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Solved: How to move a Hyper-V virtual machine without Exporting it first
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over 2 years ago
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Mohamed M Malek
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So you have created many virtual machines in Hyper-V manager and suddenly you want to move one of them in a new HDD or just rename the folder holding it, you will find that this is not a trivial task! Hyper-V management service holds an open handle to...
Service Manager 2012 Console Task to Bulk Remove Instances
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over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
4
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If you have a demo/preprod environment for Service Manager 2012, probably you created lots of instances (Incidents, Change Requests, Release Records etc. ) for testing purposes. This helps you to get demo just right. But when it comes to production, you...
System Center Orchestrator 2012 – Test & Start RunBooks
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over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
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In this part of Orchestrator 2012 RunBook Concepts series, let’s cover how to test, save and run your existing RunBooks. For the first two parts: Part 1: http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/03/06/system-center-2012-orchestrator...
UI Design Challenges
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over 2 years ago
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Ahmad Shahin
4
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Microsoft has many products built using Asp.Net platform (including SharePoint), and this means that we will have a lot of flexibility in implementing a new UI design. But what will happen if we consider hiring a Specialized Designers to implement all...
Walkthrough SharePoint 2010 Workflow Visualization
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over 2 years ago
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Ahmad Shahin
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Introduction SharePoint 2010 is a powerful platform that provides many useful features that help us in our day to day activities. As I was working in one of the projects I came along a challenge of implementing out of the box workflows, so I considered...
PowerShell 3.0 – Shell from Future
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over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
2
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PowerShell 3.0 is shipped with Windows 8. We are still experiencing some of the great features of Windows Server 8, but PowerShell 3.0 also brings many new features. Thanks to PowerShell Product Team for such a great innovation. In this blog post, I will...
Installing and Configuring target iSCSI server on Windows Server 2012 “Server 8 Beta”
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over 2 years ago
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Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
4
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iSCSI Software Target is now part of windows Server 8 Beta Roles and features, In this post i will walkthrough installing and configuring iSCSI software target. Important Notes : - iSCSI Target server now is integrated with Windows Failover clustering...
Windows Server 2012 “Server 8 Beta” GUI Removal and Reinstallation
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over 2 years ago
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Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
1
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One of the very interesting features of Windows Server 8 Beta is the ability to install your server with full GUI and do all of your required configurations and then remove the GUI to be server core. Same operation can be done the other way around as...
Waiting Tasks Caused by FSAGENT in SQL Server 2008
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over 2 years ago
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Hisham Samara
1
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After preparing a brand-new server hosting SQL server 2008 and before starting anything ,we’ve noticed that there are 5 waiting tasks on server,it was really weird as no users are connected and no operation took place yet! The activity monitor...
System Center 2012 Orchestrator–RunBook Basics
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over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
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Part 2: http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/03/09/system-center-2012-orchestrator-runbook-activities.aspx Part 3: http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/03/14/system-center-orchestrator-2012-test-amp-start-runbooks.aspx Part 4...
SharePoint 2010 Best Practices–Presentation
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over 2 years ago
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Yousef Omar
1
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I recently went through the best practices series for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850682.aspx Very useful and straight to the point guidance, tips, and best practices. I thought to compile some of the series...
Windows Server 8 – Manage Hyper-V 3.0 with PowerShell
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over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
1
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One of the major feature of Windows Server 8 is Hyper-V 3.0 This new version of Microsoft virtualization platform brings great improvements and features. In this blog post we’ll cover a couple of Windows Server 8 Hyper-V PowerShell command lets. Using...
Migrating Windows 2003 Enterprise Certificate Authority to Windows 2008 R2 based CA
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over 2 years ago
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Kashif Awan
4
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Organizations have different reasons and requirements for upgrading or migrating to Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS). They include: An existing, properly implemented, and operating public key infrastructure (PKI) may require an upgrade to...
How to Convert Web Site To Web Application
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over 2 years ago
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Mecit Atmaca
1
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In earlier post , I have explained the motives behind converting web site (WSP) to web application (WAP). In this post I will detail the steps of conversion. Before talking about steps, it is important to mention that, steps listed below are for...
WCF Service with Multiple Endpoints
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over 2 years ago
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Mecit Atmaca
Introduction Recently, I was asked whether a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service can have both net.tcp and http binding. I did a proof of concept (POC) work and want to share with you here. How to Actually, there is a good business/technical...
Error after SQL Server 2012 installation: Login Failure for "SQL Server Integration Services 11.0" SSIS service
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over 2 years ago
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Ahmed Nagy
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When you install SQL Server 2012 and you try to connect to SSIS services, you cannot due to that the SSIS service not running. When you manually try to start the SSIS service the service may fail due to login failure of the service account. By Default...
Windows Server 8 – Truly Live Storage Migration
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over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
Beta version of Windows 8 went to live on 29th February. Development team announced that it had reached over 1 million downloads within the first 24 hours. Considering this is a pre-release software, 1 million is an incredible start for Microsoft. I believe...
Windows Server 8 - Storage Migration Video
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over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
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Here is the video version of my previous Storage Migration article; Download link">http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/03/23/windows-server-8-truly-live-storage-migration.aspx Download Link: Here [Please visit the original...
Building Configuration Manager 2012 Hierarchy – Part 4 Deploying Tier 3 Secondary Site
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over 2 years ago
by
Elie BouIssa
In my previous blog article Building Configuration Manager 2012 Hierarchy – Part 3 Deploying Tier 2 Primary Site , we went over the required steps to deploy the first primary site in the hierarchy. To have more than one primary site, you will need to...
Web Site vs Web Application
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over 2 years ago
by
Mecit Atmaca
Introduction Recently, we have done .net framework(FW) and IDE upgrade (FW 3.5 to FW4.0 and VS 2008 to VS 2010). It resulted in minor issues in service (WCF), business and data layers whereas many issues on web front-end. They are all fixed with moderate...
Service Manager 2012 - Orchestrator 2012 Integration Video Series - Part 3
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over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
Part 1 : http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/02/24/service-manager-2012-orchestrator-2012-integration-video-series-part-1.aspx Part 2 : http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/02/27/service-manager-2012-orchestrator-2012-integration...
InfoPath with Document Information Panels (DIP) in SharePoint 2010 Document library
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over 2 years ago
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Hisham Samara
1
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The document information panel DIP is a form that appears within Microsoft office documents, it can be used with documents hosted with SharePoint libraries, it allows the users entering data that can be saved later to SharePoint libraries columns and...
Referencing 32-Bit COM Components in SharePoint 2010 after Upgrade from SharePoint 2007
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over 2 years ago
by
Hisham Samara
When performing SharePoint upgrade from 2007 to 2010, we face a challenge in legacy components especially COM based components, and the problem raises when those COM components are compiled and targeted to 32bit operating system, in this post I...
System Center 2012 Orchestrator–RunBook Activities
Posted
over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
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In this second part of Orchestrator RunBook Concepts series, we’ll cover RunBook activities and its properties. Part 1: http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/03/06/system-center-2012-orchestrator-runbook-basics.aspx Part 3: http:...
New Microsoft Certifications–to the next level!
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Yousef Omar
Put your skills against the test, stay relevant, get a salary increase, and be motivated towards a goal! Microsoft Certifications are continually updated, to help you keep your skills up to date in an ever-changing global IT environment. Microsoft Certifications...
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