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Office 365 Arabization – Part III
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over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed Marzouk [MSFT]
1
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In Part II I’ve explained how to create bulk users using CSV file, and how to create the CSV file. In this part we will discuss some of the management tasks including password. Users Bulk Import with Password In Part II I’ve explained...
Some users unable to create VMs in VMM 2012 SP1: “User or user role not valid” (Error ID 26726)
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Fatima Azzahra El Azzouzi
3
Comments
This post describes an error that occurred during System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 deployment, with two VMM servers in cluster configuration. When using the VMM Console, some users (but not all users) were unable to create VMs, even if...
Finding unused fields in InfoPath From
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Ahmad Shahin
1
Comment
Introduction As I was working with one of the projects I had a customized InfoPath Form that has 100's of fields and multiple Views. As I was going though I had a concern that a lot of these fields were not used, so how to find which fields are used...
SharePoint Group Calendar, Adding default users
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over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
18
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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...
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
23
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...
Error Object Reference when viewing timer job definitions in SharePoint 2013
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over 1 year ago
by
Hisham Samara
1
Comment
During configuring one of SharePoint 2013 farms we faced an issue when trying to list the timer job definitions using central administration, this is caused after a power failure in data center which may interrupted some provisioning activities , anyways...
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...
Office Web Apps OWA and SP 2013 - Resource not found when viewing excel files
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over 1 year ago
by
Hisham Samara
1
Comment
After installing SharePoint 2013 farm with OWA server I’ve faced an issue when viewing excel files online, and the weird thing that it happens in excel files only! Power point and word were working 100%! Going to the discovery page for OWA located on...
Office 365 Arabization – Part II
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed Marzouk [MSFT]
2
Comments
In Part I we have answered the basic questions on how to have Arabic Office 365 tenant, in this article we will go through more advanced tasks in managing and administering Office 365. Users Bulk Import Creating bulk users on Office 365 can be...
A Small trick: How to extract a BizTalk BAM definition from an Excel sheet without installing Excel client
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over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
1
Comment
This is a small trick that I have been doing for sometime now and wanted to share. The scenario is that you have prepared the BizTalk BAM definition and you ready to deploy it to the production environment, you run the bm.exe command and you see the situation;...
How to configure SQL Database mail to send emails using Office 365 (Exchange Online): A walkthrough
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over 1 year ago
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Mohamed M Malek
10
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Introduction SQL Server has a feature called database mail. This feature allows the database server to send emails to any external entity using SMTP server. The problem happens if you have installed an on-premise SQL server and an online (Office 365...
SharePoint Provider Hosted App Walkthrough: Part 1 Preparation
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over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
12
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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...
Office 365 Arabization – Part I
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mohamed Marzouk [MSFT]
3
Comments
In this article, we will answer the following questions: - How can we use Arabic in Office 365? What fields can be Arabic? - How can we manage Arabic users? Let’s start from the beginning, company wants to utilize Office 365 and everything...
SharePoint 2013 Backup with PowerShell and Task Scheduler for beginners
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over 1 year ago
by
Yousef Omar
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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...
SharePoint Powershell command problem - FeatureDependencyId are not registered
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Issa Ayyash
8
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Problem When you run SharePoint PowerShell on your SharePoint server you get the following error: Error: "The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered". Solution Make sure the logged in user who...
SharePoint 2010/2013 user profile synchronization
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over 1 year ago
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Issa Ayyash
11
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The User Profile Synchronization service is the core of the synchronization architecture in SharePoint Server 2013. When you start the User Profile Synchronization service on the synchronization server, SharePoint Server 2013 provisions a version...
SharePoint 2010/2013 Search Incremental crawl vs Full crawl
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over 1 year ago
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Issa Ayyash
3
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In order to plan the Incremental and Full Crawl scenarios and schedule , I’m adding the below information in this regard: ...
SQL 2012 Failover Cluster Build (Step by Step) – Part 3:Adding a New Instance
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over 1 year ago
by
Mecit Atmaca
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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...
SQL 2012 Failover Cluster Build (Step by Step) – Part 2: Adding a New Node
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Mecit Atmaca
4
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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 1: Installing SQL 2012
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over 1 year ago
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Mecit Atmaca
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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...
Diagnostics of Azure Web Sites – Custom Logging
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over 1 year ago
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Mecit Atmaca
1
Comment
Introduction In the first part of these series, I talked about built-in diagnostics features of Windows Azure platform and mentioned that it gives high-level diagnostic information; for detail troubleshooting information a custom logging capability is...
Diagnostics of Windows Azure Web Sites – Built-in Diagnostic Features
Posted
over 1 year ago
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Mecit Atmaca
1
Comment
Introduction I have been developing an MVC 4.0 web application that is hosted in Azure platform. In this first part of 2-blog post series, I will talk about leveraging built-in logging and tracing features of Windows Azure platform. Context Use...
What is Microsoft StreamInsight?
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over 1 year ago
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Ahmad Shahin
1
Comment
Introduction AS I was attending on of the sessions I found an Interesting Microsoft Tool called "Microsoft StreamInsight", so I decided to write this post to provide more information about it and provide general guidelines on it. What is Microsoft...
Creating a SQL Server alias using the SQL Server Client Network Utility
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Yousef Omar
4
Comments
Many think that you have to install the SQL Server client tools to be able to create a SQL Server alias on a client machine. You can do this without installing SQL Server client tools. Windows ships with the SQL Server Client Network Utility. This is...
YouTube Video Gallery in SharePoint 2010
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over 2 years ago
by
Hisham Samara
2
Comments
During one of our engagement we had a requirement for one of our customers to build video galley on SharePoint The video galleries are created based on SharePoint content type as backend storage and content Query web part mixed with JQuery features to...
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