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Auto-Enrollment - Avoid the challenges of making end users manage their certificates
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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...
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...
SQL Mirroring & Replication
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Mohamed El Ashmawi
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA ...
Move Mailboxes methods from Exchange 2003/2007 to Exchange 2010
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Maged Ezzat
2
Comments
Typically in the upgrade scenario moving mailboxes will be done from Exchange 2007/2003 mailbox databases (Source) to Exchange 2010 mailbox databases (Target). When moving mailboxes from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) to Exchange...
SQL Merge Replication
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Mohamed El Ashmawi
1
Comment
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA ...
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...
Using a custom user profile property for people search results scopes
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
The scenario is simple; what have configured people search and allowed that to search using a custom metadata property that is being populated into the user profiles from an external system like a BCS system. For this post I assume that the user profiles...
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...
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...
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...
Configuring Windows Network Load Balancing
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Mohamed El Ashmawi
3
Comments
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA ...
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...
Why DPM 2010 and SharePoint 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 continuous data protection...
SharePoint Survey List Webpart
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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...
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...
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...
Migrating ISA 2006 to TMG 2010
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over 4 years ago
by
zarafeh
Before we start we have to keep one important thing in mind. ISA used to operate on 32 bit processors only. TMG operates on 64 bit processors only. So, Upgrade is not possible. What is possible though is migration. Migration involves exporting ISA’s...
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...
Auto Populate Telephone Numbers form Active Directory to Office Communicator 2007/R2
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Maged Ezzat
In some OCS 2007/R2 Implementation scenarios without Enterprise Voice it is required that all user’s Telephone numbers in Active Directory to be populated to Office Communicator 2007/R2 though Office Communication Server 2007/R2 Address Book, so...
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...
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...
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...
Private Cloud Architecture - Part 2: Principles
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Yasser Abdel Kader
In the first part of this series ( here and here ), I started by some discussion regarding the basic definition that we will build upon toward achieving the Private Cloud Promises. In this post, I will discuss the main principles behind Private Cloud...
Configuring WCF connection timeout for BCS
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Mohamed M Malek
The scenario is that you have configured a BCS system connecting to a WCF service. Now this service is not connecting to a reliable system and you have a failover node for it. But since BCS by default will keep waiting for the service to respond you will...
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...
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