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MEA Services upcoming events schedule
Posted
11 months ago
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Mohamed M Malek
1
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I am very happy to announce that we have started an initiative to present and share MEA services experience more with the public community. As a starting point we have prepared a list of upcoming webcasts that you can attend to gain more in-depth information...
Using an IIS hosted MEX endpoint with an in-process WCF receive location in BizTalk Server
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
4
Comments
Introduction Receiving messages and requests using WCF endpoints and receive locations is a very well-known practice that is used in many BizTalk integration projects. These WCF services can be either a published orchestration or using specific input...
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...
Integrating Apache ActiveMQ with BizTalk Server 2013 using WCF-WebHTTP adapter and REST API
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
2
Comments
Introduction In this blog post I will present a very simple solution to integrate with Apache ActiveMQ platform. Actually I got this question from a friend I could not believe how easy it is to integrate with this platform using the new BizTalk 2013 WCF...
Recommended Practices - Service bus for Windows server
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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...
Developing Connected Applications aligned with Observer Design Pattern
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over 1 year ago
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Mecit Atmaca
1
Comment
Introduction In this post, I will briefly explain Observer design pattern, its use cases and implementations for enterprise, Phone, and Windows store platforms. Observer, introduced in the book named ‘Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented...
Creating an Active/Active SQL Cluster using Hyper-V: Part4 Configuration Revisited
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
In part 1 of this series I showed you how to configure the virtual storage required for the cluster. In part 2 of this series I showed you how to configure two SQL instances on the created windows cluster. In part 3 I showed you how to configure these...
Microsoft Windows Multi-Site Failover Cluster Best Practices
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over 1 year ago
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Maged Ezzat
7
Comments
Windows Server 2012 Multi-Site Failover Cluster is one of High Availability and disaster recovery solutions, although Windows Server 2012 Multi-Site Failover Cluster installation is very straightforward similar to single site Failover Cluster, however...
Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Hyper-V Shared Virtual Hard Disk and Storage QoS
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over 1 year ago
by
Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
7
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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...
MEA Apps of the Month–Nov 2013
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over 1 year ago
by
Maged Ezzat
2
Comments
In this blog post series I will share MEA Applications of the month for Microsoft Windows 8 (W8) Devices, Windows Phone 8 (WP8) Devices and Xbox, these applications were selected by real application users, you will find a short description about each...
Renaming FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Databases
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over 1 year ago
by
Ahmad Shahin
As part of extending my pervious post ( Renaming SharePoint 2010 Search Service Database Name ) I’m planning to provide a walkthrough practice for changing the Database names for FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP). I will start this post by listing...
Top Egyptian Windows 8 & Windows Phone Devices Applications – Download and Rate
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over 1 year ago
by
Maged Ezzat
This post is cross posting about Microsoft Egyptian Top Applications for both Windows 8 devices and Windows Phone Devices that was selected as Applications of the Month for August 2013, with application description, and URL from where you can download...
Replicate SCVMM 2012 Clustered VMs using Hyper-V Replica & SQL Always-On
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over 1 year ago
by
Maged Ezzat
As one of the common scenarios for Disaster Recovery using Hyper-V Replica is to replicate System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Virtual Machine (VM) while utilize SQL Server 2012 Always-On to replicate the SCVMM DB, however when SCVMM is implemented...
Cross farm Service Applications Integration between two separate SharePoint farms
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over 1 year ago
by
Issa Ayyash
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Introduction A very powerful integration capability is available between SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2010/2013, where SharePoint 2010 can still consume service applications from SharePoint 2013 , in this post I will walk you through a step by...
Solved: Nested and conditional parent and child Table Looping Functoid in BizTalk mapping
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
1
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Introduction BizTalk mapping tool is a very powerful tool once you get the hang of it. Sometimes you would need to produce some structure in the output schema that did not exist in the source schema, the Table Looping functoid is built for this specific...
BizTalk Cop installation and configuration for VS 2012
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over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
5
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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...
SQL 2012 Unattended installation & Configuration file creation
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over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
Introduction In many cases you might be faced with a requirement to perform an unattended SQL Server 2012 installation. To perform SQL Server 2012 installation you need to perform many choices and steps to configure your installation so the question is...
Use of SignalR for Real-Time Messaging on Windows RT Devices
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over 1 year ago
by
Mecit Atmaca
Introduction One of the challenges using Windows RTs is to send messages from a store application deployed on one Windows RT tablet (Surface RT in my case) to the other application on another Windows RT tablet. It is a challenge, mainly because it requires...
Fixed: BizTalk 2013 BAM Portal configuration problem
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over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
1
Comment
The Problem When configuring BizTalk Server 2013 RTM on a multi-computer environment you might face multiple issues that are new and did not exist in previous versions of BizTalk server. One of these issues that I faced was when you try to configure the...
Fixed: BizTalk 2013 BAM tools configuration problem
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
2
Comments
The Problem When configuring BizTalk Server 2013 RTM on a multi-computer environment you might face multiple issues that are new and did not exist in previous versions of BizTalk server. One of these issues that I faced was when the BizTalk Server and...
Part 4: Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohammad Saeed Abdelaziz
29
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 part 3 started our migration process. In this final post we will walk through the final steps in migration,...
Part 3: Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohammad Saeed Abdelaziz
15
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...
Part 2: Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohammad Saeed Abdelaziz
23
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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...
Part 1: Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohammad Saeed Abdelaziz
24
Comments
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...
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...
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