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  • Blog Post: SharePoint 2010 – Failed to create the configuration database

    Yousef Omar
    Installed SharePoint Server 2010 on my Windows 7 local machine. Once the installation completed, the configuration wizard launched, reached step 3 (creating the configuration database), and halted with the following error message. Failed to create the configuration database. “An exception of...
    on 6 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Useful References - DPM 2010 for SharePoint

    Ahmad Shahin
    As I was recently working on DPM 2010 for SharePoint I complied a list of references that can be used as a quick ramp-up for this product. Hope you will find it useful. DPM 2010 for SharePoint References DPM 2010 for SharePoint Storage Calculator DPM 2010 System Requirements ...
    on 22 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: Prepare SharePoint Farm – Part 3 Prepare NLB for SharePoint Web Front End WFE Servers

    Issa Ayyash
    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 SharePoint WFE servers . however through this...
    on 29 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Permission Policies: Administering SharePoint 2010 web site without site collection administrator role

    Ahmed Nagy
    In many situations, customers have security teams and audit teams. They ask for granting users permissions to view audit web analytic reports, manage only security and permissions of users....etc. In most organizations, granting "site collection administrator" role to these teams is simply unacceptable...
    on 6 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: SharePoint 2010: Login required for opening documents

    Ahmed Nagy
    In many cases, when a user clicks on a document in a document library inside SharePoint 2010, the login dialog is displayed asking the user to authenticate. In most deployments this is not a required behaviour. To modify this, go to SharePoint 2010 Central Administration->"Application Management...
    on 28 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Renaming SharePoint 2010 Search Service Database Name

    Ahmad Shahin
    In this post I’m planning to walkthrough the practice of changing the SharePoint 2010 Search Service Database names as you might need it in the following scenarios: Replacing the Search Service Application Databases Names that Includes GUID’s to a friendlier name. The Database Admin...
    on 23 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Migrate SharePoint 2007 My Links to SharePoint 2010

    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 2010, just you need to do the following activities...
    on 14 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Upgrading from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint 2010 Part 1

    Hisham Samara
    In this post I will go through upgrading SharePoint sites from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint 2010 , I will include directions to use the most relevant upgrade approach, as start Upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint 2010 is really challenging as there is no direct path...
    on 16 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: SharePoint 2010 Replication Scenarios

    Issa Ayyash
    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 mention that SharePoint 2010 product supports natively...
    on 24 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Adding a Publishing Image Field to a SharePoint 2010 Calendar List

    Ahmad Shahin
    As I was working on customizing a SharePoint Calendar, someone asked me if it’s possible to add a Publishing Image Field to a SharePoint Calendar called “Event Image” to display the current event picture. I decided to write this post to explore the options that I have in this case....
    on 27 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: SharePoint 2010 PowerShell GUI tool

    Mohammad Hassan
    I found the following tool, developed by Microsoft team; it is very useful if you want to build SharePoint 2010 PowerShell commands for the following products: · SharePoint Foundation 2010 · SharePoint Server 2010 · Office 365 You can access this tool by the following...
    on 9 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Divisional Portal (Single vs. Multiple Site Collections)

    Ahmad Shahin
    What is Divisional Portal? A divisional portal is a SharePoint Server 2010 deployment where teams mainly do collaborative activities and some content publishing; for example it can be used for hosting an Intranet Portal with multiple Departments. In general we usual face the choice between using sites...
    on 23 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: InfoPath Forms Options in SharePoint 2010 (Step by Step Guides)

    Hisham Samara
      InfoPath is a powerful tool for creating data entry and information gathering forms; it can apply business logic to the collected data; with complex information structure. And the beauty comes when this forms technology integrates with SharePoint by providing the ability to create forms for SharePoint...
    on 14 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: InfoPath forms in SharePoint 2010 (Document based and list based forms) Step by Step samples and comparison (Part2)

    Hisham Samara
      In the previous post we have covered the document based forms; now we will use InfoPath to create the second type of list based forms to customize SharePoint 2010 List forms; this post is related to the main post of InfoPath Forms Options in SharePoint 2010 : What we will do in this post is to...
    on 18 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Walkthrough SharePoint 2010 Workflow Visualization

    Ahmad Shahin
    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 to explore the option of using one of the new...
    on 27 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Internet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID – Part 3

    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 page. After the user enters his email and password...
    on 31 May 2012

  • Blog Post: A Crash Course in Optimizing SQL Server for SharePoint

    Yousef Omar
    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 aliases for each database server in your...
    on 2 Dec 2011

  • Blog Post: InfoPath forms in SharePoint 2010 (Document based and list based forms) Step by Step samples and comparison (Part1)

    Hisham Samara
    Technorati Tags: Sharepoint.Infopath , 2010 , List based , document based , step by step Data capture Forms in SharePoint 2010 lists can be created and customized using InfoPath forms in two ways; List based Forms and Document based forms, we will cover those two types of InfoPath forms in this post...
    on 16 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Installing and configuring a 4-server SharePoint farm–a successful order

    Yousef Omar
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    on 20 Dec 2011

  • Blog Post: Understand FAST Search Logical Architecture for SharePoint 2010

    Issa Ayyash
      Architecture In this port , I’m going to talk about the FAST Search components and how they are interacting with each other , I recommend to read this article before start deploying FAST search as it should give a good guidance and understanding for your deployment plan:    FAST Content...
    on 26 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: Cleaning up specific user profile properties in SharePoint and avoid indexing them in Search

    Ahmed Nagy
    After you setup SharePoint application and "My Site" then start to import user profile, you might need to cleanup information that was imported or prevent certain properties from being displayed anywhere in your application. This would happen in a scenario where the customer figures out that the information...
    on 22 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Renaming FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Databases

    Ahmad Shahin
    As part of extending my pervious post ( Renaming SharePoint 2010 Search Service Database Name ) I’m planning to provide a walkthrough practice for changing the Database names for FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP). I will start this post by listing the FS4SP Databases, then walking through the practice...
    on 16 Sep 2013

  • Blog Post: Prepare SharePoint Farm – Part 4 Install and Configure SharePoint farm (3 -tier)

    Issa Ayyash
    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 a farm installation and configuration to meet...
    on 30 May 2012