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Configure Generic ESB Receive Port – BizTalk
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over 2 years ago
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Issa Ayyash
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one of the great capabilities provided by the ESB is the ability to create a very scalable yet dynamic receive port , this port can be as generic to accept any XML message without the need to pass the itinerary , in other words we can create a web method...
Internet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID – Part 6
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over 2 years ago
by
Wissam Zeidan
Logging Out Of the Website When the user logs in to the site using Windows Live authentication, he is effectively logging in into all Windows Live powered site, examples are Hotmail, SkyDrive…etc. When logging out of the website, the decision becomes...
Internet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID – Part 5
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over 2 years ago
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Wissam Zeidan
Registration A public facing website can have services and content that it wants to make available only to users that are authenticated. In this case the user is requested to register on the website and provide some information before given access to...
Internet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID – Part 4
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over 2 years ago
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Wissam Zeidan
Creating a Custom Claims Provider When Windows Live is used as the authentication provider, anyone with a Windows Live ID can login to the website. This could be any Windows Live domain (Hotmail, live, etc..) or a custom domain hosted on Windows Live...
Internet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID – Part 3
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over 2 years ago
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Wissam Zeidan
Sharing Cookie between HTTP and HTTPS In this part of the series, I’m going to cover how to allow SharePoint to use the same authentication cookie over HTTP and HTTPS. When Windows Live authentication is used, the user is redirect to a Windows Live login...
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...
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...
Using Offline Files for IIS 7 Shared Configuration
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over 2 years ago
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Wissam Zeidan
In my previous post, we’ve seen how we can configure shared configuration for multiple IIS servers in a farm. We used a shared folder on one of the servers to save the configuration, and pointed the rest of the IIS servers to that folder. The problem...
Configuring IIS 7.5 Shared Configuration
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over 2 years ago
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Wissam Zeidan
Making a website highly available requires that it gets deployed on multiple servers so that if one server fails for some reason, the other servers can still serve the website for the users. This setup is usually called a server farm. On IIS 7, each website...
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...
Modular Web Applications with MEF
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over 2 years ago
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Wissam Zeidan
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A lot of times we are faced with a challenge of building a web application that should evolve with time. As the web application grows, maintaining and adding new functionality becomes harder and harder. Also allowing multiple teams to work on the same...
Introduction to Managed Extensibility Framework
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over 2 years ago
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Wissam Zeidan
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Most of the applications we use now a days allows you to add more functionality to it by downloading and installing additional components that extend the already installed application. These additional components could be developed by the software vendor...
Primary Site Failure and Backup Site Activation
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over 2 years ago
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Amr Abbas1
Primary Site Failure and Backup Site Activation Activation of the Disaster Recovery site begins with verification of directory services and DNS resolution. Because the DR site should already contain a directory server that is also hosting Active Directory...
Creating fine grained password policies through GUI Windows server 2012 “Server 8 beta”
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over 2 years ago
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Tamer Sherif Mahmoud
A quick description of fine grained password policies is that you can specify multiple password policies within a single domain. You can use fine-grained password policies to apply different restrictions for password and account lockout policies to different...
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...
Reset the DSRM Administrator Password
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over 2 years ago
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Amr Abbas1
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To Reset the DSRM Administrator Password Click, Start , click Run , type ntdsutil , and then click OK . At the Ntdsutil command prompt, type set dsrm password . At the DSRM command prompt, type one of the following lines: To reset the...
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...
Prepare SharePoint Farm – Part 2 Prepare SQL Cluster
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over 2 years ago
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Issa Ayyash
Part 1 - Prepare Windows Cluster Part 3 - Install and Configure NLB on WFE part 4 - Install and configure SharePoint farm (3-tier) 1. Install SQL 2008 R2 setup , make sure to select New SQL Server failover Cluster 2. Click next , until...
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). ·...
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...
Upgrade to Biztalk 2010
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over 2 years ago
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Issa Ayyash
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Introduction This blog to consider some important information when upgrading to BizTalk 2010 Upgrade roadmap For BizTalk 2006 R2 and 2009 can be upgraded directly to BizTalk 2010: Upgrade from BizTalk 2006 R2 to BizTalk 2010 Upgrade...
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...
Extracting NPS / RADIUS Accounting & Logging Information to SQL Server
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over 2 years ago
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Ahmad Shahin
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Introduction In this post I would like to go through quick steps to configure Network Access Protection to extract data to SQL Server, and describe the minimum settings needed to accomplish this task. This post has been written to reference the following...
HIS hidden gem: Disable BiDi reversal
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over 2 years ago
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Mohamed M Malek
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Recently I was working on a very complex integration project using BizTalk Server 2010 stack. This project involved integrating with legacy IBM mainframe system. The integration involved working with BizTalk Adapter for Host Applications to call Mainframe...
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...
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