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Securing WCF Services with Custom WIF STS: A Step-By-Step guide
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over 3 years ago
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Ahmed Nagy
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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...
Cannot Login to SQL Server using administrator account
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over 3 years ago
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Ahmed Nagy
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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...
A Crash Course in Optimizing SQL Server for SharePoint
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over 3 years ago
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Yousef Omar
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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...
How to create Pin Authorization Normalization rule in Lync
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over 3 years ago
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Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
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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...
Installing and configuring a 4-server SharePoint farm–a successful order
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over 3 years ago
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Yousef Omar
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WSPAD file is in bad format
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over 3 years ago
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Mohammed Saad MEA
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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...
Operation Tasks for Monitoring & Maintaining SharePoint environment
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over 3 years ago
by
Ahmed AbdAllah1
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...
Streamed XPath Extraction using hidden BizTalk class XPathReader
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over 3 years ago
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Mohamed M Malek
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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...
Implementing a message pass-through WCF Behaviour (Router WCF service)
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over 3 years ago
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Mohamed M Malek
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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...
TFS 2010 in Practice –Import Upgrade from 2005/2008
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over 3 years ago
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Mecit Atmaca
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...
Visual Round Trip Analyzer For SharePoint administrator
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over 3 years ago
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Ahmed AbdAllah1
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...
My Hello Azure Service Bus WCF Service–Step by step guide
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over 3 years ago
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Mohamed M Malek
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...