I started this blog series by giving an overview about Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting in this post Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting – Part 1 “Overview” and then I went through Hosting Description in this post Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting – Part...

A very interesting feature of SharePoint 2010 is the Word automation services. Word automation services allows you to convert between multiple document formats which runs as a batch job. This is very useful in many server side scenarios where customers...

In this post series I am going through step by step into System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 starting from “ Pre-Build ”, then I continued with “ Installing Operations Manager Database ”, followed by another post “ Installing...

In IIS 7.5 there is a new feature called the auto start provider. This feature allows you to load any custom web application resources to allow the application to provide better performance right from the first request.   Usually implementing an...

  Symptoms : - When you install Forefront Protection for Exchange on Exchange 2010 HUB Server, after the installation Microsoft Exchange Transport Service stops and when you open forefront console, the console cannot be loaded.   Reason: - If...

Using the ASP.NET SQL membership provider to authenticate and authorize calls to WCF services is not an uncommon scenario. But the problem is in the authorization part. Usually to authorize access to WCF service methods this is done using static hard...

Migrating Forms Based authentication sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 using database attach method applies the general principles of database attach upgrade method; however, it includes some additional steps to cater for membership &...

When you try to migrate Windows XP SP 2 computer with ADMT, the migration fails and the error " ERR2:7711 Unable to retrieve the DNS hostname for the migrated computer 'v-test-mig.source.com'. The ADSI property cannot be found in the property cache...

According to technet article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx , “Host-named site collections provide a scalable Web hosting solution with each site collection assigned to a unique DNS name. In a Web hosting deployment, each...

There are already several standard and well documented methods for creating a NLB cluster for BAM Portal like here . The problem with all these methods is that they tend to be very complex and long. Usually you would end up missing some steps and it will...

In my previous post, I mentioned that sometimes you need to create dynamic queries for SQL servers and that one of the options is to write queries that dynamically creates the needed queries for you. Although this might seem unclear when describing...

Users might lose access to their EFS private keys through cases, like corrupted user profiles, hard disk failure, OS reinstall etc. Now here are some important facts about EFS Keys before we start the comparison 1- A time valid certificate and...

If you are developing an ASP.NET application and required to have the password placed in the configuration file then you have seen this condition. The thing is that usually we would want to put the password encrypted and one way that existed since ASP...

After the creation of host names site collections as per the script mentioned in my previous article, you might find the need to create managed path and have separate site collections for them. [Note the technet article on managed path Host Name Site...