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How to add Desktop Experience feature on Windows Server 2012 “Server 8 Beta”
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over 2 years ago
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Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
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As desktop Experience feature is being relocated to be under User interface and infrastructure many people might believe it’s no longer there ! but it’s and below screenshot shows the exact location of desktop experience feature.
Windows Server 2012 Direct Access Part 2–How to Build a Test Lab
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over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
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Here is the second part of Windows Server 2012 Direct Access blog series. Part1: http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/05/03/windows-server-2012-direct-access-part-1-what-s-new.aspx In the first post we discussed what’s new and what are the design...
Windows Server 2012 Direct Access – Part 1 What’s New
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over 2 years ago
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Anil_Erduran
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Direct Access feature was introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Client computers. Direct Access overcomes the limitations of VPNs by automatically establishing a bi-directional connection from client computers to the corporate network so...
Prepare SharePoint Farm – Part 3 Prepare NLB for SharePoint Web Front End WFE Servers
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over 2 years ago
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Issa Ayyash
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Part 1 - Prepare Windows Cluster Part 2 - Install and configure SQL Cluster part 4 - Install and configure SharePoint farm (3-tier) This post demonstrate a step by step NLB configuration , how to prepare a NLB cluster to be used later on as...
Prepare SharePoint Farm – Part 4 Install and Configure SharePoint farm (3 -tier)
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over 2 years ago
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Issa Ayyash
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In previous posts , we have configured windows cluster, SQL cluster, and NLB for the WFE servers. Part 1 - Prepare Windows Cluster Part 2 - Install and configure SQL Cluster Part 3 - Install and Configure NLB on WFE In this post we will perform...
Converged Fabric in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-v
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over 2 years ago
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Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
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Converged Fabrics tends to simplify data center management by consolidating all communication (Management, LiveMigration, iSCSI, CSV and Cluster heartbeat & CSV) onto a single fabric for ease of management and better utilization of high availability...
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager–Part7: Software Updates (Deploy)
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over 2 years ago
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Elie BouIssa
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In our last article Part6: Software Updates (SUP) , we’ve configure the Software Update point and ran the synchronization with Microsoft Updates server. As a result of this process, we’ve got the Software Updates metadata synchronized and the result can...
Hyper-V Resource Metering in Windows server 2012 “Server 8 Beta”
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over 2 years ago
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Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
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IT organizations need tools to charge back business units that they support while providing the business units with the right amount of resources to match their needs. For hosting providers, it is equally important to issue chargebacks based on...
Prepare SharePoint Farm – Part 1 Prepare Windows Cluster
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over 2 years ago
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Issa Ayyash
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This part demonstrate how to configure windows cluster for two server, to be used as SQL Cluster. Before you start · You need to have two network adapters on each node, one Public and one Private(for heartbeat communication). ·...
Web Performance and Load test in VS 2010 Ultimate, Part1
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over 2 years ago
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Mohammad Hassan
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Visual studio 2010 ultimate enable you to measure, improve and verify web application performance, Web performance test and load test only shipped with VS 2010 ultimate edition, i would like to mention that i will divide this topic into serial of blogs...
Internet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID–Part 1
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over 2 years ago
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Wissam Zeidan
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In this series of post I will talk about how to allow Windows Live users to login to an internet facing SharePoint 2010 site. Most of the information can be found online, but I am putting them here in a form of a series to make it easy for who ever wants...
Internet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID – Part 2
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over 2 years ago
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Wissam Zeidan
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Overriding the Authentication Provider Selection Page In the first part of this series, we saw how we register and configure our SharePoint site to use Windows Live ID as an authentication provider. Right now our site has two authentication providers...
Migration to Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 - General Considerations
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over 2 years ago
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Ahmad Shahin
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I’m currently working on an engagement where the customer is looking for upgrading his current SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search to Fast Search for SharePoint 2010, but I was wondering if there are any issues that need to be considered during this...
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager–Part6: Software Updates (SUP)
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over 2 years ago
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Elie BouIssa
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In my previous article Part5: Software Updates (WSUS), we’ve seen the necessary steps to install WSUS for Configuration Manager. Throughout this article, we will install and configure Software update point. From the Configuration Manager console, click...
Create SharePoint 2010 Web Application using FBA (forms Based Authentication)
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over 2 years ago
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Issa Ayyash
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This blog to illustrate how to create a Forms Based Authentication for SharePoint 2010 using SQL database as users repository , users will be authenticated from SQL database instead of active directory 1. From Central Administration –> Manage...
Proxy Caching with Lazy Loading
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over 2 years ago
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Mecit Atmaca
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We can optimize proxy caching solution defined here one step ahead by leveraging lazy loading -there is always room for improvement, isn’t it? Lazy loading is one of the design patterns, which delays initialization of an object to the time when it is...
Application Catalog Role in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
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over 2 years ago
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Elie BouIssa
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During the deployment of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, I installed the Application Catalog web service point and the Application Catalog website point. While monitoring the SMS_PORTALWEB_CONTROL_MANAGER health, I found an error with message...
SharePoint 2010 Replication Scenarios
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over 2 years ago
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Issa Ayyash
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In some disconnected environments with low or instable network bandwidth, it might be necessary in such situation to deploy two or more identical SharePoint farms and perform content replication/synchronization between them. It’s important to...
Recovering Lost Mail/Mailbox Item.
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over 2 years ago
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Amr Abbas1
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Lost Mail Item / Mailbox This scenario is not a service failure but more of a user request (e.g. user requires recovering a mail item which he deleted and is no longer in the mail deleted item retention period; or a previously deleted mailbox needs...
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager–Part2: Discovery Methods
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over 2 years ago
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Elie BouIssa
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In part 1 of this series, we went over the steps to deploy a stand-alone primary site. Throughout this article, we will configure discovery methods for our primary site. From the Administration tab, expand Hierarchy Configuration and click Discovery Methods...
Protocol Bridging with Routing Services
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over 2 years ago
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Mecit Atmaca
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Introduction In this post, I will try to explain the motives behind using routing services as transport bridging with a sample solution. With references to WCF 4.0, other stuff, this will be interesting journey. Before going into details, let’s...
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager–Part3: Boundaries and Boundary Groups
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over 2 years ago
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Elie BouIssa
In my last blog article Part2: Discovery Methods , we’ve discussed the different discovery methods and how to configure these methods. We’ve also seen the Forest Discovery Method which aim to automatically create boundaries based on the discovered IP...
Migrate SharePoint 2007 My Links to SharePoint 2010
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over 2 years ago
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Mohammad Hassan
In my SharePoint Migrate project, my customer request was required to migrate Mylinks from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, we can do it by the following two steps: First Step: Deploy attached solution to create Mylinks at the new farm SharePoint...
SQL Server Cluster Upgrade: Tips for minmizing upgrade downtime and using rolling upgrade
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over 2 years ago
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Ahmed Nagy
When upgrading to another version of SQL Server, you usually choose one of the following methods... In-Place upgrade: you install the new version of SQL server on the top of an existing installation Side-by-side upgrade: You prepare a new environment...
WCF Proxy Caching
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over 2 years ago
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Mecit Atmaca
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Introduction One of the way tuning performance of WCF services is to use WCF proxy caching. There has been a long discussion on this subject. Bottom line is FW 4.0 supports caching proxies with some conditions, you may see details here . In order to call...
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