December, 2010

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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...
Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting – Part 1 “Overview”

Posted over 3 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
- 5 Comments
In this series of posts I will go through Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting details starting from Overview, Deployment, Migration, Multi-Tenant,...etc. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 supports hosting deployments and provides Hosting Partners the core feature...
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...
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...
Configuring Windows Network Load Balancing

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohamed El Ashmawi
- 3 Comments
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Why Windows 7 and Office 2010 are Better Together?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
- 2 Comments
Office 2010 works with many different Operating System Windows versions, however innovations in Windows 7 are seamlessly integrated with Office 2010 to help you work more efficiently. Here are just a few of the ways that Office 2010 and Windows 7 are...
Why DPM 2010 and Windows Client Desktop or Laptop are Better Together?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
- 2 Comments
Many companies estimate that nearly 50% of their data resides only on someone’s laptop, which is often travelling or remote to any company datacenter. PC administrators are looking for a better way to protect and recover Windows® laptops...
Prepare client side environment to Upgrade from Exchange 2003/2007 to Exchange 2010

Posted over 4 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
- 6 Comments
For Environment with high percentage of clients are using Outlook 2003, and because there are some common client access considerations for outlook 2003 and Exchange 2010, then some preparations on client side should be done to cover all considerations...
Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting – Part 2 “Hosting Description”

Posted over 3 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
- 2 Comments
In this series of posts I started with giving an overview about Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting here , and in this post I will go through Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Description, Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting introduces a new multi-tenant model with accompanying...
SQL Merge Replication

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohamed El Ashmawi
- 1 Comment
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SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service: Part 1a Configuration

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 1 Comment
I wanted to write a series about how to get SharePoint 2010 user profiles service and synchronization scenario working. So this is the first post of this series and I will talk about the configuration alternatives of the user profiles service. The user...
New Windows 2008 / 2008 R2 Group Policy Preferences

Posted over 4 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
- 1 Comment
I found that it is very important to know what is new in Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 Group Policy Preferences, that is why I shared this information that I collected from Microsoft Documentation. With the release of Windows Server 2008 additional...
Custom SharePoint Site Definition with Discussion list view

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 1 Comment
I have been trying to develop a new custom SharePoint site definition on SharePoint 2007 that would put a discussion list view web part on the home page of the created site. Now everything seemed to be working fine and list view was added...
NEVER, AGAIN NEVER use a FQDN for the SharePoint 2010 SQL server name

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 1 Comment
I really cannot stress enough on this. Really do not do this; you will save yourself TONS of problems. You see I built a VM as a development VM for a project and when I was configuring SharePoint I said let me put the FQDN for the SQL server which...
Simple TMG Perfromance Tweaks using DNS

Posted over 4 years ago

by zarafeh
Boosting TMG Performance through simple DNS tweaks TMG uses Its own Built-in Name resolution Cache, Then it fails back to DNS, then it fails back to Netbios Name Resolution. Accordingly below are some DNS related methods that can be used to optimize...
Problems after TMG SP1 solved with Software Update 2

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohammed Saad MEA
"NLB Stopped - Configuration Failure" error message may occur when you try to enable the NLB feature in Forefront TMG 2010 if the network adapters are VLAN tagged or teamed The Forefront TMG firewall service leaks memory when you access...
Why DPM 2010 and Hyper-V are Better Together?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
If your company relies on Microsoft® Hyper-V™ virtualization technologies within your server infrastructure, who will you trust to ensure its protection and recovery? As part of the overall Microsoft Virtualization platform, System Center...
Hyper-V Error after DirectAccess: Cannot find the physical computer that runs the virtual machine. Try to flush your DNS cache (run ipconfig /flushdns). Then try to connect again. If the problem persists, contact the administrator of the physical computer

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohammed Saad MEA
I always use Windows Server 2008 R2 for my laptop, and I just installed DirectAccess and couple of updates. After that, I couldn’t connect to virtual machines itself and it gets me the following error Cannot find the physical computer that...
Why DPM 2010 and SQL are Better Together?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
Non-Microsoft backup solutions tend to take generic backup functionality and adapt it to support-specific applications. In contrast, Microsoft created DPM 2010 to leverage fully supported Microsoft technologies in order to provide near-continuous data...
Why DPM 2010 and Exchange 2010 are Better Together?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Maged Ezzat
Non-Microsoft backup solutions tend to take a generic backup functionality and adapt it to support-specific applications. In contrast, Microsoft created DPM 2010 to leverage fully supported Microsoft technologies in order to provide continuous data protection...
Booting from a VHD GOTCHAS

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
So I wanted to convert my virtual machine into a native boot, how hard can that be? Well because I am so lucky (maybe not!) I faced and done all the wrong steps and took all the bad turns. In this post I will concentrate more on the bad things I made...
BizTalk Server 2010 Training - NOW AVAILABLE!

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
- 1 Comment
Great news all. Recently we have just released the BizTalk Server 2010 training kit (that includes labs and training videos) to help you learn about the new features of BizTalk Server 2010 can now be downloaded here . This is a free training kit. These...
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...
SharePoint Survey List Webpart

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohamed M Malek
Hi SharePoint Developers, This is my first blog post and I am very excited about sharing my experience with you. So let’s just dive into it. I wanted to present to you a solution that I think was interesting; I had an issue in a project...
SQL Mirroring & Replication

Posted over 4 years ago

by Mohamed El Ashmawi
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December, 2010

Zero Touch Implementation with Configuration Manager 2007 R3

Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting – Part 1 “Overview”

SharePoint 2010 People Search using Metadata

Finally Editing a ListViewWebPart View

Configuring Windows Network Load Balancing

Why Windows 7 and Office 2010 are Better Together?

Why DPM 2010 and Windows Client Desktop or Laptop are Better Together?

Prepare client side environment to Upgrade from Exchange 2003/2007 to Exchange 2010

Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting – Part 2 “Hosting Description”

SQL Merge Replication

SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service: Part 1a Configuration

New Windows 2008 / 2008 R2 Group Policy Preferences

Custom SharePoint Site Definition with Discussion list view

NEVER, AGAIN NEVER use a FQDN for the SharePoint 2010 SQL server name

Simple TMG Perfromance Tweaks using DNS

Problems after TMG SP1 solved with Software Update 2

Why DPM 2010 and Hyper-V are Better Together?

Hyper-V Error after DirectAccess: Cannot find the physical computer that runs the virtual machine. Try to flush your DNS cache (run ipconfig /flushdns). Then try to connect again. If the problem persists, contact the administrator of the physical computer

Why DPM 2010 and SQL are Better Together?

Why DPM 2010 and Exchange 2010 are Better Together?

Booting from a VHD GOTCHAS

BizTalk Server 2010 Training - NOW AVAILABLE!

Auto-Enrollment - Avoid the challenges of making end users manage their certificates

SharePoint Survey List Webpart

SQL Mirroring & Replication