Introduction In this post I will describe a common mistake that occurs when you write your own FQL that impacts the search results that depends on Relevancy Ranking (Using Full Text Index Mapping). Scenario Lets consider that we have a list...

In this part of the series, I am going to talk about instrumenting diagnostic features for cloud services (web and worker roles) with a custom trace listener implementation in respect to new Windows Azure SDK for .NET (April 2013, version 2.0). Before...

Introduction: There is a very long and complex way to install Active Directory in Windows Azure environment described in details in Windows Azure documentation here http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/networking/active-directory-forest/...

Introduction: I observed that some IT professionals confused about System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 windows agents failover requirements, and the raised question was do I need to configure SCOM Active Directory Integration or do manual...

In previous parts I’ve explained users’ bulk creation ( Part II ) and bulk modification ( Part III ). In this part let’s talk about more advanced management tasks. Dynamic Distribution Groups: Dynamic Distribution Group (DDG) is special group created...

In a coexistence scenario, where you’re running Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 in the same organization, and your mailbox is still hosted on the Exchange 2007/2010 Mailbox server and you try to access the Exchange 2013 default...

The Scenario I wanted to implement an Azure web site that is using the Azure Access Control Service and integrates with an external identity provider to authenticate and authorize users. At first I thought of using Windows Live ID but it has a problem...

This is very famous issue when you create many Virtual Machines on Windows Azure, after deleting the VMs the virtual disks (VHD files) are still there. So far there is no way to remove these VHD files using the GUI interface, so I started to search how...

In Part II I’ve explained how to create bulk users using CSV file, and how to create the CSV file. In this part we will discuss some of the management tasks including password. Users Bulk Import with Password In Part II I’ve explained how to prepare the...

This post describes an error that occurred during System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 deployment, with two VMM servers in cluster configuration. When using the VMM Console, some users (but not all users) were unable to create VMs, even if...

Introduction As I was working with one of the projects I had a customized InfoPath Form that has 100's of fields and multiple Views. As I was going though I had a concern that a lot of these fields were not used, so how to find which fields are used...

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...

Introduction When creating the Search Service application , a default topology will be built automatically where all Search components are assigned to the server which is running the Central Administration, in multi servers farm scenario you need to...

This is a step by step guide on how to install Office Web Apps 2013 multi servers farm (using windows NLB and http) and how to configure it with SharePoint 2013. In my next post I will talk about how to configure Office Web Apps 2013 using NLB and https...

During configuring one of SharePoint 2013 farms we faced an issue when trying to list the timer job definitions using central administration, this is caused after a power failure in data center which may interrupted some provisioning activities , anyways...

Introduction In this post I will try to show you how to implement a simple paging mechanism using InfoPath 2010. This approach is useful if you are considering a quick & fast solution to handle InfoPath Repeating Tables (or sections) that returns...

After installing SharePoint 2013 farm with OWA server I’ve faced an issue when viewing excel files online, and the weird thing that it happens in excel files only! Power point and word were working 100%! Going to the discovery page for OWA located on...

In Part I we have answered the basic questions on how to have Arabic Office 365 tenant, in this article we will go through more advanced tasks in managing and administering Office 365. Users Bulk Import Creating bulk users on Office 365 can be done based...

This is a small trick that I have been doing for sometime now and wanted to share. The scenario is that you have prepared the BizTalk BAM definition and you ready to deploy it to the production environment, you run the bm.exe command and you see the situation;...

Introduction SQL Server has a feature called database mail. This feature allows the database server to send emails to any external entity using SMTP server. The problem happens if you have installed an on-premise SQL server and an online (Office 365...

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...

In this article, we will answer the following questions: - How can we use Arabic in Office 365? What fields can be Arabic? - How can we manage Arabic users? Let’s start from the beginning, company wants to utilize Office 365 and everything expected to...

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...

  Problem When you run SharePoint PowerShell on your SharePoint server you get the following error: Error: "The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered". Solution Make sure the logged in user who...

  The User Profile Synchronization service is the core of the synchronization architecture in SharePoint Server 2013. When you start the User Profile Synchronization service on the synchronization server, SharePoint Server 2013 provisions a version...