occurred when trying to issue security token...". I checked the Security Token Service status and realized it was "Security...
Solved: Moving SharePoint 2010 Designer Workflows between Sites

Posted over 2 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 12 Comments
In man occasions you would be faced by the need to move workflows you developed using SharePoint designer from one site to another. This might be the case if for example you developed and tested the workflow on a testing environment and now wants to move...
Auto-Enrollment - Avoid the challenges of making end users manage their certificates

Posted over 4 years ago

by zarafeh
I am going to go over auto-enrollment in Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) Certificate Enrollment Methods in general For a client to enroll for certificates, several ways exist in Windows Server Web Enrollment (the default...
How to create Pin Authorization Normalization rule in Lync

Posted over 3 years ago

by Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
- 2 Comments
I have got many requests on how to create Pin Authorization for specific users on lync to be able to dial international calls. Here’s a sample case scenario and print screen of the normalization rule that meets this case: - User has to type...
Troubleshooting SharePoint Error: The security validation for this page is invalid

Posted over 3 years ago

by Ahmed Nagy
- 3 Comments
While doing custom development on SharePoint using Visual Studio, it is common to get "The security validation for this page is invalid". I give 2 simple steps to troubleshoot this issue, I assume that you did not yet go into playing with the Web Application...
Understand FAST Search Logical Architecture for SharePoint 2010

Posted over 2 years ago

by Issa Ayyash
- 1 Comment
Architecture In this port , I’m going to talk about the FAST Search components and how they are interacting with each other , I recommend to read this article before start deploying FAST search as it should give a good guidance and understanding...
ITPro: How to Convert your Surface RT to Surface Pro – Part 3

Posted 8 months ago

by Mohamed Marzouk [MSFT]
- 1 Comment
In Part 1 : I’ve explained how to install Remote Desktop services on the server and fix common error that you may face, in Part 2 we finished configuring Remote Desktop Services and publish RemoteApp. This part we will test from client side machine by...
InfoPath 2010 Paging (without coding)

Posted over 1 year ago

by Ahmad Shahin
- 13 Comments
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 Administration & Development Tools and Guidance

Posted over 2 years ago

by Mecit Atmaca
- 5 Comments
In this post, I am going to list the most used tools aligned with MS recommended practices for custom SharePoint development and administration. Please note that there are hundreds of tools available (from MS or 3 rd party) in the market and the tools...