This is a small issue that I faced the other day and wasted several hours of my time. The scenario is rather simple. You have a list item and you already have an attachment to this item. What you want to do is to read this item attachment in a workflow...

End of last week, Microsoft released Lync Server 2010 Best Practices Analyzer and now it is available for download from this URL http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=030548df-0dc7-4f86-b8a9-2f5ec8de8ba5&displaylang=en and the...

After configuring SQL Server database mail and testing it successfully, you could find maintenance plans unable to send e-mails although you have set the recipients correctly. This is generally due to the setting for the default profile for database...

The Windows® Automated Installation Kit for Windows® 7 SP1 has been released. To download the update: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=696dd665-9f76-4177-a811-39c26d3b3b34 For the online readme help: http://technet.microsoft...

Service pack 1 for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 is now RTM and released to MSDN and technet subscribers. The service pack will be available for public download on 22nd of Feb. This release adds new features for Windows 2008 R2. Major features are for...

Today I had for specific reasons to install the older BizTalk 2006 R2 on a Windows 2008 R2 server. Now although this leads to an unsupported scenario; it is still valid for development environments (as in the case I encountered). Another issue that complicated...

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Planning Tool just released this week and available for download from Microsoft downloads here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=bcd64040-40c4-4714-9e68-c649785cc43a , and readme file can be downloaded...

You may encounter an issue with SharePoint 2010 document libraries that prevents users from check-out or edit documents in the document library. The issue occurs when you break the security inheritance of the document library. Regardless of what permission...

In the previous post I showed you how to deploy the BCS model for the Employee WCF service. In this post we will continue our scenario by adding the synchronization sources for the AD and the BCS WCF service. Add the Employee IDs to the AD profile This...

In the previous post I described the exact scenario I am trying to implement and detailed how to create the WCF service and deploy it. In this post I will continue by describing how can we prepare this WCF to be consumed from the User Profiles Synchronization...

In this post I will start talking about using the UPS and how we can use that to connect to two sources of user profiles data. Please refer to the previous post on how to configure the UPS. The Scenario So lets first describe the scenario at hand. We...