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  • 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: Using SharePoint 2010 Word Automation Services to convert Word documents to PDF files

    Ahmed Nagy
    A very interesting feature of SharePoint 2010 is the Word automation services. Word automation services allows you to convert between multiple document formats which runs as a batch job. This is very useful in many server side scenarios where customers require to archive documents, protect them from...
    on 1 May 2011

  • Blog Post: Migrating Forms Based authentication sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

    Mohamed El Ashmawi
    Migrating Forms Based authentication sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 using database attach method applies the general principles of database attach upgrade method; however, it includes some additional steps to cater for membership & roles providers. The steps for this migration are...
    on 9 May 2011

  • 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: SharePoint 2010 SP1

    Mohamed El Ashmawi
    SharePoint 2010 SP1 is almost here. It is expected by the end of June: http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/05/16/announcing-service-pack-1-for-office-2010-and-sharepoint-2010.aspx
    on 9 Jun 2011

  • 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: SharePoint 2013 Backup with PowerShell and Task Scheduler for beginners

    Yousef Omar
    You can do Everything with PowerShell - yes everything - and SharePoint is no exception. In this post for beginners, I will show you how to create tasks for the Task Scheduler to automate your SharePoint backups with PowerShell. First, to backup your farm, you can use the PowerShell command Backup...
    on 23 Feb 2013

  • 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: Why DPM 2010 and SharePoint are Better Together?

    Maged Ezzat
    Non-Microsoft backup solutions tend to take generic backup functionality and adapt it to support-specific applications. In contrast, Microsoft created DPM 2010 to leverage fully supported Microsoft technologies in order to provide continuous data protection specifically for Windows Server hosts running...
    on 3 Dec 2010

  • 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: 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: Finally Editing a ListViewWebPart View

    Mohamed M Malek
    Finally I was able to edit a newly added ListViewWebPart view by code. I know there is a lot of blogs talking about this topic but I did not find one that is complete with all the bits and pieces so when I managed to do it I decided I have to put the full picture. Adding a new ListViewWebPart is...
    on 1 Dec 2010

  • 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: Migrate users from forms based authentication to SharePoint 2010 claim based

    Ahmed Nagy
    During migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 you will need to migrate the users as well. the most "unclear" part is how to migrate Forms based users to claim based authentication. The internal names stored in SharePoint are different so you will be unable to use the old names and passwords to login...
    on 12 Mar 2011

  • Blog Post: Migrating to SharePoint Host Name Site Collections 2

    Mohamed El Ashmawi
    After the creation of host names site collections as per the script mentioned in my previous article, you might find the need to create managed path and have separate site collections for them. [Note the technet article on managed path Host Name Site Collections as it’s different than managed path...
    on 12 May 2011

  • Blog Post: Use Facebook as an Identity Provider for SharePoint 2013 – Part 4

    Zaki Shaheen
    At this stage, we are done with configuring the SharePoint Part Demo: Go to your SharePoint Site Collection you created in part 3 . From the drop down list, select Facebook Authentication You will be redacted to Facebook page to enter your credential - The good thing that you don't share your credential...
    on 6 Jun 2013

  • Blog Post: SharePoint Group Calendar, Adding default users

    Mohamed M Malek
    The Problem One feature of SharePoint is to create a calendar and make it a group calendar. This allows the user to see the schedule of list of people at the same time on the same view as per the image below. To configure the Calendar as a group Calendar you need to edit the List settings and then click...
    on 10 Apr 2013

  • Blog Post: UI Design Challenges

    Ahmad Shahin
    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 these flashy effects and try to fit them to our product...
    on 7 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Use Facebook as an Identity Provider for SharePoint 2013 – Part 2

    Zaki Shaheen
    At this stage we are done configuring the Facebook part. Continue Configuration Steps: Now we need to create a signing token certificate. This is used to sign tokens issued to SharePoint Web Applications. Open command prompt, browse to MakeCert.exe command which can be found in the \Bin folder of the...
    on 2 Jun 2013

  • Blog Post: SharePoint Provider Hosted App Walkthrough: Part 1 Preparation

    Mohamed M Malek
    SharePoint and office development model is changing to a new App model. This is the new development model for SharePoint. In this blog series I will walk you through creating a provider hosted SharePoint App that is hosted in an App part. This will show the following key features: ·         ...
    on 24 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Troubleshooting SharePoint Error: The security validation for this page is invalid

    Ahmed Nagy
    While doing custom development on SharePoint using Visual Studio, it is common to get "The security validation for this page is invalid". I give 2 simple steps to troubleshoot this issue, I assume that you did not yet go into playing with the Web Application security settings (And please do not!!).....
    on 4 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: SharePoint 2010/2013 Search Incremental crawl vs Full crawl

    Issa Ayyash
      In order to plan the Incremental and Full Crawl scenarios and schedule , I’m adding the below information in this regard:                                                                 ...
    on 18 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service: Part 4 Configure UPS Synchronization Sources

    Mohamed M Malek
    In the previous post I showed you how to deploy the BCS model for the Employee WCF service. In this post we will continue our scenario by adding the synchronization sources for the AD and the BCS WCF service. Add the Employee IDs to the AD profile This step is needed to allow the UPS to link the AD profile...
    on 6 Feb 2011