I have got many requests on how to create Pin Authorization for specific users on lync to be able to dial international calls. Here’s a sample case scenario and print screen of the normalization rule that meets this case: - User has to type...

This is the first post in a series to take you through my learning experience to using the Windows Azure service bus. The Service Bus is a concrete implementation of the service bus pattern designed to operate at Internet scope within highly-scalable...

Visual Round Trip Analyzer (VRTA) is a tool that helps the SharePoint Administrator identify what is being downloaded at a web page level. One of the biggest complaints from users is the response time.   VRTA excels in showing the network round trip...

Introduction Hello again. In the first part we have done an introduction to TFS 2010 and installation according to dual-server topology. In this post, we will talk about migrating existing TFS databases into TFS 2010 platform. We shall start! Firstly...

I recently came across a requirement to implement a Windows Communication Service that acts as a message router across several other WCF backend services. This router service main functionality is to encapsulate the backend services and also to add automatic...

Usually when writing custom BizTalk pipeline components you find yourself wanting to extract specific values from the message passed using Xpath statements. You can do this either by XPathDocument or XDocument, but this solution would require loading...

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In real SOA implementation, you will be probably exposing many WCF Services that you need to secure. Many blogs are there around STS and WCF, but non of them which guide you through a basic implementation of a custom STS using Windows Identity Foundation...

    I’ve been configuring TMG auto client proxy detection and it was failing. After researching it online and internally, didn’t find anything useful. So when I installed the TMG client and run this test: C:\Program Files (x86)\Forefront TMG...

    Below are the operational tasks which should be done on a regular basis, . There is still work to be done on deciding who will perform each task. Daily Tasks The following tasks should all be carried out on a daily basis: Backup SQL Server...

Do not enable auto-create statistics on a SQL Server that is supporting SharePoint Server To ensure optimal performance, it is recommend that you set max degree of parallelism (MAXDOP) to 1 To improve ease of maintenance, configure SQL Server connection...

After installing SQL server on a machine, it happens that you connect or disconnect that machine to domain. WHen you do this, the administrator account can no longer access the database engine. The below steps allow you to regain access to the SQL server...